This is the season to think about shopping, Christmas, and looking back at the year that’s almost over. Here are a few links that connect all of those things and web work. Check it out!
Whether you want to be a smarter holiday shopper by knowing how to identify a quality web store, you’re a web site operator looking to increase sales, or just a designer looking to communicate more effectively on the web, check out this list of 8 Conversion Lessons from the Masters of Ecommerce courtesy of Moz. These are simple reminders about how to apply age old sales concepts and visual techniques to your website, along with some easy to follow guidelines to make navigation less of a hassle for your visitors. Also covers some newer practices like abandoned cart reminders.
24ways.org offers a series of gently written articles that introduce development concepts to readers who may or may not be developers. Revision control, development methodologies, GitHub, browser technologies, and more are presented through an advent calendar of well written easy to read articles. Everyone should check this out.
Have a look at these lists and see how much of the Internet’s most viewed ephemeral content you can remember. For memes there’s Yahoo’s year-end list and of course KnowYourMeme’s best of 2013 . See if you remember trending topics at Twitter’s 2013 Year on Twitter. Or, check your own personal Facebook year in review.
