Anne Francis Web Design

From the Dude…

I am a big fan of all of this guy’s stuff.

In the video below he describes how he analyzes and tweaks his wordpress blog to get more traffic:

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/06/29/how-to-build-a-high-traffic-blog-without-killing-yourself/

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And from Tim Ferriss

The above video is one of my favorite presentations I’ve given in 2009, an opening keynote at the last San Francisco WordCamp, titled “How to Blog without Killing Yourself”. More than 700 people from 32 countries were in attendance, which made for a wonderful experience.

The original title was “Scalable Blogging Behaviors: How to Grow from 1 to 1,000,000 Readers” and the content did not change.

In the above presentation, including detailed screenshots, I cover…

- Why I blog
- How I blog and select best practices
- Frequency and tools — best times and days to post
- Blogging myths and how to harness data for better results
- Testing design and surprising findings that can be copied
- How I address comments and community building
- How I write and research for good social media response
- 20 minutes of audience Q&A on Twitter, branding, outsourcing, and much more

I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed giving it.

I’ve been hearing a lot about this….

http://www.blueprintcss.org/

Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.

I always try out anything the Dude sends because 99% of the time I find use for it, and sometimes even get an “atta boy” from a client for his ideas.  Thanks dude.

In case you are creating landing pages for any of your projects… The landing page is not the home page…it has a specific purpose: conversion.

http://www.digital-web.com/articles/11_ways_to_improve_landing_pages/

Haven’t checked this one out yet but will:

http://www.getdropbox.com

http://www.jumpchart.com/

I use this one all the time.

Another good file sharing service. Really simple…

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080715-hands-on-drop-io–private-easy-file-sharing-with-a-twist.html

Digging back I found this. The dude strikes again.

This is the one I am reviewing for Spokane River….

http://wordpress.org/about/features/

It has got over 2000 plugins!
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http://webdevelopersfieldguide.com/