Google Wants You to Tell it a Story

To decide what to show you in search results, Google pays attention to how long people spend on web pages.Unfortunately, that means a lot of content takes a long time to get to the point, deliberately wasting your time to make you stick around longer. They’re...

Can You Help Me Help My Wife With Her Website?

My wife needs my help, but I don’t think I can do this for her by myself. Although through our @TweetSmarter account I’ve helped thousands of people over the last 5 years on Twitter, now I need some help myself. And I’d like to have my work for her...

How wide should your website be?

Apple.com uses a content width of 984. I didn’t know that until after I wrote this post, but I came to about the the same conclusion. Read on to find out why… Simple statistics… Of visitors to websites in mid-2010 (source): A quarter (24.3%) were using a...

A summary of the Thesis for WordPress legal saga and outcome

UPDATE 4. The former thesis business partner Brian Clark has joined forces with a different WordPress theme framework, StudioPress. UPDATE 3. Well, everything has changed. Here’s a quote from the founder of WordPress. Thesis has done the bare minimum not to be...