In keeping with its animal theme, Google announced a major update with a fierce attack that has hurt thousands of blogs, websites, and online businesses. If you have yet to hear of Google Penguin, you are likely new to the online arena or living under a rock, but it is one of Google’s most important […]
Google releases hundreds of under the radar refinements and updates to their search algorithms each and every year. The majority of these updates are minute changes that go relatively unnoticed. The significant upgrades, however, are widely covered by bloggers and large news outlets alike due to the substantial impact they have at every level across […]
If your WordPress site has received a Google Webmaster Tools notification that your site has mobile usability issues there are a couple of possible culprits. The first and most obvious is that your site isn’t responsive. If that’s the case, you can switch to a responsive wordpress theme OR hire a developer to make your […]
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How Can You View a Development Site in WordPress When it Has a Different IP Address? Building a website in WordPress for a client that already has an existing and active website, but who also wants to move to another hosting account is as easy as it gets. The advantage to building a site this […]
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(licensed for reuse, credit to artist: The electrician by Lemondjinn) HAL 9000, Skynet, and Agent Smith. Malevolent AI is a well explored trope in both film and literature, one that’s been around long before computers were even a thing. The first reference to an “information generating machine” appears way back in 1726 in Gulliver’s Travels […]
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The farther we travel into the digital age, the clearer it becomes that mobile computing is the single most disruptive technology to the paradigm of the 20th century. With the sum of all human knowledge at our fingertips—wherever we go—it’s impossible not to feel at least a little overwhelmed, on occasion. That’s why the design […]
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Noticed Google testing a new auto loan calculator in SERPS. They’ve had a general purpose calculator for years now, started testing a mortgage calculator about a year ago, and it appears they started testing the auto payment calculator on Thanksgiving & are showing it on and off to some portion of their visitors for the […]
Anticipatory design is a term coined by the CEO of the Huge creative design agency, Aaron Shapiro, that connotes an elimination of the decision fatigue as the next ideal to be reached in web and product design. One example he cites, in his manifesto on the subject, is an application that automatically books a flight […]
A description of purpose, implementation, and utility of micro interactions as well as a gallery of good looking examples. “Big” is, and has always been, made up of lots of small. Just as a multitude of sand makes up a beach, dozens of contact points between user and UI make up a pleasant user experience. […]
http://theollybanks.deviantart.com/art/Another-Creative-404-page-209339620 Nothing’s worse than searching for a page that isn’t there. Frankly, bluntly, and in all other ways candid: hitting a 404 page usually sucks. There are, however, some creative methods one can employ to make the frustrating 404 experience suck a little less. Humorous attempts have been made by imaginative webmasters all over the […]