Links for 13 October 2007

posted by John Lampard on Saturday, 13 October, 2007 to the disassociated subset

SEO vs. SMO: that is Search Engine Optimisation verses Social Media Optimization. That is how can you best prepare your blog so you receive the best levels of traffic from places like Google and Stumbleupon. A great article by Steven Snell of Vandelay Website Design.
Verbalized.net is the rather easy on the eye blog of Sara, a fourth year university student, who is studying business. “I enjoy finding humour in nearly everything. I smile almost constantly and Iâ€™m prone to breaking into fits of silent laughter at inopportune times.” All personal websites used to be like this…
Mobile Web Design: ah, the new frontier, web standards and design for mobile devices. Download a free chapter from Cameron Moll’s new book!
30 Usability Issues To Be Aware Of: did you know about the Three Click Rule? If website visitors cannot find what are looking for after three mouse clicks, they will most likely leave the site. Then there’s another 29 items designers need to be aware of.
Usability: More than Skin Deep at Web Directions: an excellent post on Lisa Herrod’s presentation at this year’s Web Directions South conference. “User experience design is by definition incomplete unless it takes accessibility into account at every stage of a project.”
Price setting: How to decide what to charge Some advice for those new to freelancing, or who have started their own business. “Price setting is tricky for new soloists to master. Do you charge on a project, daily or hourly basis? Do you base your pricing on what others charge, what youâ€™d like to earn or what you think the market and/or prospect will bear?”
The Carnival of Satire, #85, features my recent Star Wars mick take post. Meanwhile the Carnival of Australia features my BlogRush post, and how to make it big with widgets!
The E-Mail Undertow new at Jugglezine. “In 2006, the average corporate e-mail user received 126 e-mail messages per day, a 55 percent increase since 2003 – and it’s only gotten worse.” To think that figure excludes verifiable spam…
Helping your client maintain markup quality: it’s one thing to code a website correctly using web standards, but what happens when you handover the site to a client? Especially, if as can likely be the case, their standards knowledge is a little patchy. Roger Johansson has a few ideas…
63 Constructive Opinions on the Best Way to Make Money Online: since I just can’t stop talking about making online, here’s another 63 opinions on the subject, presented by Dosh Dosh.