WordPress SEO, A Pre-Launch Checklist
I missed Mike Payne’s WordPress SEO, A Comprehensive Pre-Launch Checklist presentation at this years WordCamp Salt Lake City, but thankfully WordPressTV has posted this and a few other videos from the day for your posterity and mine. The video may be titled WordPress SEO, but a lot of what Mike…
Read More ⊕Nibbler: Awesome Website Testing
There’s a lot of ways to test and benchmark your website, but few are as fun as Nibbler. And it’s free! What does Nibbler do? Nibbler will go through 5 pages of which ever site you specify and test them on a range of relevant criteria. Once it’s finished you’ll…
Read More ⊕How to get Google to Like You
So you want Google to like you, eh? You want to be at the top? Well good, because the top is a great place to be. It’s not easy to get there, though – so you’ve got to be prepared. It’s not rocket science either, thankfully, and it doesn’t take…
Read More ⊕Why we don’t do Flash
In the early days of Spigot Design, Flash based websites were all the rage. We’ve long since learned new tricks, and as a result have pretty much dropped Flash based work all together. Not a lot has been written on why we’ve given it up, so perhaps it’s time (although…
Read More ⊕Spigot Design Wants You to Get Noticed
The following is an article printed in the April 22nd issue of the Park Record, and is reprinted with permission: Website creator favors simple, clean & modern By ANDREW KIRK Of the Record staff Language purists may not appreciate that “Googling” is now an accepted verb, but the reality is…
Read More ⊕5 tips on promoting your website for free
There are a number of ways to promote your website that involve parting with hard earned dollars, but I’ll often tell clients that the best ways to market your site are actually free. Well, free might not actually be precise, since nothing is ever truly free. So instead of money,…
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