So I have a client I’m developing a website for. The client has been great to work with, and we’ve made good progress on the new site. But there was a problem: The client kept complaining that he couldn’t reach his site — he was getting “not found” error messages. He told me that he […]
...Keep reading »A Face Lift in Cape Coral?
I received a well-written, but completely absurd, spam e-mail yesterday. It started out by saying: “I was looking at websites under the keyword face lift cape coral and came across your site tropicalwebworks.com. I see that you’re ranked #1 on page 18 in google. I am not sure if you are aware of why you’re […]
...Keep reading »WordPress Upgrade
WordPress version 2.6 just came out. I installed it from scratch on a new blog. The installation went beautifully, and I liked the new Admin interface.
...Keep reading »Ebay and Linkbaiting
This month I, along with thousands of other eBay affiliates, have been busy little bees converting all of our eBay affiliate links to use the new eBay IDs and format, thanks to eBay’s announcement that they were leaving Commission Junction and taking their affiliate program in-house.
...Keep reading »Minor SEO Changes, Major SEO Effect on a Minor Site
It’s very satisfying to spend a great deal of time developing a new site from scratch for a client, taking pains to ensure that the site is search-engine friendly, and then to see that site do well in the search engines after launch. But it’s also surprisingly satisfying to spend a few hours optimizing a […]
...Keep reading »Ethics and Web Design – The Professional Responsibility of the Web Designer
Apparently I’m part of a small minority of web developers who believe that the developer has a level of professional responsibility toward the client, regardless of whether the client knows, understands, or requests same.
...Keep reading »The News Online: Usability is Lacking
Daily newspapers have been fighting decreasing readership and falling subscriptions for at least a couple of decades now. More and more, newspapers are putting their content online. For that I salute them. But the web is now about 15 years old, and I wonder why so many newspapers still don’t manage to get some of […]
...Keep reading »WordPress vs. Blogger
Sometimes, one of my clients wants or needs a blog. And the question always arises, should they use one of the free hosted blogging platforms, such as Typepad or Blogger or a hosted blog at WordPress.com, or should they download the WordPress software from WordPress.org and host it on their own site?
...Keep reading »Network Solutions Caught Front Running
“We had to destroy the village in order to save it, sir!” That was basically the response of Network Solutions when it was caught with its hand in the cookie jar, registering domains for themselves that people had looked up in their whois registry. NetSol basically defended their contemptible practice by saying, “In order to […]
...Keep reading »Phishing and Phishing Detection
I recently had 2 diametrically opposite experiences with phishing. In the world of the Internet, “phishing” is when some entity (a scammer) — typically, a website or e-mail sender — pretends to be some organization that a user has a relationship with, and attempts to entice the user into providing personal and confidential information (such […]
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