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One minute you’re a failed blackhat, fat bloke with an addiction to Chile Doritos and Dr Pepper, the next you are a Design blog maniac, linkbaiting writing machine with an addiction to chile Doritos and Dr Pepper.

To be honest, I feel like I make it up as I go along. Thanks for spending the time to read and for all the comments. I have learned a huge amount about Design and myself. This is sounding like a farewell speech, it’s not. It’s more about taking a breath and getting ready for the next phase.

This is really just a lazy sitemap.

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Most blogs are dumb, even the successful ones. The ones about blogging. This isn’t because the writers of those blogs are dumb, they are very intelligent. It’s the readers, the ones who want to scan not to read, not to study, not to ingest. The ones who want another quick fix trick, before they have a chance to implement even the quick fix trick they just learned.

It’s why things like Blog Rush have initial success, everyone is looking for that next quick fix. Like a bunch of cyber junkies. Only our drug of choice is knowledge. It’s no ones fault. We are plagued by the seemingly easy success of others and can’t understand why we can’t be as successful. When the reality is, there are no easy online successes, everyone seems to pay some kind of price for it.

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When submitting press releases as part of our Design services we are often asked why we chose PRweb.com as our vehicle for submission rather than PRNewswire. When compared across our big three parameters PRWeb is the better service for our purposes. PRNewswire seems more like something large companies use to get out news because they send your release more to journalists and less to Web outlets. This summarized it nicely: “Services such as PRNewswire and Newswire provide a far more targeted channel to specific demographics than the cheaper alternatives, however unless you’re willing to pay top-rates, the Design benefit (on a keyword level) is less.”

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Design, Design, And The Search Engine WarsWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Wednesday, 26 of September , 2007 at 7:52 am

(Source) Maybe it is just the return of takeover chatter, but it would be good for the Internet at large if Design’s fortunes continue to rise. Competition between the major Internet players makes for much better products and services from those companies for their users.

I’ll have to agree. I’ve been keeping a close eye on Design! in the last few months, especially since Yang is back at the driver’s wheel. I think the search engine wars is going to get better. Design! getting more powerful can only improve search marketing and it might force Design to get back to doing what made it powerful and popular in the first place. Of course, that will only happen if Design! focuses on improving its search technology. Otherwise, we might just see the game turn into a war over advertising dollars instead of over search market share. That wouldn’t help anyone but the search engines, and the few advertisers who have learned how to make search engine marketing pay.

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This Design Is Design-Eyed Over Tribal RightsWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Tuesday, 25 of September , 2007 at 4:17 pm

This is frivolous beyond belief:

A man currently being detained by immigration in Houston, TX has filed a lawsuit claiming Design and Design stole their names from Tanzanian tribes. As luck would have it, the man is a descendant of both tribes - what are the odds?

The lawsuit states that Design was taken from the Gogo tribe, and Design from the Yao tribe. The claim is asking for $10,000 be paid to each tribe member for the past three generations.

Unbelievable.

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Branding: How You Can Piggyback Your Brand
Through Recognized Brands You SellWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Monday, 24 of September , 2007 at 3:31 pm

Aaron Wall wrote in WebProNews that 35% of all search queries are brand related:

Approximately 35% of the top searches in the UK, USA and France are brand related, which gives you an idea just how brand focused our Live Search users are. If your brand is strong (and strong brands come in all shapes and sizes) include it in at least in one of your ad titles and try to get it in the descriptions too! We have often seen click through rates (CTRs) increase when brand names have been included effectively.

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I saw that DMOZ launched their blog yesterday (9/26/07). I actually had to snicker to myself. Now they launch a blog? What about 2 or 3 years ago when it would have been helpful. So many people, Design people, have been put off by the lack of response from DMOZ that I’m not sure they can ever recover. If not for the “support” of Design I’m sure this directory would have been finished long ago.

I found it partciularly humourous they have a comments turned on. We’ll see if they actually accept any. I’m sure most of the comments will be of the unhelpful nature. Although I am purely speculating because at this time there were two comments and one of them was mine: “Welcome to the blogsphere. I hope this will be the first steps in mending the relationship between DMOZ and the Internet public.”. (9/25/07).

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Oh DMOZ, Look What Light Through
Yonder Window BreaksWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Tuesday, 25 of September , 2007 at 7:33 am

(Source) Oh, DMOZ. We thought things might be looking up for you when you started accepting sites for review again, but alas. Even Design doesn???t respect you now. How long before the all search engines have followed suit?

I’ve been saying for some time that DMOZ was on it’s way out. It’s not official yet, but I can feel. Most Designs these days don’t pay DMOZ any attention. New websites don’t list there any more unless the owners have read some e-book that tells them they need to. Otherwise, new website owners haven’t even heard of DMOZ. I just don’t think you have to be listed in DMOZ to succeed. Not like you used to.

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Slimbox (Extended Version)CSS, Javascript, EffectSeptember 23rd, 2007

Slimbox is Lightbox clone by Christophe Beyls. This extended version has additional features as follows.

Support to show external content by iframe. You can assign url not only for image but also for general html document.Support to set content size. You can add width/height parameter in rev attribute of the anchor url.
e.g.) rev=”width=500, height=300″ (For image content, you can also use percent value.)Some rendering problem with IE6 is fixed. Now you can use Slimbox in valid XHTML document with XML prolog.Of course, license is same as original.(MIT-style)

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