October 4th, 2010 - by Jeff Wagner
The web design of the Jeff Wagner Interactive was featured in a recent post on Reencoded.com as one of “40 Powerful Black Web Designs.”
I couldn’t agree more with what Reencoded wrote about using dark backgrounds to help boost the important aspects or content areas on your website. This is exactly the mindset that I had when designing this site.
Take a look at this great collection of website designs that utilize dark backgrounds, I’m very honored to be featured with so many creative designs.
September 24th, 2010 - by Jeff Wagner
Just booked my trip to Denver so that I can attend GetListed.org’s Local University SEO Conference on October 21, 2010. Many different friends and colleagues have commented on how valuable these workshops are and that the tips, tricks and advice are second to none.
Talk about a great opportunity to listen and learn from some of the most talented experts in search engine optimization including representatives from the Bing Local Listing Center. On top of that, local SEO & Web everything expert Aaron Weiche of Five Technology is going to be speaking as well on how to create major opportunities for small businesses.
I also look forward to seeing all the fun and trendy areas of Denver since this will be my first time to the city. I’ve heard so many cool things about Denver and when I saw that a SEO conference was going to be there I had to jump at the opportunity.
I’ll make sure to post photos and comments to this blog and to my twitter account at @jw_design.
Denver here I come!
September 8th, 2010 - by Jeff Wagner
Foursquare isn’t new anymore for most people familiar with social media but still there seems to be a major disconnect with the proper etiquette of how to use it. For those of you who don’t use or know what Foursquare is here’s a very quick description. Foursquare is a location-based social networking website & app where people can check in via their phones and gain points/badges to earn prizes or discounts from the restaurant or business
their at.
Anyways, here’s the problem that I have with it. Every time someone checks in at a location it posts your “check in” on Twitter and or Facebook. Example: (Jeff Wagner is at Caribou Coffee in Maple Grove, MN. http:4sq.com/maplegrove).
This is EXTREMELY annoying and really you should take a few seconds and turn off this option. Imagine if you’re like me and use Twitter quite frequently and every 3 posts on your twitter page is a check in from Foursquare. So out of the 20 posts that my page shows by default 5 or 6 are completely worthless information to me. Can you see the frustration?
I love using Twitter, I think it’s a fantastic way to get real time information and I use it for the latest and greatest details within my industry. I just wish I wouldn’t have to filter through all the unnecessary posts.
Maybe I’m the only one that feels this way, does anyone else feel the same?
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