An Event Apart Chicago

Posted on November 5, 2008 in Web | 3 Comments »

I was lucky enough to have my company pay for myself and my two colleagues, Brad and Adrian, to go to An Event Apart Chicago. Like my An Event Apart Boston Summary, I thought I would create a similar post. This is going to end up being a really long post, so I would recommend reading it in pieces or skimming. I am going to split it up into two pages so that the page does not get even more ridiculously long. So be sure to go on to the next page after reading the first one.

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Change We Can Believe In

Posted on November 5, 2008 in News | 8 Comments »

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Thank you America for doing the right thing.

Weekly Link Round-Up #53

Posted on November 4, 2008 in Web | Add a Comment »

Another busy week for me. I’ve finally finished my review of my experience at An Event Apart Chicago, and I will be publishing it later this week. Yes, I know it’s weeks late, but it is really long and was helpful in helping me remember what I learned. So, here are the links I found interesting last week:

  • Attack Ad Generator

    A political attack ad generator full jQuery goodness.

  • Free Site Validator

    Scan your entire website to search for validation errors. Although, when I tried it, it didn’t seem to get further than the home page. Good idea in concept at least.

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Who Am I?

Trevor Davis I’m Trevor Davis, a 24 year old Front-End Developer. Basically, I make web sites.

By day, I work for Matrix Group International in Alexandria, VA, and by night, I freelance.

Feel free to get in touch with me about anything.

What Have I Done?

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Bookmarks

  • Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide [PDF]

    Google has released a free 22-page Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide containing plenty of well-written, practical and straightforward advice for webmasters. If you've been looking into SEO for a while it probably won't contain anything new for you, but it's useful as a set of guidelines as to what Google considers to be good optimization practice. (psst, Google, with just a little design work it could have looked so much nicer!)

  • The importance of setting expectations

    To make your customer's experience better, be sure to set their expectations.

  • XML Sitemaps Generator

    Insert your URL and let it generate the XML sitemap for you. Very useful for static websites.

  • Train-ee ExpressionEngine Training

    Learn ExpressionEngine with books, screencasts, classroom training and free tutorials from Train-ee.com

  • web.without.words

    Weekly gallery of popular websites reconstructed by removing all words and images, replacing them with blocks.

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