Tim Priebe - timjpriebe.com » blog http://www.timjpriebe.com Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:55:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 First copy of Blogify Your Business (sort of) http://www.timjpriebe.com/2010/02/01/first-copy-of-blogify-your-business-sort-of/ http://www.timjpriebe.com/2010/02/01/first-copy-of-blogify-your-business-sort-of/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:41:56 +0000 Tim Priebe http://www.timjpriebe.com/?p=215 When I worked on my last book, Webifiable, one of the things I did was order a physical mock-up of the final book from Lulu.com, with Lorem ipsum text in the place of the real text. I call it my motivational copy, as seeing a physical book helps motivate me to finish the actual book.

Well, Emily finished the cover design (first draft) for my next book, Blogify Your Business, and she ordered a motivational copy last week. It showed up today.

Didn’t she do an awesome job? Thanks, Emily!

P.S. Yes, that is an affiliate link to my own book. I’m nothing if not shameless.

]]> http://www.timjpriebe.com/2010/02/01/first-copy-of-blogify-your-business-sort-of/feed/ 0 Smashing Magazine stole my image, and I like it! http://www.timjpriebe.com/2009/09/15/smashing-magazine-stole-my-image-and-why-i-like-it/ http://www.timjpriebe.com/2009/09/15/smashing-magazine-stole-my-image-and-why-i-like-it/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:10:07 +0000 Tim Priebe http://www.timjpriebe.com/?p=58 I’m a fan of Smashing Magazine, an online magazine for web professionals. It’s pretty popular and frequently ranks well among web designers and web programmers. Alexa* ranks it 1,081 among all websites on the online.

About a week and a half ago, I was checking out their latest articles, when I discovered a familiar looking image in their article, 10 Useful WordPress Hook Hacks. Sure enough, I checked out an article I wrote on T&S’s blog back in 2008 about checking your website in multiple browsers.

Smashing Magazine's Article Original image on the T&S blog

So why do I like it? I figured out the reason they used it is because it currently ranks #2 on Google’s search results for the phrase browser logos. So it’s a nice statement to our search engine optimization skills over at T&S. And since I’m currently doing all our optimization work myself, it’s a testament to my personal SEO skills.

Yeah, I’m pretty awesome.

* If you’re not familiar with Alexa, they’re somewhat like the Nielsen ratings, but for websites.

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Oh, thanks to Emily Spirek for assuring me that my design looked fine. Thanks to Komodo Media, Rogie King for the Social Network Icon Pack (more info on site credit page). And thanks to myself for coding it.

You’re welcome, Tim.

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