This might be a silly question to some but you'd be surprised how many people don't realize the effect that every feature, application, functionality or word has on search engine results.
For starters, the term content encompasses so much more that just the copy you see on the home page or about us page....
Pros and cons of making your application base publicly accessible
IntroductionHaving spent a significant amount of time working with third-party APIs, application libraries and lifeBLUE's own internal PHP framework, I noticed several trends in terms of usability and improvability. Obviously adherence to programming standards, organization and quality of code are huge factors that come into...
Lifeblue Media launches CMGCash.com, providing web users with information that is easy to find and logical conversion points for plaintiffs and legal consultants. LifeBLUE’s mission with this project was to create a simple and accessible site for a highly complex topic. The website was designed and developed around the CMG business model. We addressed...
We live in an age of intellectual capitalism where thought leadership, total team engagement and a vested interest by all are the ingredients to success. In other words, attitude is everything.
Most businesses cannot propel themselves to new heights with the outdated practices stemming from the manufacturing age of the early 20th century. Business...
Think outside the box. That’s exactly what we did for Posy Lane. When LifeBLUE Media launched a new website for PosyLane.com, you can see creativity stretched and an e-commerce site brought to life. We helped them offer a lot more than embroidered and monogrammed personalized gifts.
Conceptual design throughout the website allows the...
I ask myself, is there a language to graphic design? Are there governing "rules"? What makes a good design, good? How can the pros make it look so easy, yet when I try designing, it looks unorganized, full of clutter, unsettling, boring, and something I like to call digital vomit?
Okay, enough with the...
November. It seems like October ends and November 1st marks the official start of the holiday season. Overwhelming really, with the smell of cinnamon sticks, the sea of green, holiday lights strung from every house and building in the neighborhood, and of course 'Jingle Bells' playing the moment you open the doors of any...
As the use of personas has become a de facto standard in the web development process, there appears to be a missed opportunity with interactive web design. The application of user personas, or behavioral archetypes, in the design process offers many benefits, and can help guide decisions on a project. It also holds stakeholders...
Identifying and eliminating double instantiation of objects and single-synchronous-request 'caching'
'Logic Busters' is a continuation of the 'Schema Busters' series with an emphasis on business-logic practices that you can implement when engineering your web-applications. The concepts discussed in this series will differ from the previous in that they are geared towards programming practices and tips...
For my next several blogs I'm going to be discussing a powerful PHP design pattern, the factory. Since PHP applications and the data structures they interface with are getting larger and more complex there is a need to streamline and simplify how these data structures are loaded into useful objects.
For example, let's take robust...