Author Archives: Josh Kinal
About Josh Kinal
Josh Kinal specialises in content strategy with Soupgiant. A writer and broadcaster since 1993, he turned his hand to the web in 2005 and has not looked back since.
He hosts and produces the weekly Boxcutters podcast, bringing people information about the whole world of television since 2005.
Content Strategy: Always Start with Content
January 17, 2009
Whether creating a new website for your business or just updating an old one, the question remains: “How, amongst all the noise on the web, are my potential clients going to find me?”
Tags: Content Strategy, information architecture, marketing, search engines, seo
Behind the Websites: Links opening in new windows
July 8, 2008
Yes I have firm views. Take that as a given. Since long before I could code, however, I’ve always been critical of websites that open their links in another window.
Back in the days before browser tabs, a whole new window would open either above or below the window you were currently working on. It was terrible and unstoppable.
Behind the Websites: Visual Editors are both good and bad
June 20, 2008
One of the biggest problems with building a CMS is how much control to give users over the design of any particular page.
Wordpress, for example, gives very little control to the end user. There are styles set up in the css for paragraphs, lists, block-quotes and the like. Basically only giving structural control of the content to the user.
Tags: Content Management, visual editors