Green Seed Web Design

On November 13th 2009, Tim and I attended Phoenix WordCamp, a conference for WordPress developers, bloggers, and geeks alike.   The speaker line up was interesting and even entertaining… and of course some spoke about things we already know.  Speakers included Matt Mullenweg founding developer of WordPress, Merlin Mann of 43folders.com, Jim Christian- SEO guru [...]

In this world of informational overload, how can you possibly keep up? Especially in the field of SEO, following along with industry changes is critical. I am a big nerd when it comes to RSS feeds. Not only do I subscribe to them on my PC but on my Blackberry as well. Although I know [...]

I’ve become a blogger, it wasn’t overnight and I didn’t think it was in my genes yet it has most definitely happened. I first attempted to blog a few years ago and you may just as well have handed me a french horn and said ‘play me a tune’. I grabbed the concept and thought [...]

I stumbled upon what appears to be an entry level CMS solution today that merits some further examination. Perch is an inexpensive (less than $60 license) CMS that appears to create a bridge to permit CMS functionality on a slightly reduced scale for both you and your client. Set up and installation is a snap and [...]

I’ve talked a lot about ways to assess if your current site is really optimized for the visitor. Of course you consider navigation, content, linking and programming working correctly. Add to the list the giant spectrum of which browsers your potential audience might be using. I recently started a new blog and after just a week [...]

A very short and simple addition to Twitter today that can make finding what is relevant to you on Twitter easier by a country mile. Check out Tweet Tabs – this very simple application allows you to filter tweets related to specific tabs you set up. For example if you want to see anything related to [...]

Your existing site gets traffic but no conversions, people never leave the home page, you have dead links, your site just screams 2001…..it’s an ongoing issue with websites. Where do you start? Can you find a solution? This is the first suggestion in a series of ideas to improve your current web design. If your site [...]

It’ll come as no shock if I write about something different today after the events of yesterday. You’ll probably assume I mean the demise of a gifted singer/performer from Gary, Indiana and you’d be correct. The desire for profit and community online in 2009 has reached ever increasing heights. I won’t show the lack of tact [...]

The rush to jump aboard the Twitter express is well and truly on and many businesses have heard, or read or simply inferred that launching a social media campaign is critical.  It is, but all too often armed without a marketing strategy and little planning companies both large and small are opening a twitter account [...]

This is a site you just have to love – for a designer trying to replicate a font a client has seen it’s a dream come true. What the Font! offers a ‘detection’ service which allows you to seek a match for a font,  if you’re lucky it’ll be perfect at worst it will be [...]