Just spotted this. A nice example of a friendly error message. Friendly error messages amke a big difference to the user experience, they’re fun, and they help give the website (brand) a personality.
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Twitter Error Page – Friendly Error Page Example
January 31st, 2008 — Uncategorized
Learn the lingo – Venture Capital Glossary
January 27th, 2008 — VC Funding
If you’re a web based startup looking for VC funding you’ll need to know your Seed Capital from your elbow. Here’s a list of commonly used terms used by VCs and what they mean. Continue reading →
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Macbook Air Feature Comparison Table
January 22nd, 2008 — Humour, Technology
I was stunned and astounded when I first laid on eyes on the Macbook Air. You have to admire Apple’s bold, forward thinking. There’s been a lot of debate in our office about the fact that it doesn’t have this and it doesn’t have that. Of course the Apple Fanboys are chanting Apples’ mantras – “it’s built for the wireless world” etc. Personally I think if you need mobile computing it’s great, want a desktop replacement? Go Pro. Continue reading →
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Adding a Google Sitemap cannot hurt your rankings – it’s official
December 7th, 2007 — Google
To give Google a Sitemap or to not give Google a sitemap? That is the question. For a longtime there’s been a lot of hear say flying around about the potential damage Sitemaps can do to your websites rankings. Damage reported by webmasters include pages going supplemental and rankings dropping. Continue reading →
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Use the noscript tag to hide links from visitors and Rank number 1 in Google
November 29th, 2007 — SEO
Google has been going crazy with FUD about paid links, slapping some high profile sites and networks along the way. Matt Cutts recently posted about finding cloaked websites. Well Google great job at finding spammers, NOT!
I regularly reverse engineer peoples SEO. You have to admit it’s fun to tear apart someones linking strategy and then copy it analyse it. I pay particular interest to inbound links to sites for obvious reasons. I’m pretty sick of seeing inbound links appearing in noscript blocks that do not appear on the page (and I’m trying real hard not to out a couple a few examples). Especially as they seem to carry some weight and are passing on link juice. Using noscript for SEO is nothing new, it’s been used for yonks to to make spider readable content not appear to users .
So come on Google get wise to it. How hard can it be? All you have to do is discount a link if it doesn’t appear in the body of the page but does appear in the noscript block. Google should be concentrating less on FUD and Webmaster PR and more on solving problems with intelligent solutions.
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