Archive for May, 2008

Bad Friday

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Today was just one of those days. I got a mysterious email from a client. All it said was tell sion the bad news. This worried me. I waited for a follow up email but none came. What bad news? Argh! Last night our beloved neighbours plopped a ton of stuff into the hallway that

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The Top Question My Clients Ask Me

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So look at your website. Is your home page just an image? Is there any kind of actual content in text on it? What about in the alt text for the lone image? The title text? Nothing? This isn’t helping.
Look at your navigation. Is it made up of javascript rollovers? Is it an image map? Is it an image map with no alt text with the actual href attributes in them? No? Also not helping.
On your home page,did you include anything in actual text that relates (in a keyword rich kind of way) to the product or service you want to sell? Nah? Totally not helping.

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NetFlix Rentals and Disappointment

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The remake of Day of the Dead starring Mena Suvari and Vingh Rhames didn’t impress me.Watching the movie you could tell that all they we thinking about was “Let’s turbocharge those zombies”.Failing yet again to grasp what is so effective about authentic zombies in the first place: they’re slow,yeah, but they add up fast and

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NetFlix Rental: Shameless Season 1, Disc 1

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I’ve tried watching this show on Sundance but it’s just too hard to follow a show that seems to air at 3am. So NetFlix to the rescue.I was disappointed that disc one contains only 4 episodes but it was great to see how the whole Fiona and Steve thing got going. I’d seen episodes from

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