Author: Russell

It’s January — still — and it’s now been over two months since my first post on this new blog. In that post, you’ll recall how I explored the many reasons for resurrecting my web design blog, just a few short years after my previous efforts ground to a halt after a mere four posts.

Based on the lack of posts since November, you’d be forgiven for thinking I’d forgotten about my blog for a second time. And, this time around, after just a single post! I haven’t forgotten of course. I’ve just been really busy with… y’know… Christmas and stuff.

Just four days after that first blog post, I made a fairly major change in the search engine optimisation (SEO) strategy for my website. And it’s been downhill ever since. (Fear not — there’s a happy ending!)

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Many years ago, when I was but a whippersnapper of a freelance web designer and developer, with only a few years of web design experience under my (slightly smaller) belt, I remember leaving a dismissive comment on a piece of Mac shareware, listed on the now-defunct VersionTracker software website. The comment went something along the lines of: “If you realise there are already too many of these applications, then why make YET ANOTHER?”.

I felt very pleased with myself and would certainly have dropped a microphone had I been holding one. The name of the application itself was essentially “Yet Another [Bit Of Software That Does That Thing]”. It’s function is irrelevant; the less-than-subtle point I’d missed in my naivete was that the developer clearly recognised there were already too many applications of this kind, but had created yet another one anyway. They’d then made light of this in the naming process, presumably to capture the attention and be a bit “different”.

Fast forward to today, and… cue the first post in my new web design blog!

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