So today is my last day here at Buzz Networker. Between working on my Masters in Digital Media Study, working full time as the social media strategist and community manager for a white label social media company, and everything else I have on my plate it is time for me to walk away from some freelance assignments. I want to thank everyone here at b5media for helping me establish myself in this field and letting me  play in this space. In the next few months I hope to launch a social media consulting company that will have a blog on it where I talk about my tips and tricks.  If you want to stay updated with what I am doing please feel free to add me on: twitter facebook or even drop me an e-mail at kevin (at) pointlessbanter.net… I look... [Read more]

Today I had to write a response about a presentation regarding analytics specifically server houses versus web. However I think for this blog a lot of people are already rather knowledgeable about that subject so I would like to dive into what I use and why I use them. Currently on my personal blog I use a combination of both google analytics and mybloglog. Google gives me a good look at the various demographics of my site and helps me understand how my site is viewed, when it is viewed, keywords, how it is viewed, and by whom. It is a great tool to collect and analyze data with. I usually view analytics every couple of days when I want to investigate what is going on with my site. However mybloglog is the site I check the most when it comes... [Read more]

I have seen a lot of people designing blog pages recently that were targeted for kids or subject that kids might be interested in. There has been a rise in webkinz and other subject specific blogs that kids would be interested in. One of the things that I find funny about some of these sites is how unusable they are for kids. Kids don’t have the motor skills that adults have when it comes to clicking on objects and working the mouse. You need to keep that in mind when designing various websites and applications. Also how your search functions will impact the usability, children and young adults don’t have the same thought process as adults do. Spelling, keyword usage, and overall logic isn’t going to match up with adults, this... [Read more]

Time to dive back into interface design and topic that a lot of people usually don’t think about when designing a website or application, universal usability and accessibility. The World Wide Web Consortium developed guidelines for accessibility called Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 which helps develop strategies, guidelines, and resources to help make the Web accessible to people with disabilities. These guidelines are wide ranging and also cover practices that will help people not only with disabilities but people that might have older technology and slower connections. (Check out the list of guidelines here). Now when most of us design a site or application these items aren’t really taken into consideration because... [Read more]

I read this post earlier today, thought I would share it: Should Fractured Feed Reader Comments Raise Blog Owners’ Ire? [Read more]