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Posted by Archa [web developer]
Posted on 05-08-2008 under Creative Business

Photo courtesy of cboyack

Throughout the day of fast paced and sometimes frustrating world of web development, I find myself sometimes less focused on the task at hand. I don’t know if it’s because I’m getting older and I developed AADHD, or hopefully it’s just the case of not staying focused.

Thanks to my co-worker Julian Sutter, he sent over a link from Zen Habits that helps with maintaining focus on the job. Such examples are: Take more breaks (my personal favorite, maybe not for Rob or Nate), make tasks that you can check off, and turning off extra inputs such as RSS feeds like from Digg (I am totally guilty of this).

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Posted by Dani [designer]
Posted on 05-07-2008 under Creative Inspiration

1. www.fullyillustrated.com

Currently one my favorite sites for inspiration in 2D, 3D, and Design Layout.

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Posted by Julian [designer]
Posted on 05-07-2008 under CSS/HTML Markup, Development

Plugging content into a website is the most monotonous part of web design. Most of the time its apple-c from word, apple-v to html, Rinse Repeat. One secret weapon though is to use a converter for the text so that all the garbled up entities from word don’t slip into your html.

This HTML UTF-8 Entity Encoder is what we use to make sure that our text is clean when we drop it in the HTML.

Just paste your text in, convert, copy the clean text and paste that in your html doc. That simple.

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Posted by Nate [operations director]
Posted on 05-07-2008 under Office nonsense

So George W. Bush has decided that what our sluggish economy really needs is for nearly everyone to get thrown a couple monetary bones to spend on ‘stuff’. This is intended to drive our economy as people are encouraged to go out and spend the $300 or $600 or whatever it is, on commercial products you don’t need. In honor of the bountiful sum that most of us are about to receive, I’ve listed 7 items that you, the mid to late-twenties male such as myself, might be tempted to blow all your hard earned government monies on, but shouldn’t.

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Posted by Rob [creative director]
Posted on 05-06-2008 under SEO

Most people don’t know that we here at Frye / Wiles do quite a number of purely Search Engine Optimization (SEO) projects - that is, taking existing sites (often sites that we didn’t even design), and making them rank on Google / Yahoo / Etc. This is an important and very valuable service, for a number of reasons.

1. Google owns the world.
2. Search marketing is increasingly the most effective way to spend your marketing dollar.
3. Most websites, especially those NOT designed by Frye / Wiles in the first place, are not built correctly to show up when people search for you or your industry.

With that introduction out of the way, we’re happy to announce our latest happy SEO customer. As a California Real Estate Investment resource, The Norris Group benefits immensely from search returns. They came to Frye / Wiles when the site they built internally was not returning on their desired search terms. We streamlined their code, brought them into conformity with standard SEO practices, and worked with them to flesh out valuable parts of their site and content. SEO is a long process, so it’s too early to start giving you statistics, but if history is any indicator of success, the Norris Group will now begin the glorious process in increasing natural search traffic! We wish them the best, and will report back with new information as it becomes available.

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Posted by Julian [designer]
Posted on 05-05-2008 under SEO

How much content do you want me to write?

LOTS!

Google only indexed 15% of my site, why?

Because Google is like that.

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Posted by Julian [designer]
Posted on 04-15-2008 under SEO

I have probably typed site:www.fryewiles 10 times today alone (Site:www.yoururl.com returns every page indexed of your site). Reason? We just launched a large amount of new content last week, and It’s my job to keep track of the search progress. Truth is that it’s become a nervous tick of sorts. Why is it taking so long to index? Well the best answer I have, is the same one I tell all our clients. It can take a long time for new content to index, that’s just how it is.

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Posted by Julian [designer]
Posted on 04-11-2008 under SEO

If a link is appearing more than once on a page, it will not pass PageRank value after the first time it appears.  Use rel=”nofollow” to pass value with only your most valuable link.

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Posted by Rob [creative director]
Posted on 04-09-2008 under Press Release

All of us here at Frye / Wiles are very proud to announce that the new Goldenvoice.com is live!  Goldenvoice is a big name in the live music industry, and we’re very excited to have had the opportunity to redevelop and redesign this important site.  For a complete writeup on what we did, see our new portfolio page.

We wish Goldenvoice the best of luck with their new site.

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Posted by Rob [creative director]
Posted on 04-07-2008 under Press Release

As part of our continuing relationship with Merch.com, we are excited to announce the Merch.com Blog Your Way To Coachella contest.  This innovative contest is aimed solely at people running blogs, and it couldn’t be more simple - Create a blog post about the new Merch.com.  Send the link to the Merch.  The most creative post will be selected and the winner will receive a all-expenses-paid VIP weekend at Coachella Music and Arts Festival! Pretty sweet!

For more information, check out the contest page on Merch.com, and happy blogging!