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30 Powerful WordPress Plugins For Blog Administrators | Graphic and Web Design

joshfeck — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:35:27 +0000

A great wordpress plugin roundup. I’m going to try out the Genki Pre-publish Reminder (#16) and the Admin Notepad (#30) for leaving helpful reminders. via: 30 Powerful WordPress Plugins For Blog Administrators | Graphic and Web Design Blog -Resources And … Continue reading →

Google Does Not Use Keyword Meta Tags

joshfeck — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:00:12 +0000

Here’s a question I get asked a lot: Can’t you just add the keywords to the site with the Meta Tag? “Well, I could, but it doesn’t really work that way. Because if it did, well, everyone else would too.” My usual ineffective answer.

Matt Cutts from Google posted a nice simple video that will hopefully clear this up for the masses.

So, don’t sweat the meta tag keywords.

Readable Readability

joshfeck — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:52:21 +0000

With web applications such as Readability or (my favorite) Readable, it’s much easier to read articles on screen.
(UPDATE: Add Safari Reader to the list. A built-in browser feature FTW.)
This raises an interesting question: Why isn’t typography, more specifically readability, given more priority in web design?

At the very least, I could imagine a built-in browser feature ~~on a site~~ that would overlay the article over the page when activated (like a seamlessly integrated Readable.)

While that would be cool, it would be nice to see the news organizations, bloggers, or anyone publishing any amount of written content on the web take this into consideration. Perhaps treat it like a standard?