These three have been regularly rotating in my font collection over the last few months – particularly Quicksand, which is simply fantastic. But see for yourself!
1. Quicksand
Professional, free and packed with variations – it doesn’t get much better than Quicksand. My favourite versions are Light and Dash Light. When designing mockups I often use Quicksand in place of a light Helvetica Neue because it renders so much better in Photoshop.
2. Delicious Heavy
Very delicious. I used this as the logo for the Cute Bingo site and a few other small projects. Very stylish and suitable for many different uses.
3. Freebooter Script
Often you have to dig a little bit deeper than DaFont to find the top free fonts, but Freebooter is one of the classics to be found on the site. I’m using this for an Online Butcher to be launched shortly. It might seem a bit cursive for that, but with some tweaks – it’s perfect. These guys also have the fantastic Scriptina if you like their style.
There are endless reasons why it could be helpful to use customs fields on categories pages in Wordpress – and it seems many other WP users agree. The users here speak about some plugins that are now out of date – so thankfully, there’s now a painless, fool-proof way to get this working.
Are you getting the most out of your subscriber signup forms?
I’m starting some new campaigns and wanted to get as much info as possible on my subscribers.
Here’s what I was after:
Record the referring URL
By recording the referring URL and monitoring user’s interaction with my newsletters, I can find out which pages or search phrases send the highest-converting traffic.
This week I’ve been doing some SEO groundwork for a Hotel in Alaska while I am coding their hot new Wordpress theme.
The idea was to, first, know what I’m getting myself into and, secondly, devise a plan of how to improve their SEO.
After some research online I came across quite a few SEO templates, including this Pre SEO Report template from Thats SEO.
It’s very simple, but perfect for presenting to clients as an initial benchmark. Using Mac’s Pages I built a PDF document that also included the site’s top ten terms and their current rankings for Google and Yahoo!
I actually lost the black hat stuff, as I didn’t think that was neccesary, and instead included Alexa, Compete and Page Ranks.
No feedback as yet from the client, but I think this is going to be great in a few months when I can look back on the progress we’ve made.
I’m very confident with this client as it’s quite obvious what needs to be done, and there are plenty of sites in Alaska offering links. They’ve also got an awesome URL, which is a great start! I’ll keep you updated!
Ten years since they paid far too much for it, Yahoo! has pulled Geocities this week.
What does that mean for SEOs? Mostly, it means there are TONNES of links waiting to be picked up. 850 million, in fact, says a group called Majestic SEO.
Here’s the concept: thousands of these Geocities pages have been taken down. The site you made at 12 with Michael Jackson midi files and Simpsons gifs: gone!
That leaves a whole lot of webmasters with links pointing to dead Geocities pages. Get those links.
There’s now a great plugin for this!
See WP No Category Base to download and install the plugin. It does all that the hack below does, but better, and instantly.
In fact, I did have some issues with the hack after upgrading Wordpress, so found this plugin instead.
So this one’s been a killer for a long time: you can hack Wordpress in several ways to remove /category/ from the URL, though pagination and all sorts of other nasty side-effects arise.
Anyway, it’s finally been done – you can now remove /category/ from Wordpress URLS, maintain pagination and everything else!
In fact, the fix even writes out /category/ when generating category links through get_the_category or single_cat_title: instead of just redirecting it afterwards as other hacks have done.
A colleague recently forwarded this online intern opportunity for a student in media / communications or business / marketing studies.
As the document mentions, part of the role is utilising social media such as Facebook and Twitter, so I imagine most college students would have half the experience already – regardless of their discipline!
Having worked with online bingo sites for many years, I would highly recommend working with a company in the sweepstakes field – especially as an entry point to the digital industry.
If you’ve found this, you’re no doubt up on SEO. Which means you’ve also probably got a tonne of old blog posts packed with juicy keywords?
Perhaps you’ve also found that your crawl rate is lower than it has been, and only a small portion of your site is indexed?
This was the case with Super Free Bingo – a site that I manage SEO strategies for. While our team spends a lot of time off-site generating new links, and creating new content on-site, all those great bingo stories that were written two years ago are were sitting unused and not indexed!
If you haven’t heard of Automatic Backlinks yet, you’re missing out on one of the great new ways of gathering backlinks. Like many link-building platforms that have risen up of late, it’s about empowering webmasters to generate their own links in the simplest way. Read on for more!