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Today will mark the first day of the two-day Dallas Digital Summit (#DDSum12). As I sit and ponder all of the events, conventions, and summits I have been to across my technology career, I wonder what makes those events special and fruitful—I wonder what will make the first-annual Dallas Digital Summit different from all others? What makes them good? Information that would not ordinarily be available or understood through SlideShare, Go-To-Meeting, […Read More]
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Advanced Web Ranking SEO Tool Review
Advanced Web Ranking SEO Tool Review There are a lot of SEO tools out there, but very few could scale to the needs of my agency at an affordable price point. We were using IBP and another cloud based solution. With an ever increasing client base, IBP was starting to show it’s limitations. I gave Advanced Web Ranking a try and came away with a tool I can definitely use […Read More]
Marketing and The 4-Hour Workweek: A Commentary Without Data, Information, or Useful Tips. A Thanksgiving Treatise
Reader Beware: If you are a Marketing Manager, an Ad Executive, a Social Media Coordinator, a Search Engine Strategist, a Web Developer, a Creative Designer, or another student of the rarely glamorous, often thankless field of goalpost-moving metrics, management, and ideas we call marketing… read on. If not, I would suggest spending your next several minutes watching this short video of a surprised cat. The brave read on… Timothy Ferriss […Read More]
Responsive Web Design: Fluid Images
This is the fourth and final part of the series of posts I’ve been writing over the past few months about responsive web design techniques. So far, we’ve covered the basics of what responsive web design is: the fluid grid and CSS3 media queries. Seemingly, our responsive site is complete. However, there is one key component missing in our site: fluid images. Sure, our site responds to the size of […Read More]
What Daniel Day-Lewis’s Method Acting Can Teach Writers
Daniel Day-Lewis is known for his method acting. He goes to extremes — which can sometimes bridge on dangerous — in order to fully experience the role he’s cast to play, including his role as President of the United States in Lincoln, opening today. Here are a few of his other famous method acting techniques: In Gangs of New York (2002, dir. Martin Scorsese), Day-Lewis took butchering lessons from a […Read More]
Using WordPress Custom Post Type Templates in a Plugin
If you’re a developer and have worked with WordPress, chances are you have used custom post types. When I started customizing WordPress I found myself using custom post types in themes frequently. Applying a custom template is easy since page templates also typically go in the theme directory. So what happens when you’re writing a plugin and want to use a template for your custom post type? You can stick […Read More]
Developing a Project Set-Up for Developers
In my last post, I mentioned I wanted to talk about developing a project workflow as a developer. However, after thinking about it for some time, my original intentions were not to say which systems you should or shouldn’t use or which ones I thought might be the best. I’m still exploring those types of things myself. What I really wanted to talk about was what steps you might take […Read More]
How Doctor Who and Quantum Physics Can Help with Your SEO Content Writing
In honor of fellow sci-fi fans gearing up for Halloween, I wanted to talk about the longest-running science fiction television show in the world. That’s right folks; I’m talking about Doctor Who. But what in the world does Doctor Who have to do with content writing? More than you know. Doctor Who has become a worldwide sensation through TV, the Internet and word of mouth, and while most content won’t […Read More]
WINfographics!
Infographics Can Entertain, Inform & Go Viral In a time crunch and needing to come up with an interesting blog post while juggling several other deadlines, I gave some thought (at least 47 minutes) to the subject of time management. This is sometimes the bane of my personal existence, spawning many nightmares over the years. What could be a better topic for a pre-Halloween blog? I’ll tell you what’s better: […Read More]
Word Choice Tips for Stronger SEO Content
Choosing the Right Word The main goal of an SEO content writer is two-fold: keep readers on the page and entice them to act. This is done by providing readers with relevant information related to their search and presenting it in a way that’s easy to find, easy to read, and easy to understand. When writing is informative and well-written, readers are more engaged in what you have to say, […Read More]