Kyle Schaeffer - Interactive Media Design » Website http://kyleschaeffer.com Veteran web designer Kyle Schaeffer brings you tips, tricks, and best practices in interactive media design. Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:26:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Splat! http://kyleschaeffer.com/personal/splat/ http://kyleschaeffer.com/personal/splat/#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:01:57 +0000 Kyle http://www.kyleschaeffer.com/?p=518 The designer in me seems to live in a perpetual state where I regard my six-months-previous-self as an “idiot,” and I think that the latest and greatest design I’ve just come up with is the best thing since sliced bread. Welcome…this is my latest and greatest design. I’m sure I’ll hate the high-contrast and dark background in another six months, but I’m digging it for now. Let me know what you think. I’ve been playing around with typography quite a bit lately, and I have to say that I’m starting to enjoy this new “type is coming to the web” phenomenon quite a bit. I got an idea in my head this evening and went from concept to complete WordPress theme in about three hours. Gotta love that WordPress…

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I’ll be giving a quick presentation of this project at an upcoming event, Refresh Winchester, next Thursday, April 1. If you’re in the area, be sure to stop by and see how I approached this project from concept to complete. Mostly, you’ll get to hear about all the stupid mistakes I made and how in subsequent revisions, I learned from those mistakes in my journey to SEO success. I’m happy to see that I’ve made it to page one for my targeted keywords, “video game rankings,” which I’m extremely excited about. I only recently delved into the depths of what makes a site SEO-friendly, so seeing my newly learned techniques and tweaks come to fruition has been an extremely rewarding experience for me.

Take a look, let me know what you think, and even sign up for an account if you’re so inclined!

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]]> http://kyleschaeffer.com/personal/did-you-notice/feed/ 1 New Server, New Theme http://kyleschaeffer.com/personal/new-server-new-theme/ http://kyleschaeffer.com/personal/new-server-new-theme/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:52:23 +0000 Kyle http://www.kyleschaeffer.com/?p=169 In the process of moving my blog to a new web server, I decided to take this opportunity to create a new theme for the site. The theme changes depending on what time of day or time of the year that you visit, so check back often! I’ll continue to add little customizations for holidays, special occasions, etc. (what a wonderful use of my time it is to create little meaningless PNG images). Let me know what you think.

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