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Drew StaufferAn industry design veteran who has successfully conquered both coasts, Drew Stauffer combines innovation with web standards to bring a blend of usability and creative vision to every project. As Director of Development for Wildfire Productions and CEO of Alibi Productions, Drew leaves no development stone unturned. He has published many articles on web standards and has been featured on WebProNews and Google News, and his companies count The Hyatt, BMW, and Michelin among their many satisfied clients.

A Little Bit For You

Posted on July 16, 2008

It’s been super busy lately with freelance and the corporate job, but I’ve managed to get out a new Wordpress theme. Elements of SEO was launched a few weeks ago and it has received some really nice traffic and downloads.

Elements of SEO is a really clean, minimalistic design with a main focus on content and typography. Crafted for the true blogger, this theme will not let you down when it comes to your rankings or listings either.

Read all about it from the post or go straight to the download and demo. Either way you gotta try it out.


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Monthly Update and Links

Posted on May 14, 2008

May was an incredibly busy month for me both at Alibi and Jackson-Dawson. Here are a few things that I’ve been working on.

Also the crew and I at Jackson-Dawson have started a new blog, Cure for Common Marketing. It should be exciting to see the way a traditional advertising agency takes on a blog.


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Sure has been a long time

Posted on April 23, 2008

I know it seems like I haven’t been around. And its not really like I’m here now either. This is just an example of what a trackback will look like on my new Wordpress theme, Elements of SEO.

Come check it out and snag yourself a free new theme.


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Do You Need a 10,000 SEO Budget?

Posted on October 30, 2007

Whether you’re a designer or developer; mom and pop store or Fortune 500 company, you need to optimize your website in the proper fashion. The days of designing a website and seeing where the chips land are over. If you want to be successful online, you need the proper optimization.

I recently wrote an easy 13 step guide to on-site SEO that anyone who has access to their content can increase and take control of their rankings. Many of the on-site steps are easy to implement and that’s why a lot of people over look them.

If you’re looking to increase your rankings, check out the SEO guide and if you still need help, feel free to contact me with any SEO questions or concerns.


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Stealing is Never O.K.

Posted on August 18, 2007

I’m all for looking at other designers for inspiration in my own work, but I always try and take an “idea” from another designer…never the actual design.

I received a comment on my wildfire blog and naturally I wanted to check out who was nice enough to take the time. The second I saw the design I said, “that aint dan.” Dan Cederholm, a designer that I have tremendous respect for and consistently research his code has an outstanding portfolio. Naturally other people tend to steal his work and try to pass it off as their own. One day I spent an hour on Flickr reading an arugument about a company that blatantly stole Dan’s logo, but that’s a different story.

Anyways, I followed the link from the nice comment and this is what I found.

ripoff

Dan Cederholm and Dan Benjamin launched Cork’d in 2005 and this new domain looks like it was created just a few months ago.

corkd

Looking at the code, you can see that they didn’t even remove parts of the code from the Cork’d website they just commented it out. This is a blatant ripoff.

ripoff code

I urge you to take a look at both of these sites and see what you think. You can see their urls in the images.


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Logo Notion by Steff Geissbuhler | HOW Design Conference Atlanta

Posted on July 19, 2007

Steff Geisbuhler is one of the world’s leading designers of logos & corporate identity programs. Steff was awarded the AIGA Medal for lifetime achievement in Graphic Design in 2005. He’s created identities for clients as diverse as Barney’s New York, Merck, NBC, National Public Radio and Time Warner.

Steff’s presentation on logos broke down into six main categories:

  1. Appropriate
  2. Legible
  3. Memorable
  4. Flexible
  5. Consistent
  6. Lasting

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