FCC Delivers Wired Net Neutrality, but not Wireless
Image via Wikipedia You can be forgiven for missing the news. In the middle of the Christmas shopping season, the FCC approved new Network Neutrality rules. This comes shortly after the supposed...
View ArticleDo You need a Mobile Website?
Image by ttcopley via Flickr Are you wondering if you need a mobile website? It is nothing new to consider screen size and resolution when you make decisions on the design of a template, theme or skin...
View ArticleDesigning for Mobile
Image via CrunchBase The old saying, “Less is More” applies to designing for mobile devices more than almost anything else I can think of. When you’re presenting information on such a small screen,...
View ArticleGoogle’s Latest Search Algorithm Change
The Farmer Update Image via CrunchBase Google calls it Panda, but most web developers outside of Google are calling it the Farmer Update. The idea is to punish websites that are “Content Farms“, or in...
View ArticleWho is Rich Snippet and should you get to know him?
Image by Smithsonian Institution via Flickr Rich Snippet is a form of structured data that Google can use on its search results pages. It allows for a consistent, attractive display of information....
View ArticleGeek blog post topics: Help me choose
I’m not a writer, I’m a web developer, so blog posts don’t come easily to me every time. Usually, my blog post topics here have been about things of a geeky nature, which is something I can get a...
View ArticleRewards for Surveys
Zoomerang – Create Online Surveys The results from the first survey, where I asked what topic you would like my next blog post to be on, were inconclusive. By inconclusive I mean I only received two,...
View ArticleGoogle+, so far…
Google+, Facebook and Twitter are the big three in Social Media I’ve had my Google+ (G+) account for about a month now, so I thought I would take a step back and look at my personal social media...
View ArticleIs Social Media Killing SEO?
Sometimes all the buzz about social media can make it it seem as if SEO is dead. Sometimes the daily focus on implementing SEO can make it seem as if the social media buzz is about some planet in a...
View ArticleDo you need a mobile website: Revisited
If you were still wondering whether or not you needed a mobile website after we last discussed the subject earlier this year, we have some new information for you. Although we have to assume the mobile...
View ArticlePrepare to Deal with Comment Trolls on Blogs
When my friend Launie first started writing her blog Teeny Tiny Kitchen two years ago, she picked a subject she cares about and a skill that she rocks; cooking food. She had been reading blogs for...
View ArticleKickstarter: An Interview on Crowdsourced Funding
Kickstarter touts itself as the “world’s largest funding platform for creative projects.” While it hasn’t turned the world of raising funds on its head yet, its increasing popularity with users and...
View ArticleCrowdfunding and Kickstarter: Q&A
Crowdfunding for small businesses and nonprofits has been a hot topic in the news lately, especially since the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act was signed into law last month. So why is...
View ArticleThe Importance of Widespread Broadband
Ever wonder why widespread high-speed broadband access is a media topic so often? Many technical subjects receive little media attention (smart meters and the electrical grid come to mind), so Internet...
View ArticleIs Website Improvement a Do-It-Yourself Job?
Improving, repairing or refurbishing an old website doesn’t have to be hard, even if making a good website is. The Right Tools Are Key If you’ve ever tried any serious home improvement, you know that...
View Article3 Reasons You Don’t Want a Flash Website
Adobe Flash is a very powerful platform for making a variety of interactive applications for the web. Most games are built using it. Many of the popular video players use it. Interactive maps, forms...
View ArticleCan You Recycle a Blog Post Without Hurting SEO? Part 1
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. It’s not just for paper and plastic anymore. If you write a blog, you may want to try applying it to your posts as the years go by. But you’ve heard this is a bad thing to do,...
View ArticleCan You Recycle a Blog Post Without Hurting SEO? Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, I described exactly how I designed an experiment to test (at minimum risk) whether or not it is possible to recycle a blog post without hurting SEO (search engine...
View ArticleNet Neutrality: Not Much of an Update
The internet is no longer in its infancy. It may be approaching, or is already in its teen age years, depending on who you ask and what happens in the next few years. Back in the 90’s, when I first...
View ArticleTake your vacation, seriously
Everybody likes taking a vacation, but as a society, we’re not very good at it. Americans work more days than our European counterparts yet our productivity is little better than theirs. Why things are...
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