If content is King for tourism and destination marketing online, then design is certainly Queen. Not to ignore the priceless value in SEO, but SEO is tracked because of the content, as well as in addition to. The layout, ease of navigation, color scheme and overall branding of your site also plays a huge part [...]
Destination marketing with Twitter
My former stomping grounds, Seattle, and employer, Seattle’s Convention and Visitors Bureau, has a wonderful asset at the helm of their Visitor Center – Ann Peavey. Ann’s twitter handle is appropriately @SeattleMaven, a self-described “Seattle’s Know-It-All, History Buff, Concierge & Visitor Information Maven, Food & Wine Enthusiast, Aficionado of Good Hygiene, and Worshipper of the [...]
A thesis of Thesis
Here in the blogosphere, there’s a miracle blog platform known as WordPress. Lots of kind folks have designed beautiful FREE WordPress themes sure to please any blogger’s taste and style. Some of the more exotic or complex themes are available for a fee, including the phenomenal Thesis theme, created by DIYthemes.com. Customizing Thesis Thesis was [...]
Vermont Quilt Festival 2009
I’m always looking for ways to stoke my creativity, whether for personal projects or just to explore a new design angle or school of thought. Usually my good ol’ Moleskin journal is just the ticket, but since I really enjoy being a tourist (but not looking like one) I like to check out oddball festivals, [...]
Hosting service – you get what you pay for
Today brought to a close a series of obstacles brought on by trying to switch a client’s über-cheap hosting service to a more professional and reliable service, Media Temple. What should have been just a couple of clicks to update the DNS (name server) turned out to be an odyssey across 3 continents, 4 [...]
