Today I closed my 11th SEO proposal. This may not sound very impressive (and it isn’t a high profile client either), but it does to me, not only because it adds a few more numbers for the account handlers, but because it means that my sales strategy works (11 out of 11 closed) and that [...]
Web Development
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Alexander Rehm on December 19th, 2008
My day to day work consists of a lot of time spending on the internet, looking at web presences of current clients, prospective clients and their (and our) competition. My tool of the trade being FireFox 3 (especially considering that IE seems to have a little problem). I am using a number of addons which [...]
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Dec
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Alexander Rehm on December 3rd, 2008
It has been a couple of weeks since I last wrote about Information Architecture, be it IA and user testing or designing for the mobile web in mind, and I want to talk about a topic today which relates somewhat to a somewhat new-ish step in Information Architecture, namely the integration of user retention and [...]
Continue reading about Information Architecture for Game Publisher websites (part 1)
I am happy to announce that the new site of Melon Design & Marketing has gone live today!! Melon Design & Marketing is a creative communication agency based near Milton Keynes, between Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire, specialising in a number of sectors such as branding & corporate identity, graphic design, website design & development, advertising [...]
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Google just launched its beta of Google Chrome, the in-house browser that is said to “combine a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.” The browser comes with a lot of interesting features such as a new tab look, a neat address bar giving you the options to search [...]
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Alexander Rehm on July 23rd, 2008
Not so long ago I received an email from a former student of mine who has just started up his own design studio asking whether or not outsourcing work to contractors, freelancers or studios makes sense and what to look out for. Especially for upcoming design studios or companies / agencies who are lacking in [...]
Continue reading about On outsourcing work in the web design industry – things to look out for
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Alexander Rehm on July 6th, 2008
Over the last couple of months I have been working on a great number of design, usability and accessibility reports for clients of mine. Some of the sites I worked on are pretty good, and all you can recommend is maybe tightening up their call-to-actions or look at a couple of points of Section 508 [...]
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Alexander Rehm on Google’s new algorithm allowing its bots to search and index flash content
Continue reading about On Flash – SWF files can now be found and indexed