Blog Design Madness Final Round: Cast Your Vote to Determine the Champion!
Published April 10th, 2008 in Competition - 7 Comments
The Blog Design Madness tournament has reached the final round! The remaining two competitors have made it through five rounds of head-to-head matchups with some of the best blog designs you will find anywhere. The two Final Four matchups couldn’t have been any tighter. N. Design Studio squeaked past Blog Design Blog 57 to 56, and Elliot Jay Stocks edged Kineda 45 to 44. (You can go back through the past rounds here.) Thanks to everyone who has been voting throughout the tournament. Please take a moment to vote and determine the champion! The poll is set to close at 11:59 PM Saturday, Eastern Time (US).
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Sitemaps, Their Purpose, and Some Helpful Resources to Create Your Own
Published April 9th, 2008 in Tools - 19 Comments
Sitemaps are a great tool for both web designers and visitors. Of course, there are two different types of sitemaps, 1) XML sitemaps (also known as Google sitemaps) and 2) HTML sitemaps. Each type serves its own purpose.
An HTML sitemap can be used effectively to increase the usability of a website by providing a page that links out to every page on the site (or at least to the major pages, depending on the size of the site). Navigation is of course one of the most important aspects to creating a user-friendly site, and when visitors aren’t able to easily find what they are looking for, many will turn to a sitemap. As a result, the HTML sitemap can help to keep visitors on your site by showing them where to find specific information. Additionally, because the sitemap links to all of the other pages on the website, they can be helpful to search engine spiders as they are crawling through the site.
Blog Design Madness: Final Four
Published April 7th, 2008 in Competition - 9 Comments
It’s down to the Final Four in the Blog Design Madness tournament. Please take a moment to vote using these two polls. The finals will be later this week. Thanks for your participation!
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Kineda
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Ranking 80 of the Top CSS Galleries
Published April 6th, 2008 in Galleries - 141 Comments
Web design and CSS galleries are a great source of inspiration for designers, and they are also an outstanding resource for designers to get exposure for their work. Getting a site featured in some of the most popular galleries can bring thousands of visitors and some valuable inbound links.
There are so many different galleries that it’s hard to know which ones are worth the time it takes to submit your site for inclusion. If you’re going to take the time to submit one of your designs to some galleries you might as well submit to those that will give you the best results.
Blog Design Madness – Only 8 Remain
Published April 5th, 2008 in Competition - 7 Comments
We’re down to just 8 remaining contestants in the Blog Design Madness tournament. Please take a moment to vote for your 4 favorites. This round will end Sunday at 9:00 PM – Eastern (US). Thanks again for your participation!
GROUP 1
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Which Social Networks Provide the Best Design-Related Content?
Published April 2nd, 2008 in Social Media - 20 Comments
For those of us that enjoy and appreciate reading great articles on web design and development, we’re fortunate to have access to a vast amount of quality information. Of course, subscribing to blogs is one of the best ways to stay up-to-date with the best content available, but most of us can’t manage a feed reader full of every post on web design.
Social networking and social media sites are a great alternative, as they give you an opportunity to quickly find information that other users have submitted and appreciated. But with so many social media sites to choose from, monitoring them can be just as time consuming as subscribing to hundreds of blog feeds.
Blog Design Madness: Round 3
Published April 1st, 2008 in Competition - 12 Comments
We’re down to just 16 competitors in the Blog Design Madness competition! The voting for this round will be open until Wednesday at 9:00 PM Eastern (US), so please take a moment to vote for the designs that you like best. Thanks to everyone that has been voting and commenting on the other rounds. Stay tuned over the next few days as the tournament will be winding down. (You can see the results from round 2 here)
GROUP 1
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