Matthew Buchanan

"Make something you believe in. Make it beautiful, confident, and real. Sweat every detail. If it’s..."

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:48:28 +1300

“Make something you believe in. Make it beautiful, confident, and real. Sweat every detail. If it’s not getting traffic, maybe it wasn’t good enough. Try again.”

- Derek Powazek has no time for spammers, evildoers, and opportunists, but he’s goddamned inspiring to the rest of us.

Firerift

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:47:00 +1200

Firerift:

Malte Müller:

A new template-free CMS that abandons templates in favour of a client-sided solution using JavaScript and JSON. Also, from what I can tell, it’s the single best user interface I’ve ever seen on a CMS.

SEO concerns aside, this might be a great option for fast, small sites without much complexity, but there’s too many downsides for it to be a serious contender on more complex builds. It’s built on CodeIgniter and the interface is very polished, particularly for handling preset data types such as galleries. Priced at US$50 per domain.

"We’ve just made a few changes to make your tumblelogs a bit more accessible and search-engine..."

Fri, 23 May 2008 23:49:00 +1200

“We’ve just made a few changes to make your tumblelogs a bit more accessible and search-engine friendly.”

- Tumblr adds plain-English post summaries to its URLs (but hey, where’s the edit function?), and I note that tags are now fully supported for output onto custom templates. I’ve fastidiously tagged all my posts since starting this thing, should prove useful.

"Tell your clients that quick fixes only get you so far and help them plan new sites and new..."

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:10:00 +1300

“Tell your clients that quick fixes only get you so far and help them plan new sites and new marketing strategies, using best web practices.”

- In the wake of a recent post on SEO, Eoghan McCabe interviews fellow Irishman Dave Davis of RedFly Marketing and concludes that SEO is still bullshit