Archive for June, 2007

The Web2.0 colours of 2007

Friday, June 29th, 2007

Web2.0 colours of 2007

They’re finally released – the 99 Scruptious colours of 2007, Web2.0 style!

After the fun and excitement of the original Web2.0 colour palette, which I created back in Feb 2006, I have been itching to do it again. Now that we’re exactly halfway through 2007, it seems fitting to throw these files out in the wild now.

Behold, the lovely downloadable files as follows;

As usual, please comment if you have any issues, and don’t forget to grab the original 2006 Web2.0 colour swatches, if you haven’t already!

Image: a taste of the Web2.0 colours of 2007.

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Blog Promotion & SEO

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Grapes and Fence

If you ever needed proof that a standards based layout, a dash of search engine optimisation and a wordpress blog were great ingredients to get a good Google rank, then you’ll be interested to note that I have received a few unsolicited requests from Singapore accommodation providers about reviewing their properties.

It seems that, since after my April visit to Singapore, this blog has been rating high on Google Australia for;

singapore hotel rates (#1)
singapore blog (#1 and #2)
singapore hotels (#17)
singapore hotel blog (#1 and #2)
singapore accommodation (#27)

That, along with just about every version phrase for Web 2.0 colour palette you can imagine, and a referring keyword list which looks very random, means I am getting a wide variety of topics happening on this blog.

Welcome to those looking for Singapore information, Web2.0 detail or photos of Melbourne laneways. I hope you find what you’re after!

Bloggers – what are some of the strange terms you see popping up in your logs?

Photo: Grapes and blue fence.

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Link Love June 2007

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Train tunnel, John Forrest National Park

I get a lot of visitors come from search engines and the like, but there’s also a fair amount to this blog who have come from links from other blogs. I try to check my referrer logs every month or so, so I am aware of many of you, however I wanted to publicly say thanks to those who have shown my humble blog some link love in the last 12 months.

First up, SEO & Marketing blog, Profit Papers. Thanks to the finely named Miles Evans, who dropped a link to here some time back. Love that header graphic and enjoy the reading.

A big wave to Tina Roth Eisenberg and her finely crafted swissmiss blog – love the inspiring posts and design work!

Cool cats Smashing Magazine have also sent some folk my way – cheers for that, and keep up the great work. Props to the uber-cool Uneasy Silence for their kooky content and link love.

OK, so idea*idea and Dr. Web and Pinceladas da Web aren’t even in English, but they still managed to drop links my way – thanks for that, wish I could read what you’ve said!

Natalie Jost over at Standards for Life, great design and posts, here’s to your return one day soon. Thanks also to Troy Worman for keeping me up to date with marketing, ethics, and more.

There’s plenty of others to thank and reciprocate, but I think I’ll save them for another rainy day.

Image: Train Tunnel, John Forrest National Park

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