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 »
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 »
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 »
“Crawlability,” Web Design, and SEO
September 26, 2007 By 3 Comments
So I got a gentle tweak from Zack Katkin at Unique ID Web Design because I haven’t blogged in a while. I’ve been busy working on projects for clients, but I know that’s no excuse. I’m breaking the Golden Rule … Read the rest »
Can your site be tweaked?
January 19, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Many of my clients already have an existing web site when they contact me. Often they’re unhappy with their site’s visual design, or its functionality, or its performance in the search engines. I hate — I really hate — telling … Read the rest »
The Infamous Canonical URL Issue
January 18, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Difficult as it may be to believe, but by January of 2007, Google is still unable to recognize when URLs that obviously lead to the same page are in fact the same page. So what’s a URL, and what’s the … Read the rest »
Google Maps
January 15, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Yesterday I sniped at Google with my No NoFollow post, but today I’m here to praise Google. The technology that powers Google Maps is so very cool, and the very best thing about it, in my opinion, is that Google … 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 »
Saves Time! Less bloat!
January 13, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I use a fairly wide variety of software programs in my work, on both the Mac and PC platforms (primarily Mac, of course). Some programs stand head and shoulders above the others, because they provide so much value, and/or make my work (and my life) easier.
Adobe’s 800-lb. gorilla, Photoshop, is of course the mother of all graphics programs. Vector graphics, raster images, photos, scanning, touching up, resizing, cropping, retouching, batch processing. Every version of Photoshop is better than the last.
But everyone knows about Photoshop, whether they use it or not. What about all those little programs and utilities that not everyone knows about?
The Many and Varied Components of SEO
January 13, 2007 By 1 Comment
Search engine optimization (SEO) is often referred to as if it is some single monolithic task. It’s not.
SEO includes everything from the technical configuration of the server hosting a web site, to the site’s coding and structure, to the … Read the rest »
It’s about efficiency and time
January 12, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I’m building some photo gallery pages for a client. Apparently the client will be regularly adding new photo galleries, and some of them will include a fairly significant number of photos.
Sure, I can batch process the images in Photoshop … Read the rest »
