webdistortion not your average geeks. Great tagline. And kudos to Paul on the geeky photo used for the main graphic. It’s perfect.
Webdistortion is nutured and lovingly cared for by Paul. A twenty something, developer / designer / music junkie who likes to create. The blog contains digital musings about webdesign, marketing and other knick-knacky geek stuff.
Webdistortion presents serious information, and all at your fingertips. Glancing below the geek and to the left (scroll a bit), you’ll see where the site nav ends and the blog begins. No hunting around needed.
Blog >> Blogging >> Business >> Design >> Google >> Marketing … bingo … 6 quick steps to lowering your website bounce rate.
How’s your bounce rate? Are you worried? Do you know enough to be worried? I do worry so I followed his advice (what I had the time for anyway).
The first bit of advice brought me to browsershots.org. Great stuff. In a few minutes, I received screen shots of more browsers than I knew even existed.
Next we are asked to ‘pretend you are the visitor’. And he’s right, it IS difficult to do. I sat back and looked at DWB for minute, which reminded me of what I already knew was wrong. So, knowing that it’s not easy to find where to submit blogs for features, I pulled Submit out and added it to the top level of the nav. While there, I did a quick rewrite for clarity (is it clear enough for you?)
I also added the suggestion of leaving comments as I feel it’s important. It’s always been strange here at DWB because I get a TON of back and forth via email but not very many comments. And truthfully (as it’s all good stuff), the majority of the emails I do get would be helpful for everyone to read. Except for the juicy stuff of course (just seeing if anyone is paying attention …)
Do you see anything else I could do to improve? I’m open for suggestions. Honest. (Note: I’m having problems with cookies and comments, but I’m working on that particular snafu. Oh, and if anyone has the answer, I’d be ever so grateful).
Backing out and skimming down past the webdistortion’s blog nav and back into the site nav, I see there’s Articles on offer. Nice.
To educate our customers in things they should consider when getting a website developed, and to help separate good from bad developers we’ve put together some useful articles. Check back here often or check out our blog whilst we expand this section of our website.
Articles (in my opinion) are a must on a website [slash] business with blog combo. And both Ten considerations when developing a website and What makes a great website? offer great advice for clients, yes?
Articles are great for blog blogs too. But for DWB, that’ll have to come when I’ve decided just what I’m supposed to be an expert at. Or not.
Ah, decisions, decisions …
Btw, webdistortion was discovered via: edge3sixty
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May 26th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Yep, I do like the header image too.
The 10 considerations when designing a website contains some great advice.
Hope the comment testing helped earlier.
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May 26th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Hey David, seems I’m remembered but now I just need to see if my visitors are able to log in without adding their information again and again.
Magic. Yes? Well, hopefully :-)
Ps: Paul is Irish and a web designer … (hint) (hint) …
May 26th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
That’s great how your own details are again remembered. Mine aren’t but I don’t mind the additional three seconds re-typing.
Paul just left a comment on my own blog which is great. I wonder if it was due to me commenting here?
David Aireys last blog post..Logo design and business card for WDE
May 26th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Ah, it might have a lot to do with the CommentLuv plugin you introduced me to. I sure hope so!
(and here’s hoping I come across a fix for the comments soon - as magic only goes so far)
May 27th, 2008 at 12:04 am
Comment luv is a great incentive to leave comments - and write compelling headlines! Shame I can’t plug it in to my typepad blog… Okay, I hear you, I hear you…
On the submission guidelines - maybe you could clarify even further that you’d like to get more conversation going, so comments are welcome before your blog is highlighted, when it goes up, and afterwards - why not stay around and chip in your tuppenceworth to the DWB community?
Joanna
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May 27th, 2008 at 1:58 am
Many thanks for the kind words guys, as always - appreciated.
@David - actually, no it wasn’t, I’ve got you on
my rss reader list, and I noticed the post was Northern Ireland related - that was what made me click through and comment.
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May 27th, 2008 at 3:24 am
Cat,
In one respect I hope it isn’t the CommentLuv plugin, considering I introduced you to it! On the other hand, would be good if you finally resolved the issue.
Paul,
That’s great to know you’re a subscriber, thanks very much. :)
David Aireys last blog post..Logo design and business card for WDE
May 27th, 2008 at 7:23 am
Joanna - ‘Shame I can’t plug it in to my typepad blog… Okay, I hear you, I hear you…’ :-) I know. CommentLuv is one of the best plugins ever (thanks David!) On the comments, I guess I need to write post just on comments.
David - I was having problems before CommentLuv so that’s not it. I thought it was the comment.php so I did a bit of research and seems you can delete it as it’ll just grab the comment.php from the default. But, that’s not it either as I had to sign in yet again this morning. So, off I go to continue to figure this out.
cats last blog post..webdistortion: not your average geeks
June 25th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Oh my, this is a perfect picture. It is one step from being a candidate for viral marketing. Give him a geeky name, get a story behind him and voila! He would also look good on badges, t-shirts and other promo materials :D
Anyway, thank you for bringing all these ideas together. I love reading your blog.
June 27th, 2008 at 6:55 am
Absolutely! And I wished I’d grabbed the idea first. Sigh. But isn’t it always like that?
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