In this great article by Andrea Vahl, published May 13, 2013, learn about the new facebook cover photo rules allowing you to put calls to action and your website or address information in your Facebook cover photo. This article has links to facilities to test your cover photo to see if it fits the new text restrictions of 20% and it has 9 examples of how businesses are using the new rules.

Youtube just released a new trend map showing which videos are most popular geographically. It can be filtered by age & gender. Pretty cool.

Today’s Steve Jobs birthday and here’s Steve Wozniak remembering his friend.

A London design agency, Strange, has created a site called Pretty IP which upon going to, go ahead click on the link, generates a color palette based on the numbers in your IP address. It’s great! And I really like the color palette for my IP address!

What is an IP address?

An IP address is the unique string of numbers separated by periods that identifies each computer attached to the Internet. You probably don’t know what your IP{ address is and you don’t have to know! Apparently, the team at Strange realized that IP address are built almost identical to RGB color values and they built the Pretty IP site to generate a color palette based on the numbers in your address. Go ahead and find out what your IP address’ color palette looks like!

StudioPress’ theme of the month is the new Metro theme and is it great looking! But we’re not just talking about looks here – it’s also mobile responsive, has 5 color styles, 6 different layout options, and a landing page template.

It’s a spacious 1152 pixel-wide frame, that and it’s flat design, make it very modern! The StudioPress Metro theme is a magazine style theme and it’s layout helps organize and display a lot of content very well. Here’s a good Smashing magazine article about when to use a magazine style theme.

I can’t wait to use it on a web site, maybe yours? Contact me if you are interested in using the new Metro StudioPress theme on your site!

Read this article – The Death of SEO: The Rise of Social, PR, and Real Content

Many websites, personal blogs to Wikipedia, are blacked out today, JANUARY 18, 2012, to protest proposed U.S. legislation that threatens internet freedom: the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA).

Last day of 24 Ways – the advent calendar for web geeks. Each day throughout December a daily dose of web design and development goodness is published to bring those who like this sort of thing a little Christmas cheer. It’s a blog I look forward to reading each year…. and that I go to throughout the year.