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Free small 16×16 icons – Spiced2Simple

May 19th, 2010

I like Icons, they tell me, what to do, without making me think too much. I’ve been making a bunch of icons lately for different work related things. I also had time to make a small set of icons that I’m going to give you for free. These are basic, general icons that you can use for many different types of websites (and other things). I call them Spiced2Simple.

Spiced2Simple 16x16 icons
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Great WordPress plugins you never knew existed

May 5th, 2010

WordPress plugins are great for extending the capabilities of WordPress to fit your needs or just save some time for you. But there are so many of them that some of the great ones seem to go unnoticed. Here’s a list of great WordPress plugins you never knew existed.


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Fun ways to use advanced segments in Google Analytics

April 26th, 2010

Advanced segments is one of my favourite features in Google Analytics. It gives you the ability to create custom ways of viewing your analytics data with ease. In a few click you can segment visitors so you get data that you can actually use, rather than just overall numbers that don’t help you much. It gives you an easy way to answer questions that come up from the data that has already been collected which you are not able to with new site profiles.
Advanced segments in Google Analytics

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How to check if your email has been blacklisted

April 18th, 2010

Ever started to get those not delivered emails in your inbox? It’s annoying, especially if you have sent some important emails to clients or partners. Often it is because of the recipients spam filter or a large file that is too big. But sometimes it can be your email that has been blacklisted. And that can be a big problem. I just had this problem not that long ago so I thought I would just share the tools I used to figure out what was wrong. So here are some ways to check if you have been blacklisted.

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Make your website sticky!

April 14th, 2010

Peanut butter and jelly. So tasty, so sweet and so sticky! Make your website like that and you are on your way to having a successful website. A Sticky website is a website that keep visitors around for longer, that make them view more pages and a website that get them to come back for more. It should be said that this will be a good thing for most websites but not for all.

So let’s have a look at how you can make your website more sticky. I’m going to look at some of the things you can do, if you have a content site, like a blog, but you can use it across other types of websites as well.
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12 Firefox tweaks and hacks

April 8th, 2010

Firefox, the application most used on my computer. Take away itunes, skype, hell even photoshop but leave me with firefox and I’ll be al right :) But there are some hacks and tweaks to make firefox even better. I’ve gathered 12 that I use on my personal installation here.
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Website redesigns – what to think about

April 5th, 2010

I’ve done a bunch of redesigns lately and It’s been a challenge, to say the least. But I’ve learned a bunch about what not to do when you redesign a website. This is especially important when you are redesigning active and popular websites. If the site has been the same since 1996 and there isn’t much going on, it’s quite easy to redesign, but if it’s a popular site you have to be a little more careful in your redesign. These are some of the things that I have been thinking about during the redesigns, I hope they’ll help you too.
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Building a trustworthy website

April 1st, 2010

Let’s face it. Signalling trust on you website and in particular on your landing pages is a big factor in how good your conversion rate is. Problem is, you only have a couple of seconds to make people trust you. So how do you go about building trust in your services and products in the 3 seconds visitors plan on giving you? We all make split second decisions, both on and offline.
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14 places to find free quality fonts

March 28th, 2010

A special font is a great way to make your website, poster, CD cover etc. stand out. There’s a lot of free fonts on the web, most of them are quite bad, so you have to go through a lot of site to find the good ones so I thought I would save you some of the trouble and share my bookmarks. These are the websites I use to find good quality fonts online.

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Ideas to increase conversion rate

March 23rd, 2010

Conversion rate – the number of conversions made divided by the number of total visits. It’s the holy grail of e-commerce websites, it’s the figure that every webshop tries to optimize and the number that management is never really satisfied with. There are some basic things, that you can do, to help users get through your conversion process.

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I specialize in standard compliant XHTML, CSS and JavaScript web development. All the sites I built are search engine friendly and are made with the latest development techniques and principles.
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