Viget Labs - We Build Web Business

Our Work - We think it speaks for itself:

Passionately providing clients web strategy, design, development, and marketing services to achieve remarkable success online. - Since 1999

Squidoo — Everyone's an expert at something. We loved helping Seth Godin create what Daily Candy calls "Friendster meets Wikipedia." Learn More »

We work with startups:

Squidoo Pay The Fan ODEO Loladex

And offline businesses:

EarthEcho Kettler
Rails Developer Wanted

Rails LogoWe'd like to hire another stellar Rails developer near DC. Do you know her (or him)?

Viget Advance - Strategy

Strategists writing about social media, trends, UX, opinions, & our industry. Read »

Viget Extend - Development

Developers blogging about Ruby on Rails, events, trends, tips, and other geeky stuff. Read »

Viget Engage - Marketing

The marketing team, talking social media, SEO and PPC, Analytics, and web traffic. Read »

  • “

    Xuanyi, thanks for chiming in. You are correct. Google’s heat map is based on ad performance from their AdSense data, whereas my heat map shows where a sample of content sites are actually...

    ”     Kevin Vigneault on Banner Ad Placement Heat Map
  • “

    Hey mate,
    I noticed you mentioned that the observed common placements do not match up closely with Google’s suggestion.

    This is where I think you might have went a little askew. What you...

    ”     Pressyo - Chewxy on Banner Ad Placement Heat Map
  • “

    I’ve never really thought about this before, but yes – we do use dice a lot when rating stuff.

    For me it’s easier to interpret a dice (counting its ‘eyes’) than to count lit-up stars....

    ”     Hein Haraldson Berg on Rating Stuff in Norway
  • “

    @Samantha, I’m not aware of a “find/replace font” function. That essentially would be exactly what we need, which is a type styles feature/palette. It’s indeed unfortunate, and is one good...

    ”     Peyton Crump on Photoshop Type Time Savers
  • “

    Sorry,

    NOT

    CTRL + SHIFT + T

    but

    CTRL + SHIFT + Click

    ;)

    ”     kaske on Photoshop Type Time Savers
  • “

    @Peyton

    Issue:
    I’ve noticed that when you were creating a new (type) layer you clicked on the layer itself to “reset” (de-focus from the layer) the cursor and enable typing in a new...

    ”     kaske on Photoshop Type Time Savers
  • “

    Tony,

    I understand and agree that the back-end shouldn’t output code (html code), and only content. The templates (aka views) should do the trick, but instead of having lot’s of if/else...

    ”     Joan Piedra on Simple jQuery Solution to Provide…
  • “

    The clutter thing still doesn’t reach through to me, but I may just be spoiled with a great CMS with a great template system. There’s no PHP, RoR or Django (or whatever) clutter to think...

    ”     Hein Haraldson Berg on Simple jQuery Solution to Provide…
  • “

    @Joan: You’re right - the dynamically-added content provides no additional value to spiders or bots, but in this specific case the relevant content (e.g. “Appliances") is already present. ...

    ”     Tony Pitale on Simple jQuery Solution to Provide…
  • “

    Glad I could help (read: be a sounding board) in a small way = ) Email me again if you need anything else!

    ”     Josh Chambers on How To Track Internal Links…
  • “

    Thanks Josh, the issue I was experiencing with GA is now fixed.  After days of tests and trials, I found out that the source of my issue was the single quotes around the URL name...

    ”     ultrasound on How To Track Internal Links…
  • “

    Finally! This is great to hear, I know it won’t be perfect to start. But I have faith in the Big G to iron out all of the kinks. Flash is really becoming the mainstream for big budget...

    ”     email templates on Google is Indexing Flash: Hooray…