The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) is back with another marketing rap. This time he d
The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) is back with another marketing rap. This time he describes how web standards and proper design can affect the ranking and conversion of pages on your site. lyrics:Your site design is the first thing people see it should be reflective of you and the industry easy to look at with a nice navigation when you can't find what you want it causes frustration a clear Call to action to increase the temptation use appealing graphics they create motivation if you have animation use with moderation cause search engines can't index the information display the logos of all your associations highlight your contact info that's an obligation create a clean design you can use some decoration but to try to prevent any client hesitation every page that they click should provide and explanation should be easy to understand like having a conversation when you design the style go ahead and use your imagination but make sure you use correct color combinations do some investigation, look at other organizations but don't duplicate or you might face a litigation design done, congratulations but it's time to start construction follow these instructions when you move into production your photoshop functions then slice that design do your layout with divs make sure that it's aligned please don't use tables even though they work fine when it come to indexing they give searches a hard time make it easy for the spiders to crawl what you provide remove font type, font color and font size no background colors, keep your coding real neat, tag your look and feel on a separate style sheet better results with xml and css now you making progress, a lil closer to success describe your doctype so the browser can relate make sure you do it great or it won't validate check in all browsers, I do it directly gotta make sure that it renders correctly some use IE, some others use Flock some use AOL, I use Firefox title everything including links and images don't use italics, use emphasis don't use bold, please use strong if you use bold that's old and wrong when you use CSS, you page will load quicker client satisfied like they eating on a snicker they stuck on your page like you made it with a sticker and then they convert now that's the real kicker make you a lil richer, your site a lil slicker design and code right man I hope you get the picture what I'm telling you is true man it should be a scripture if it's built right you'll be the pick of the litter everyone will want to follow you like twitter competition will get bitter and you'll shine like glitter if you trying to grow your company will get bigger design and code right man can you get with it
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During our stay at Madikwe Safari Lodge (a CCAfrica managed luxury camp) in the North-West
During our stay at Madikwe Safari Lodge (a CCAfrica managed luxury camp) in the North-West of South Africa, the week of September 10, we were charged by a cow elephant.
One moment we were watching the elephants at the side of the road and the next the ranger started maneuvering the vehicle unexpectedly (you'll see the video only shows grass at this point).
Then suddenly we realized why, the elephant was right on top of us, probably no more 10 meters away charging and trumpeting at us.
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On an Indian Safari holiday arranged by 'India Safaris & Tours' and visiting the new Taj /
On an Indian Safari holiday arranged by 'India Safaris & Tours' and visiting the new Taj / CC Africa lodges
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Final version now available! http://youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g http://mediatedcult
Final version now available! http://youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g http://mediatedcultures.net
Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes.
This is the 2nd draft, and I plan on doing one more final draft. Please leave comments on what could be changed or improved, or what needs to be excluded or included. Subscribe if you want to be notified when the revision is released.
UPDATE: I just added this video to Mojiti where you can actually write your comments into the video itself. It is an exciting experiment in "Video 2.0". Go check it out at http://mojiti.com/kan/2024/3313 and add your voice!
Transcripts are now available as well: http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=78
A couple of people have noted that the statement, "XML was created to do just that" (separate form from content) is misleading because CSS enables the same effect with HTML. I tried to integrate CSS into the video, but it ruined the flow. Perhaps in the next draft.
My statement on XML is based on the following from xml.com: "In order to appreciate XML, it is important to understand why it was created. XML was created so that richly structured documents could be used over the web. The only viable alternatives, HTML and SGML, are not practical for this purpose. HTML, as we've already discussed, comes bound with a set of semantics and does not provide arbitrary structure."
Thank you all for the comments. With your help the next draft will be cleaned up and hopefully free of factual errors.
A higher quality version is available for download here: http://www.mediafire.com/?6duzg3zioyd Please note that this is the second draft and the final version will not be available until late February after I review all comments and revise the video. Please return for a new download link at that time.
The song is "There's Nothing Impossible" by Deus, available for free at http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/103/ Deus offers music under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license, yet one more example of the interlinking of people sharing and collaborating this video is attempting to illustrate.
CC: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
Michael Wesch Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology Kansas State University
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