A Brief Look At My Website Stats
Remember those days when people used to put website hit counters on their site (actually I still see this every so often)? These days we are more secretive about our stats, or we simply don’t see the need to share them openly with the rest of the world.
After checking my Google Analytics account recently, I thought it might be of interest to publicise some of my findings. So I selected 1 month, April 1st – April 30th 2009, and here are the findings.
Web Design Trends: Illustrated Characters
Illustrated characters are a very popular trend and as I stated in my guest post for Six Revisions: Five types of effective headers in web design, they add some character and a sense of friendliness to your website.
I’ve put together a showcase of my favourite illustrated characters along with some further links for inspiration.
Barcamp Belfast: The 7 Deadly Sins of Wordpress
I had the pleasure of attending and talking at Barcamp Belfast on Saturday (25th April) before dashing off and getting a plane to London for the marathon.
I had a great morning and going by feedback from others the whole day was a great success with some fantastic speakers and over 350 attendees. Well done to Andy Good for putting it together, along with all those who helped out. There’s a good video montage of the day here.
Guest Post: Five Types of Effective Headers in Web Design
Check out my latest guest blog post over at Six Revisions: Five Types of Effective Headers in Web Design.
The post looks at 5 different styles of headers, showcasing 5 examples of each.
25 Hot Female Web Designers Part 2
Last year I published ‘25 hot female web designers‘, showcasing a collection of female designers who are hot at web design and had great websites.
With the recent publication of the A List Apart Survey 2008, I thought it was a good opportunity to follow this up with another 25 great designers.
This year’s survey found that 16.2% of those surveyed (29,567 of A List Apart readers) were female. That’s a rise of 0.1%. So there’s not much improvement in regards to the amount of females in the industry, but I have came across 25 more great designs.
Net Visionary Awards: Shortlist Announced
This year’s Net Visionary Awards shortlist has been announced.
The Net Visionary Awards are an annual awards ceremony that celebrate the best in online business in Ireland.
Well done to all shortlisted and I’m looking forward to hearing the results, but being a web designer the award that draws the most interest from me is for ‘Web Designer Excellence‘.
Guest Post: 15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website
Check out my latest guest blog post over at Smashing Magazine: 15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website.
Web Design Trends: Designing Out Of The Box
This is a creative trend catching on. It’s very simple to do but adds an extra element of character and uniqueness to a design.
Take a look at how to implement this ‘out of the box’ technique and a list of creative websites that are using it.
10 Proven Tips To Get More Twitter Followers
After reading this recent post from @paddydonnelly, Not Another ‘10 Tips to get more Twitter Followers’, I felt compelled to write what I think is the best way to use Twiiter for getting more followers.
Follow this surefire guide and you’ll have hundreds (or even thousands) of more followers on Twitter in no time.
15 Beautiful Typography Inspired Websites
I’ve seen a lot of designs lately experimenting with large type, and with the right choice of font, contrast and whitespace they look great.
Check out this inspirational list of typographic based designs that I’ve put together.