David Dylan Jessurun does webdesign, SEO/SEM and Usability consulting.
He believes in a holistic apoproach to the web; marketing, (standards-based) design, technology and espresso make for a website which earns you money, ignore one and the others will cost you money.
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Punk Rock and SEO mistakes
Search Engine Optimisation, or SEO, is a lot like Punk Rock once was; it’s largely unexplored territory; it flies in the face of authority, finding tricks to use existing technology to do new things it ...
Boost Your Open Rates
When it comes to permission-based email marketing, offering content of value can significantly boost your open rate. “You will show your value and earn the trust of potential customers,” says Jill ...
Tips for Coding and Designing Usable Web Forms
The web form has been one of the most discussed elements in web design for more than ten years now. We can’t help it. Call-to-action functionality often leads users to a form; purchases are made using forms; ...
Rock Solid HTML emails
At some stage in your career, it’s likely you’ll be asked by a client to design a HTML email.
Before you rush to explain that all the cool kids are using social media, keep in mind that when done ...
Need to build a portfolio?
I do not often do this, but when Jors from Ruwer told me about their service, I immediately felt I wanted to share this. (They are not paying me.)
Have you ever felt, or been told, that your portfolio ...
Why this site sucks
Well, maybe not sucks, but it doesn't validate and is riddled with little annoying issues.
I built this theme for WordPress three incarnations of this site ago. Since then the layout has gone from fixed to ...
A dragon in Photoshop
I play Dungeons & Dragons. I admit it. I love it. Besides; it was my love of games and my interaction with the game's inventor (Gary Gygax, RIP old bear), whom I was proud to call a friend for a while, that ...
Accessible online video for keyboard-only users
When making accessible online video we all tend to think about the needs of blind and deaf users, concentrating on subtitles and transcripts. These features, while essential, can be time-consuming and ...