http://blog.fryewiles.com Thoughts on Web Design, Programming, Brand Identity, Inflatable Monkeys and Life in General Fri, 09 May 2008 20:00:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You may have noticed that we here at Frye / Wiles post in our blog a lot. Why, you ask, do we do it? Are we really that full of ourselves? Well, yes. But that's not the reason. When it comes down to it, Google (and the ... http://blog.fryewiles.com/development/05-09-2008/you-should-be-blogging 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 ... http://blog.fryewiles.com/creative-business/05-08-2008/keeping-focus 1. www.fullyillustrated.com Currently one my favorite sites for inspiration in 2D, 3D, and Design Layout. 2. www.cgsociety.org A concept-art-reference goodie bag that I dive into daily. 3. www.massiveblack.com Another source of inspiration and awe inspiring ideas. http://blog.fryewiles.com/design/creative-inspiration/05-07-2008/3-noteworthy-sites-for-creative-inspiration 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 ... http://blog.fryewiles.com/development/05-07-2008/web-tool-for-converting-text-to-utf-8 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 ... http://blog.fryewiles.com/office-nonsense/05-07-2008/7-items-to-not-spend-your-federal-rebate-check-on 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 ... http://blog.fryewiles.com/seo/05-06-2008/the-norris-group How much content do you want me to write? LOTS! Google only indexed 15% of my site, why? Because Google is like that. Google's Supplemental Index is the bane of my existence. Now that it's out in the open, we may continue. Google's Supplemental Index is best thought of as the secondary listing. It's ... http://blog.fryewiles.com/seo/05-05-2008/why-is-my-content-in-the-supplemental-index 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 ... http://blog.fryewiles.com/seo/04-15-2008/time-to-index-on-google 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. Over at SEOmoz they did some testing on what happens when links appear twice on a page. ... http://blog.fryewiles.com/seo/04-11-2008/only-the-first-link-shall-pass 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 ... http://blog.fryewiles.com/press-release/04-09-2008/the-new-goldenvoicecom-launches