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From the smoke and rubble of the failed dot-com-bubble era emerged 3 contenders for the search crown. (4 if you count that interesting blip on the radar - Ask)  Each hungrily stockpiled features and tested innovative ideas in hopes of building an arsenal that would grant them superiority. Like the real life cold-war, smaller web [...]

Apparently a little creative math + Photoshop + a Blogspot account goes a long way. The guys over at the Logologos blog have some interesting ideas about the origins of some pretty recognizable logos.  I found this through a post from logo designer David Airey over at the LogoDesignLove.com blog recently. Some of my favorites include the Apple logo equation [...]

I just love typography and the depth to which one can obsess about the nuances of type face, kerning and stroke weight. I’ve always been envious of the clever way that designers incorporate typography into their design. Due to the small number of cross-platform web friendly fonts we see less typography creativity online than in print, [...]

It’s no secret - Google is the most widely used search engine in the marketplace. Hitwise has tracked  search engine usage over the years (amongst other things) and their data shows a steady increase in Google usage. [ 2007 hitwise report with 2006 data ] Who is Losing? So with Google’s increase in popularity who is losing users? [...]

As SEOers we’re constantly weighing the value of one phrase against another to determine which phrases to write & optimize around. There have been a number of tools out there which have helped us in our quest to find the best phrases - in fact we’ve probably all used the now defunct Overture Tool, or Word [...]

While I love my PhotoShop CS3, there are times when I need to edit images when I’m away from my house where I have it installed. Often I want to edit an image for a PowerPoint presentation at work, or a forum/blog posting - so I got to looking around and found 10 online image [...]

Lovers of typography rejoice! Here are 5 great free font resources, with enough free fonts to inspire & equip even the most addicted typophile - at least for a while!

You may remember when Google took a step towards transparency in early 2007 when they started laying out tips on the ‘how’ & ‘why’ of using a robots.txt file in their January post “Controlling how search engines access and index your website“, followed by “The Robots Exclusion Protocol” in February, and another mid-year follow-up that [...]

In case you haven’t noticed - Google is crawling JavaScript these days. Yah, I know. Just when you think you’ve pretty much got it all figured out, Google has to go and mix it up a bit. With their continued shift toward more intrusive crawling, Google has been striving to pierce the JavaScript veil and [...]