Meet my new site
As you can see, I have a brand new website. (Well, you can’t see it if you’re reading this via an RSS reader, so do you mind clicking through just this once?)
Rather than posting something long, I’ll give you a chance to have a look around. But I do have some people to thank, most importantly Rikki Bochow and Stuart Steel at Acorn Web who built the site for me.
I think Rikki’s done a fantastic job of designing an attractive site that’s almost all text. And Stu isn’t just generous with his employees’ time; he’s also a fount of great ideas.
One of his best ideas, in fact, was the “interactive demo” which you can get to from every non-blog page on the site. Have a look at it, it’s pretty nifty. While we’re at it, I’ve got an offer for you, loyal readers (or some of you at least). If you’ve made it all the way through the demo, you’ll see that one of the things I try to illustrate is the importance of links.
Here’s the offer
The only thing is, the bits of linked text in the demo don’t point to anything yet. Would you like one of them to point to something you’ve written? I’d be happy to do so, if you’ve written something that clearly and succinctly illustrates one of the following points:
- Most web users don’t have a lot of time and are doing several things at once
- On the web people tend to skim
- Use keywords strategically (rather than stuffing your site with them)
- Make link text useful to readers
- Tell readers what you want them to do next
So if you have anything that might be suitable, drop me a line. (If you have more than one, feel free to send me all of them, but I won’t publish more than one link per person.) No strings!
Oh, and before anyone suggests this, I’m already planning to offer a bookmark/Stumble friendly version of the demo.
Anyway, enjoy the website, and I’d love to hear your feedback. (This to Glenn at Divine Write for the very useful feedback he’s already given.)
