Archive for June, 2007

Friday Fun: SEO Clout Challenge

By Andrew Faulkner on June 29th, 2007.

Welcome to Friday Fun. If it’s not Friday where you live then please do not start legal proceedings.

I’ve seen and used many ways to measure the SEO clout of a website/page over the years that I’ve been involved in SEO. From the old classic of checking the Pagerank of a …

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Content Extraction

By Steve Rose on June 27th, 2007.

For me, one of the most challenging parts of web development is the discovery phase, or more specifically, getting the content out of my clients. With four out of five of them it’s like pulling teeth. Sometimes I have to wait for five or six months before they eventually give …

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Back from hols

By Andrew Faulkner on June 25th, 2007.

Hello, I’m back. Hurrah, I here you cry.

I see things resumed as normal round here while I was away so I’d like to thank Matt Davies for fadsitting (and for a great Apple redesign post.) Without him, you’d probably be staring at a gazillion comments about Viagra.

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A Bite Of The Apple / Apples New Website

By Matt Davies on June 20th, 2007.

The New Website
Apple have redesigned their website and what a superb example of a good redesign it is. In this post we would like to take a little look at the new design and what has been done to move it on. Here is an example of the …

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Away and Bug Squashing

By Andrew Faulkner on June 12th, 2007.

As you may have seen from the wee banner at the top, I’m on a break from Thu 14 Jun - Mon 25 Jun so things may get a little untidy/stale around here. It’s OK though, fadtastic will function as normal under the capable hands of Matt Davies aka Mr …

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Submitting Asides

By Andrew Faulkner on June 10th, 2007.

Fadtastic.net are now allowing registered readers to submit asides (visible only to registered users in the sidebar.)

Submit an aside →

If you don’t already have an account, why not sign up and submit an aside or two today?
Asides Policy

Feel free to add an aside which gives a bit …

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25 Ways To Improve Your Site Today

By Andrew Faulkner on June 10th, 2007.

Yes, the title may look like this post should be on an amateur blog and that it will be full of references to clip art and animated gifs, but this is serious. I’ve compiled a list of what I think are 25 ways to improve your website in as little …

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Swirling in Style (and ‘elements’ in design)

By Andrew Faulkner on June 7th, 2007.

It’s been a while since I last wrote about particular graphical touches. So let’s get back to graphic design trends (a topic which I know many of you love) - those cute little design styles that can make or break a site. Whilst browsing a few web design galleries …

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Keeping You Updated: 3rd June 07

By Andrew Faulkner on June 3rd, 2007.

A quick update on what’s changed around the site. I’m busy improving the usability and user experience of fadtastic (an ongoing project really) and thought you may like to know what’s changed.

Asides (members only - why not sign up?) are now more logical,  linking straight to the source. Permalinks/comments are …

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Brand Review: Identity for Celebrity / Kate Moss

By Matt Davies on June 1st, 2007.

Model Agency Storm has employed interesting marketing tactics in regard to Kate Moss’s growing popularity. Love her, or hate her, she is one of Britain’s most famous celebrities and a woman of the moment. Not surprisingly she is now starting to endorse product ranges and cash in on this popularity …

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