In the future I hope to expand this section with specific original essays and case studies based on my experience. In the meanwhile, some reference links:
- Joomla.org - A powerful and flexible open-source web content-management system I recently started learning for the next revision of cue-network.org (preview it at cue-network.org/joomla/)
- Macworld.com - one of my daily reads along with NYTimes.com and LATimes.com, has a lot of tech news from it's partner publications as well...
- Google Analytics - A free, powerful tool that gives everyone a way to get insights into their web traffic... (all you have to do is add a line of Javascript to your site and connect it to your Google account...)
- Useit.com - An analyst who writes some very interesting articles/research on user experience. Ironically, he's often criticized for having an unattractive site...
- Wikipedia's article on Search Engine Optimization - It's my understanding that the most important parts of legitimate "search engine optimization" are accurate, clear and relevant site descriptions, excellent content, and good PR from legitimate news outlets/organizations (and of course, having a unusual name and a good domain name helps!). However, some business areas are extremely competitive and having a listing high in the ranks for a generic search can be important (e.g., "web designer in los angeles" turns up 78 million pages on Google as of 8/28/2007), depending on how you get (and how you want to get) your business... This article goes into some of the history and controversy...
