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November, 2005 Archive

Email Marketing Design Guidelines

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

CampaignMonitor has put together 6 guidelines for creating marketing based email messages. These rules are useful to anyone who sends email messages for newsletters and opt-in mailing lists. The guidelines are below, and a full reasoning for each guideline can be found at the CampaignMonitor Blog.

Never use images for important content like headlines, links and [...]

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Instant Development Network

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

We completed the cre824 competition this morning. Our submission came out great, and we somehow managed to complete everything we set out to accomplish. My favorite piece of the competition was our development environment, which we set up the night before.
The central piece of a good development environment is a centralized, version controlled [...]

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Sitening Arrives In Chattanooga To Compete In An International Web Design Contest

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

The Sitening team arrived in Chattanooga tonight for the cre824 24 hour web design contest. The winner of the contest will travel to Paris to compete against teams from all over the world. Here’s a pic of Freddie, Scott and Ryan setting up equipment for the competition.

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Google On The Verge Of Taking Out Multiple Industries

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

The introduction of Google Base comes only 2 days after its annihilation of the web statistics industry. Google Base is a direct text input system that collects information on a variety of items. At the time of this writing, they include:

Course Schedules
Event and Activities
Jobs
News and Articles
People Profiles
Products
Recipes
Reference Articles
Reviews
Services
Vehicles
Wanted Ads

Left alone, Google Base wouldn’t seem all [...]

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Sitening Enters Flash Contest, But Refuses To Use Flash

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

Stupid? Maybe. Radical? Possibly. Insane? Most definitely.
Web design has been hijacked. It’s been hijacked by designers who use proprietary software that locks out users with disabilities, search engine bots, and often times good clean navigation and design. Yet, the web design community seems to be totally unaware of web standards, SEO, and web accessibility.
Many web [...]

Posted in Web Accessibility, Web Design | 2 Comments »

Goodbye Webalizer, Hello Google Analytics!

Monday, November 14th, 2005

Google Analytics was announced today, and it’s a big step forward for webmasters and web metrics.
Urchin, which Google bought earlier this year and used as a foundation for Analytics, was a nice product. A little expensive, but the reports were definitely a step ahead of the competition. The installation was hideous, though, [...]

Posted in Contextual Advertising, Google Adsense, Linux, Open Source, SEO, Strategy, Website Marketing | No Comments »

Linux Router - IP Forwarding

Monday, November 14th, 2005

If you want to use Linux for routing, you need to activate IP forwarding. After you’ve configured your kernel, you have to do this:
echo “1″ > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
Of course, you want this to happen when you boot. You can do this anywhere in your boot scripts, but there are already some facilities to handle [...]

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96,000 Reasons to Mine Your Data

Friday, November 11th, 2005

I just read a story in the paper about the local high school. They received a $96,000 correction to their natural gas bill after 8 years of service, “due to billing error at Harpeth High School.”

Apparently, most gas customers in our area have meters that read in 100’s of cubic feet. Therefore the [...]

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Going Tableless: Why CSS Should Be Used For Layouts

Monday, November 7th, 2005

There seems to be an ongoing battle between web designers about the use of tables in web layouts. Proponents for using tables refer to browser compatibility and quicker design time. While opponents claim that using tables for layouts doesn’t adhere to web standards and web accessibility. In order to better understand how this controversy got [...]

Posted in CSS, Web Accessibility, Web Design | 32 Comments »