The moz.com Local Search Ranking Factor Survey Moz.com, announced their annual local search ranking factor survey this summer. In a moz blog post, David Mihm provided a preliminary summary of the survey in a pie chart (not shown.) http://moz.com/blog/local-search-ranking-factors-2013, August 7th, 2013. The Over –Arching Results Are Summarized As Follows: ~67% (Each of the first 4 factors are weighted equally...
Last week, I wrote “More Useful Tools in Web Development” where I discussed some tools that I recently found to be useful in my development process. Today, I will focus more on Twitter Bootstrap and share my thoughts as a front end web developer on this framework. Overview Bootstrap was developed by Twitter. Bootstrap 3 was recently released in August...
Something I have been working on recently is improving the composition of the videos I create. Due to the fact I work on animation and live-action videos almost equally this has presented a unique learning opportunity, and also a challenge. For animation, keeping scene composition in mind has to be maintained from the point of view of raw implementation. What...
User Experience is a topic I have covered in other blogs but I recently read the book “The Elements of User Experience” by Jesse James Garrett and found out that I was really only scratching the surface. Garrett breaks down the overall process of designing for user experience into 6 pieces that flow together. Using these 6 checkpoints can ensure...
What Is “Hummingbird”? Google has a new algorithm, the system they use to return results for queries and searches you enter into Google. This new algorithm is called “Hummingbird“, because it is “quick and precise” according to Google. The announcement was made on September 26, in the garage that Sergey and Larry rented when Google first started taking off. Not...
What Is “Hummingbird”? Google has a new algorithm, the system they use to return results for queries and searches you enter into Google. This new algorithm is called “Hummingbird“, because it is “quick and precise” according to Google. The announcement was made on September 26, in the garage that Sergey and Larry rented when Google first started taking off. Not...
At Blueprint, we are always finding ingenious ways to take care of our client’s needs, give them great service and a quality product. One of the most difficult operations we perform, and the one requiring a lot of ingenuity, is Media Conversion. Media Conversion takes many different shapes and forms. Many of our clients that need Media Conversion bring in...
Blender 3D is a fantastic tool available for everything in your 3D production pipeline. It has grown by leaps and bounds in the past couple of years, with the introduction of the cycles rendering engine taking point as arguably its most exciting development. Achieving photorealism is one of the most sought after goals of any 3D production studio. It can...
301 redirects are a search engine friendly way to redirect an old or un-used page to a new page, file or domain. 301’s are a vital part of search engine optimization because they allow you to pass page rank from an old page or domain without losing the page rank of the current url. This is very important when redirecting...
Since Google announced that page speed is a factor that will influence your website ranking, here at Blueprint we tried to pay more attention to websites optimization. Even though optimization should be done anyway sometimes somebody have to push you harder. Now, we always keep an eye how the website is performing and adjust it if something doesn’t go well....
