Copyright law seems to be poorly misunderstood by a great many people. I’m not an attorney, and I’m particularly not a copyright or intellectual property attorney, but I believe I have an informed layman’s understanding of copyright matters. Knowing the … Read the rest »
Watch Out for Domain Registrar Phishing Attacks
November 5, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Official-looking e-mails appear to be from prominent registrars — they’re really attempts to steal your domains
Both eNom and Network Solutions, two very large registrars that handle millions of domain registrations, are the target of a major phishing attack. It … Read the rest »
Maximize Your Return in Your Pay-Per-Click Real Estate Advertising
November 4, 2008 By Leave a Comment
A good many of my clients are Realtors, and a good many Realtors throw away money on ineffective pay-per-click advertising because they haven’t taken the time to educate themselves on the tremendous opportunity afforded by this type of advertising. Pay-per-click … Read the rest »
Didjoo Vote?
November 4, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I voted. Had to hold my nose on some of my choices, but I did it. This would have been a good year to have NOTA as a choice.
Unbeknownst to me, my precinct moved since the last time I … Read the rest »
NetBiz sez: “Get onto the first page of Google….”
October 29, 2008 By 3 Comments
Just in the past few days I’ve responded to several e-mails from clients asking my advice regarding e-mails that they’ve received from NetBiz. Here’s my take on NetBiz:
I’m not a fan of NetBiz. They’re not necessarily a scam, but … Read the rest »
The Web: The Rules Are Different Here
October 27, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Tonight we’re enjoying our first fire of the season in our fireplace. It’s quite a cheery little blaze.
The only thing is, since we live in south Florida, it’s really not cool enough yet for a fire. We had to … Read the rest »
Search vs. Direct Navigation
July 29, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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 … Read the rest »
A Face Lift in Cape Coral?
July 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment
WordPress Upgrade
July 17, 2008 By Leave a Comment
WordPress version 2.6 just came out. I installed it from scratch on a new blog (Fix My Knee, a chronicle of my many knee surgeries). The installation went beautifully, and I liked the new Admin interface. … Read the rest »
Ebay and Linkbaiting
April 10, 2008 By 6 Comments
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 … Read the rest »
Minor SEO Changes, Major SEO Effect on a Minor Site
March 28, 2008 By 2 Comments
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 … Read the rest »
Ethics and Web Design – The Professional Responsibility of the Web Designer
March 14, 2008 By 2 Comments
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. … Read the rest »
The News Online: Usability is Lacking
March 12, 2008 By 3 Comments
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 … Read the rest »
My New SEO Principle
March 6, 2008 By Leave a Comment
WordPress vs. Blogger
January 12, 2008 By 9 Comments
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 … Read the rest »
Network Solutions Caught Front Running
January 11, 2008 By Leave a Comment
“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 … Read the rest »
Phishing and Phishing Detection
January 5, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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 … Read the rest »
