24 Ways 2008

For me the 1st December is exciting not because I get to eat chocolate everyday for the next month (ish) but the excellant 24 ways is back.

24 ways is the advent calendar for web geeks. Each day throughout December we publish a daily dose of web design and development goodness to bring you all a little Christmas cheer.

Previous years have seen first class tutorials and tips from some of the top minds in web development today including Paul Boag, Cameron Moll, Veerle Pieters and Jonathan Snook

It really is beginning to feel like Christmas!

Beginners Guide to SEO

Apparently to appease the numerous requests at conferences, Google has helpfully released their internal guide to SEO for everyone to download. In the past we have worked from guidelines established from trial and error and thankfully to everyone in the SEO industry this confirms pretty much what we took as gospel.

This document first began as an effort to help teams within Google, but we thought it’d be just as useful to webmasters that are new to the topic of search engine optimization and wish to improve their sites’ interaction with both users and search engines.

Eminent Style Relaunched

222 days!

222 days since I last posted. Some could accuse me of being slack or distracted and it could be a combination of the two. The truth is that, thankfully I have been very busy and I have learnt a lot since I launched this site originally nearly 3 years ago.

When I went live with the first version of the site, it was the first time I had implemented a WordPress driven site and I was naive with the way I planned it all out. With a lack of understanding regarding the architecture of web design and WordPress I installed a ‘blog’ in a sub folder called news. So while updating blog or news posts was done through the dashboard of WordPress making any changes to the site’s static pages was a tiresome job.