Archive for April, 2010

Create Your Own “Search Story”

If you watched the Superbowl back in February, then you likely caught Google "Parisian Love" ad. The ad tells the story of a young man who moves to Paris, meets a girl, falls in love, and eventually starts a family. This otherwise cliche story was made into a very creative ad by telling the entire story through search queries. Using only video from a computer screen it shows searches like "how to impress a French girl" and "what are truffles" to guide the television audience through the story ...

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Plugin Monday: Lightbox Plus

With over 92,000 all-time downloads, Lightbox Plus is a very popular solution for displaying large images elegantly in a WordPress blog. Lightbox Plus displays images in a pop-up, framed box while darkening the rest of your site. This is a much more elegant and user-friendly solution than either shrinking large images down or leaving them to be displayed as an image-only page.

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11 Essentials of Writing a High-Quality RFP

photo credit: DeaPeaJay Requests for proposal for websites—or RFPs as they’re often called—can be difficult to write, especially for non-technical customers. So, I thought I’d draft a set of guidelines specifically geared toward non-profits working the public policy world—the core audience of ReadyMadeWeb.

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