The Newfangled Blog

Web developers are the backbone of the web design world but are almost always behind the scenes....coding. For any of us who have or have tried to learn programming languages and how to utilize them, knows how truly amazing web developers are. George Wamichi is one of these and happens to be my deskmate. Lucky Me!!

Here is a little more about George...

This month's newsletter is finally out. I waited until today to publish it because I discovered last year that publishing a newsletter a day or two before Halloween resulted in the lowest readership I'd seen in a long time (see the tracking data for yourself).

The newsletter's title is Who Are You Speaking To? How does that relate to robots? The gist of it is that we often focus so much on search engine optimization that we end up creating our content more for robots than for people. Then we wonder why our site isn't delivering any return on the investment of time and resources we sink in.

Head over and read it in full >

Last year, I was the only one in the office who came to work in a costume, but this year I'm pleased to say that a bunch of us got into the Halloween spirit. Take a look!

Our journey from consultants to implementors and back to consultants again.

Newfangled is a very active place; things are always growing, changing, and being refined. Of all the new things going on, I am most excited about our new support model. Here's why.

Last time I wrote about our recent brahmin.com site build, it was to talk about the advanced product search. This time, I want to focus on some of the decisions we made in structuring the navigation. These topics are closely related because the complement to an easy-to-use search should always be an easy-to-use nav structure; pairing the two lets users take whichever approach they're most comfortable with, making it more likely that they'll find what they're looking for.

You launched your website a few years ago. At the time, it featured the latest and greatest technology... But now your once-top-notch site seems to be lagging behind...

More and more of our clients are finding themselves in this situation. Technology evolves so rapidly that it can be hard to keep up, and a site that's only a couple years old seems ancient! If your site falls into this category, here are a few options you can consider...

Hi, I'm Briana and I'm the Newfangled Intern. I've been asked to be a guest blogger and I hope to bring you some interesting topics which in turn will lead to some great discussions.

Here is the story of how I got here...

Here is an example of a homepage redesign making a big imact. This upgrade was initiated as a way for the client to focus attention on four specific areas of the business, but there was also opportunity for streamlining the homepage's featured content.

The Internet is a noisy place, with Twitter updates constantly streaming and blogs spewing out second-hand knowledge, making it difficult to find sources that are both credible and consistently good. Here are a few blogs that I follow that keep me informed on what's going on and what's next in Web technology.

Last week I noted a post by John Hagel called Stupidity and the Internet in my post on the The Post-Screen Web. Hagel covered several topics in that post, one of which was the web's effect upon thinking and whether short-form content makes that effect a negative one. He writes...