The annual event held at Earls Court in London, saw many more people attending the event than last years.. Over 3000 people filled the venue each day.
Also probably the least geekiest web event to attend in the web industry calendar.
I attended on the wednesday, when I saw the following presentations:
or “ethical ways of making your business or freelance life more eco-friendly” and save costs at the same time.
I thought I would compile a list, as the topic of ethical business has been in conversation recently with colleagues at the Brighton Farm and Vine Brighton.
I’m hoping my ideas will save you money, as well as making you become more aware of the resources you use, and the importance of our individual impact on our local and international ecosystems.
Here’s the list:
.. and useful web services in a web 2.0 environment
want some quick tips on how to increase your productivity? Want to save less time trying to find the information you ‘filed’ last week?
Some are free, some are a few pounds, all well worth checking out to see of they can help you, like they have with me.
They are all about sharing, storing and using information efficiently:
So the Times Online redesign went live last week.
It was an exciting project to work on, I was based in Canary Wharf working with 2 other developers, 4 Information Architects, 3 Designers, a Content Management team, and countless management types.
I was involved at a early stage in the project life cycle in August 2006. My role was to take the illustrator designs and code them into templates showing the individual modules for each element in the design. Of course, validating and browser testing went along side this. And each module was given a timescale score depending on its complexity.
I was with the team for a month during which time I completed the front end build for all the main sections of the site: news, sport, fashion, motoring.. The job became quicker once the initial elements were built as they could be reused in other sections of the sites pages.
It’s a forever changing job being a SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) copywriter, regarding the changing algorithms and indexing techniques by the major search engines.
The information in this post can help your copywriting become a trusted source for Google and potentially aid in increasing your rankings. Google uses many factors to determine the relevance and trustworthiness of copy. These are just a few.
Most newcomers to copywriting start by reading the blog posts of Matt Cutts began to explain that Google uses many factors (other than PageRank) to evaluate and rank pages. Matt continues to describe the use of keywords and their relationships to other page factors.
For instance, let’s say one keyphrase you’re working with in your copy is “flat monitor.” Keyphrases work best when all the words remain in their exact order. That is, when you use the entire phrase “flat monitor” as opposed to using only the single words “flat” and “monitor” individually. Matt confirms this by saying relevance and trust might be increased in Google’s eyes when the words “flat” and “monitor” are used next to each other.
Why would it matter? cont’d..
Lots of new people, especially new clients and consumers get confused by what a programmer is, and what a person like me - a “front end web developer“, oh and im a freelancer too..
To save me writing down more titles, acronyms, etc.. I found a great article at Chris Heilmans site www.onlinetools.org/articles/fed2.html
This is a very straight forward way of getting extra revenue from your web site.
I can see this would be of use to various people who write books, and want more than just an image link on their homepage, this is a whole new site dedicated to selling books on Amazon.
All you have to do is register at the Amazon Associates General site. Choose “a-store”, select the colours, text and books, then you are given a link to put on your site. All the hosting for the A-store is done by Amazon.
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