I have Firefox 5 and Firefox 6 installed on my Mac. Nice browser, still my favorite, but it’s got a bug that’s making me batty!
If I have the focused Firefox window on my secondary monitor, I can’t open a … 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 »
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 »
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 »
Bad Hosting Costs $$ and Wastes Time
October 16, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Poor hosting companies waste time and cost money.
I needed to set up a MySQL database for a client recently. The client hosts their website with a large and well-known hosting company, which advertises MySQL available with all hosting packages. … Read the rest »
Correcting Bad Information
October 1, 2007 By Leave a Comment
The amount of misinformation out there on the web is almost enough to make a person crazy. I ran across a few statements today that were so baldly wrong that I have to correct them here. … Read the rest »
No NoFollow, NoSnitching
April 25, 2007 By 4 Comments
The infamous Google spam czar Matt Cutts has fired another round at honest webmasters just trying to go about their daily work. In a recent blog post, He invited readers to report web sites buying or selling links that are … Read the rest »
Dumb Error Messages
January 23, 2007 By 1 Comment
Microsoft is the master, but many, many programmers and software development companies are guilty. I can’t count the number of times I’ve had the most meaningless error messages pop up on my computer screen.
What set me off this morning? … Read the rest »
No NoFollow
January 14, 2007 By 2 Comments
I just edited the files in my wordpress template to remove all traces of the rel=”nofollow” attribute from links in this blog. All links, including those in comments and signatures, are now your basic bog-standard “follow” links. … Read the rest »
Missing images
January 14, 2007 By Leave a Comment
For about the umpteenth time, this morning I responded to a question on a newsgroup by some poor soul who didn’t understand why the images weren’t showing up on his web page. The links were correct. The images were uploaded … Read the rest »
Web site development, SEO, and Hippocrates
January 13, 2007 By Leave a Comment
What do web site development, search engine optimization and Hippocrates have in common? A line from the Hippocratic Oath comes to mind: First, do no harm. In a previous post, I touched on how the technological factors underlying a web … Read the rest »
