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6 Twitter Marketing DOs and DON’Ts

Julie Cameron — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:38:11 +0000

Three years after Twitter‘s inception in 2006, the great marketers of the Twittersphere continue to surprise me on an almost daily basis by finding new and exciting ways of getting their name out. At the same time, there are still far more marketers out there that just aren’t sure how to use Twitter to their [...]

Boost Your Ruby Efficiency with Textmate

John Paul Narowski — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:50:31 +0000

Here at MetaSpring, we’re avid fans of the TextMate text editor because it makes developing web apps a breeze through the use of its hotkeys, snippets, and bundles. TextMate comes with a plethora of basic language bundles – all of which come with their own set of custom hotkeys and snippets designed specifically for that [...]

5 Tips for Differentiating Your Design Mocks

Ian Wilson — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:19:01 +0000

A designer's greatest challenge isn't necessarily in coming up with a good design, but in coming up with a good design that is different. When the client is expecting multiple design mock ups finding the balance between a design that is innovative and unique while also maintaining a high level of usability can feel like an uphill struggle. Here are 5 tips to get started and differentiate your design mocks ups.

The Ultimate Ecommerce Reference Guide Part 1: Maximizing Your Store’s Usability

John Paul Narowski — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:50:16 +0000

Over the last decade, Ecommerce applications have evolved into a highly competitive art form - needing more than just a simple product listing to succeed. Thankfully, years of experimentation have allowed us to analyze and distinguish the successful Ecommerce techniques from the not-so-successful ones. This article is the first of a three part series dedicated [...]

Getting Started With DoFollow Link Building

John Paul Narowski — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:33:04 +0000

Recently, there's been a movement amongst bloggers to remove the NoFollow tags from comments posted on their blogs (What is NoFollow?). Removing NoFollow tags allows link juice from the URL included in your comment to be passed on to your site, helping it move up in rankings. This post will help explain how to locate [...]

Establishing Your Brand’s Legacy

Ian Wilson — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:31:17 +0000

When it’s your job to promote and nurture the brands of your clients, developing and promoting your own brand can often be an even tougher job. As people, we tend to define ourselves and those around us by what we do. It’s only natural, but when you begin to define your brand around what you [...]

Change Is In The Air

Julie Cameron — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:58:51 +0000

Well, it’s been one very busy summer here, at MetaSpring! Unfortunately, we were forced to go on a bit of a blogging hiatus in order to keep up with everything, but we’re back now and we’re doing better than ever! These last few months have given us the opportunity to re-examine our goals as a [...]

Will You Follow the DoFollow Movement?

John Paul Narowski — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:16:08 +0000

What is Nofollow, Dofollow? Nofollow is an attribute that can be added to a hyperlink preventing Google from passing link credit to that site rel=”nofollow”. Link credit is one of the major factors Google considers when determining how authoritative your site is. You will these tags on to blog comments, and on sites like Wikipedia. [...]

5 Ways Your Business Can Embrace Micro-blogging

Julie Cameron — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:45:22 +0000

As more and more people flock to these strangely addictive platforms, businesses are looking for ways in which they can participate, as well. Clearly, the biggest opportunity for micro-blogging in business is public relations, but I’ll be offering up a few other applications as well.

Using Rails Migrations as part of a Simple Installation Script

Carson Keith — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:00:24 +0000

Rails Migrations provide an easy way to make versioned revisions to your database structure over a period of time. When used properly they can make it easy to make modifications to your existing database programmatically as you need to make changes. This is extremely helpful for large up-and-running projects, but what about projects that are [...]