Bought a New Book about Website Optimization

Sean Jordan — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:53:35 +0000

Stopped by Borders yesterday, and picked up a new book, cleverly titled Website Optimization, by Andrew B. King.

I was looking for a book which covered SEO, and this fits the bill. O’Reilly books are pretty well known for their quality in the techie field. Paraphrased from the back cover, here is what it has inside:

“Best practices to improve search engine rankings”
“Keyword optimization and guerilla PR techniques”
“Optimize pay-per-click campaigns”
“Maximize conversion rates by using landing page guidelines to increase leads and sales…”
“Tune website performance by utilizing XHTML, CSS, and Ajax techniques…”

Glancing through, it looks pretty solid, and has a 5-star rating on Amazon. It’s definitely worth checking it out, and the current price of $26.39 (PLUS FREE SHIPPING!) is a much better deal than the $39.99 sticker price I paid.

I have a lot of time off work coming up soon, due to the holidays, vacation, etc. I hope to get through the book soon, and will definitely post my reaction.

A handful of awesome websites

Sean Jordan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:35:51 +0000

Here is a handful of websites that I’ve found to be just plain awesome. If you, too, create web pages for a living, I think you’ll dig.

Iconfinder.net
WebDesignDev
GeoCities
Quirksmode
InstantDomainSearch
Cooltext (For those not so professional in photoshop or gimp)
Logomaker

That’s all I got right now. This is what I use a lot for inspiration or resources. You should already be aware of most, if not all, of these sites. Just giving them their due respect.

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Bought a New Book about Website Optimization

A handful of awesome websites