The Pop Stalin Design blog, The Propaganda Party is coming soon. Not only am I in the process of a redesign but I’ve also decided to switch back from Textpattern to Wordpress and will need some time to reconfigure and such. Besides, there aren’t too many people waiting with bated breath to read what I have to say anyway.
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I’m preparing to work on a new site design that I want to incorporate some accessibility into and in doing so, wanted to take a look at one of my favorite accessibility sites’ stylesheet—456 Berea Street. Roger, in my opinion is an accessibility guru and I learn a lot from him.

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Over at Web Design From Scratch Ben Hunt talks about Royalty-Free Image Libraries and makes some suggestions to paid services. I think his suggestions are worthwhile and you will need to end up belonging to one of the subscription services he suggests. However, I thought I’d share a few links to free services I use as well as one pay service that wasn’t mentioned.
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I’ve been doing some serious thinking and work in regards to site promotion and optimization. I feel it is an area that web designers should have at least a working knowledge in and have taken it upon myself to learn more.

What is SEO?
From SEOmoz:
SEO, a subset of website marketing, focuses on optimizing all of the aspects that affect rankings in the major search engines in order to maximize visitor traffic. Optimization involves researching the right terms to target, modifying the site to be search-engine friendly and marketing/promotion of the site to improve popularity.
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