Day: May 9, 2006

Daryl Hannah has a videoblog. Sort of… See dhlovelife.com

There aren’t really comments, or permalinks, or descriptions, or much metadata, and the feed is currently invalid. (The length attribute should be the file size of the video, not the length of playing time, confusing, I know…)

Still, I’m a big fan of Daryl (more for her green & organic living than for her movies) so I’ll cut her some slack for all the little issues, and it does say “full site this summer” so, maybe things will change.

I had been hoping that under the hood would be Movable Type, or better yet, WordPress, which would probably make some of the issues I mentioned go away, but no such luck.

So besides seeing valid XHTML served up as utf-8 rather than iso-8859-1, and proper archives, comments, and all the other little things, the content itself is great. Daryl, if you need help with your site, let me know… (P.S. Feel free to use embedthevideo.com)

(Update: The feed should be valid now. Thanks Daryl!)

When potential customers come to your web site, there is a chance they are doing so for information. I know, you think that people just want to be entertained, but occasionally, we want something from you, like a phone number or address. Make it easy on your potential customers, and don’t put your phone number or address in an image, or in a Flash movie, put it in text. Text can be easily copied from your website and pasted into an email, or address book, or calendar.

People appreciate being able to copy and paste text. They do not appreciate having to retype it. You will get the added bonus of having search engines index the text as well, which can help bring more of those potential customers to your web site.

In fact, I’d go so far as to say put it on all the pages of your site. Put it down at the bottom, in the footer. Trust me, people will appreciate this. I know I do…