I have spent the last few days redesigning my personal blog from scratch with a totally new look and feel. The motivation for this came from multiple sources, including the desire to practice my design skills by creating something new (which was not fully satiated by designing my new mini-site recently).

So you built a website. The design is beautiful, the content is filled in, and it has been submitted to all of the major search engines. Maybe you have even purchased a bit of ad space on Google or another PPC network. So why is no one visiting your site? Turns out that there's a lot more that goes into bringing visitors to your site (and keeping them there) than what many people initially realize. 

Molly Holzschlag's talk tonight has given me some much-needed inspiration for my (now late) weekly blog post. Some of the things that she had to say about Internet Explorer 6 have prompted me to cogitate on the way that we treat this dinosaur of a browser at my company.

The Interwebs have been ablaze over the last few months with articles and commentary regarding HTML5. While this is remarkable in and of itself given that HTML5 will not be officially ready until the year 2022, the fact that browsers are starting to implement some of the features from the current draft of the language has triggered some interesting comments.