Design mistakes 101: What happened to Paypal’s logo?

Design mistakes 101: What happened to Paypal’s logo?

In an industry where design is a key differentiator as well as the all-encompassing key to online legitimacy, you’d think companies, and big companies at that, would get re-designs/re-branding right, yes? Well, not exactly!
It’s not exactly today’s news, but I felt compelled to at least discuss this. Internet giant, PayPal, son of another Internet giant, [...]

Google knols best: Wikipedia killer or just seven years too late?

Google knols best: Wikipedia killer or just seven years too late?

In what seems to be another ‘idea’ that Google hopes to sell as ‘changing the way people look for information online’, the California-based search giant is testing a “free tool” that they’re calling “knol”, which apparently stands for a unit of knowledge. Pardon the pun, but a bit grassy in my opinion!
Not only does [...]

How to build a website in six easy steps

How to build a website in six easy steps

For most web designers/web developers, building a website comes naturally. You design it, code it, and launch it. Right? Wrong! The practice of building a website may have got justifiably shorter (or longer) depending on how you see things working online - but the theory/trick behind a good site build still stands: Planning, planning and [...]

5 Wordpress plugins to boost your search engine ranking and help with SEO

5 Wordpress plugins to boost your search engine ranking and help with SEO

Wordpress has rewritten the rules for what can be achieved online with a blogging application. Not only is Wordpress these days used as more than just a blogging engine, the popularity of the software package as can be seen by the Google Trends chart below
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However, the great thing about Wordpress is that it [...]

Google Trends: Search trends updated daily - What you need to know Part 1

Google Trends: Search trends updated daily - What you need to know Part 1

Our good friend Google just keeps making our search experience richer, more fulfilling, and above all more and more accurate. In the joy of celebrating the holiday season with online goodies, Google loves to deliver applications such as Google Trends ‘fresh out the lab’ - the proverbial Lab that is; where Google seem to [...]