Random rants and miscellaneous mewsings on nothing, the internet, culture, food, cats and life in a foreign country … in three languages; English, Spanish and Rubbish.
New here? If you’d like to be notified of new content, simply subscribe to my RSS feed or sign up for email alerts. Thanks for visiting!Now, I must admit that I am perfectly capable of installing scripts and building my own forms - BUT - I have become so fed up with the extra […]
As reported recently, Commission Junction upset their publishers when they announced that they were changing their links to use Javascript code. This is now what is served up as default, reports Jimmy Daniels at ReveNews. If you want regular html code, it is still there - under the description of Legacy Code - but you […]
Following on from the last post, here’s further confirmation that people pay scant attention to graphic ads. Reporting from the Nielsen/Norman Group’s Usability Week in San Francisco, Laura Ruel says, “Users seem to “zone out” ads and other site elements that have clearly distinguishable ad features such as graphics and colors that make the ads […]
No, they cannot be serious … a whole blog dedicated to cats that look like Hitler?
But it’s true, there really is and, as you can see from the above, I have one with a little black moustache and the thought had crossed my mind. Please note, I did not say it out loud. Even […]
Did it really require a study to discover that men tend to fixate on exposed bits of anatomy? Laura Ruel at Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits reports on the results of various eyetracking studies that show what images attract viewers and which can be erroneously tuned out.
What Makes Web Images Attractive
This MarketingSherpa Case Study, which includes delivery test results is certain to be of interest to many of you: “Gorgeous Web site design, compelling testimonials and pages of scientific fact can only do so much. Many consumers — especially women researching healthcare options — won’t trust you enough to purchase on their first visit. But, […]
You will, no doubt, this week have caught wind of the news that Google is testing a Cost Per Action model on the Google AdSense network. This program is invite only at this time - for both advertisers and publishers - so this may be fairly academic to most of us right now, however, Jensense […]
An interesting idea that is starting to gain some attention is the idea of blogsitting, a service that would connect bloggers with a bit of extra free time, looking for exposure to blogs where the primary writer is taking a break, but does not want the site to do the same.
Blogsitter Via: Blogging Pro
Website owners will want to know about a raft of new features Google have just released for Google Sitemaps, including a robots.txt analysis tool, quick snapshot of the status of your site in the index, notification of violations of the webmaster guidelines and an easy-to-use re-inclusion request form.
A Sitemaps update
Here’s a cutesy pie - I can’t show you because I can’t steal their image go here - that reminds me of the time “we” volunteered to take in the school hamster one holiday. For reasons still unclear to me 40 years later, my mother didn’t want it to hibernate, so she decided to keep […]