Hot on the heels of the ‘awesome’ content idea generator, I came across this handy collection of online tools for generating content ideas – a very useful resource for content marketers to crack through stubborn cases of creative block.
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Web Design Trends to Help You Spring Clean Your Resume
This post from Andy Budd on web design trends is fascinating as it shows how once-popular terms such as information architecture and interaction design are falling out of favor when compared with UX design and responsive design.
Read MoreLooking to Hire an Email Marketing Manager
It’s been a while, but I’m hiring again. I’m looking for an Email Marketing Manager to create and manage email campaigns for the Observint Technologies portfolio of companies.
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Create Awesome Article Headlines in Seconds with the Content Idea Generator
It’s sometimes often hard to come up with great ideas for articles. That’s why I found this content idea generator to be such a useful online tool.
It seems like a bit of fun to begin with (much like the LinkedIn recommendation generator), but it actually generates some good headlines, and more importantly, sets the creative juices flowing. Read More
Two Great Guides to SEO for Large Websites
The latest Moz Top 10 email from SEOmoz had a couple of articles that I found particularly useful for people managing larger websites, such as online stores or newspapers. Read More
Lessons Learned from Launching an Online Store on Magento
For my day job, I manage a number of online properties, including a couple of online stores. We recently relaunched our main ecommerce site, Supercircuits.com, on Magento Enterprise Edition. Here are my thoughts about the experience.
Read MoreWeb Page Pagination Design Showcase
I’m always fascinated by the creative approaches web designers take to seemingly straightforward UI elements such as breadcrumbs and search boxes. Recently I needed to provide some feedback for a page design that involved pagination, and so I set out across the web in search of examples.
As a result, I came up with my own pagination design showcase. Looking through the different designs, a pretty strong design convention is quickly evident. Here’s a typical example:
Best Practices for Writing Email Subject Lines [Infographic]
As someone who sends 3-5 marketing emails a week to our various lists, writing good subject lines is something I think about a lot. Which is why I found this infographic from Litmus on writing the perfect email subject line so helpful.
Click the infographic to view the full size version:
My Best Web Apps and Software of 2012
Last year I posted about my top web tools of 2011, so I thought I’d revisit that post to see which ones I’m still using in 2012 (hint: most of them) and if any new ones had found a place in my web development armory.
Read More6 Essential Mobile Email Design Best Practices with Examples
A recent report and infographic from ReturnPath shows that mobile email usage has now clearly surpassed its desktop and webmail counterparts, which ties with data from Campaign Monitor showing the same trend.
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