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- Written by Daniel Titus
- Category: Trends
One of the greatest strengths of the world wide web is, of course, the world part. We all know that we should have a target audience in mind, but what do we do when our target audience lives all over the world crossing all sorts of socio-economic factors? It can be particularly difficult for us designers. This week I'm designing a site to reach farmers in the Southeastern United States as well as a site to reach CEOs of fortune 500 companies. So, what is the common factor? What should a good design contain regardless of medium, location or demographic?
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As I'm sure you noticed, much of the web went dark on Wednesday (January 18, 2012). I am very impressed with some of the big name websites that did a complete or partial blackout. Google, Wikipedia, Wired, FireFox, Reddit, WordPress, MoveOn, InspiredMag and many more joined in this peaceful online protest. Our message was clear SOPA and PIPA are bad bills. I imagine there are still some lingering questions about all of this. I'd like to address just a few of them.
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- Category: SEO
Part of the job for any good website developer is to stay caught up in the world of SEO. I've become a bit of an algoholic over the past couple of years. I read all the insider information I can find on Google algorithms. I watch the search percentages between Google (& YouTube) and Bing (& Yahoo). I'm even going through withdrawals because Google's Matt Cutts is taking a "digital break." Because of this sort of involvement, I have a ludicrous sounding prediction:
2012 will be the end of SEO ... at least as we commonly think of it.
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- Category: Miscellaneous
Well, 2011 has been very good to us here at DanielTitus.com. With the new year approaching many people will be looking ahead to 2012. I think that's good. We should all be mindful about the future. We should make preparations and resolutions with renewed enthusiasm. In addition to that, I feel it is important to be contemplative. It is paramount to consider our successes and failures, joys and sorrows, accomplishments and mistakes. Each year I try to bear in mind the salient moments of the past year before resolving for the year ahead. Because it would be rude and in poor taste to share with you some of my regrets from this past year, I will share, instead, some of my favorite projects of the year.
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I've got a pretty cool job, but it's not quite the coolest in the world. The coolest job in the world belongs to a friend of mine. He is a producer at Sky Parlor Studios. That's right; he produces games ... for a living! They're still a new company (just under a year old), but they've already got three games out. I downloaded their most recent app called Carnival of Games that's available on both Android and AppStore. I thought you might be interested in reading my take on it.