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In all of my years of web development, I’ve never been a part of a project that didn’t experience some level of difficulty during creation. Clients and developers alike are guilty of saying things like, “I don’t understand why this is so hard!” I figured it was high time someone gave them some insight about […]
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. When you are scoping a new website project, you’ll ideally start the process by appearing to be an expert and having done this kind of work before. How you set it up in the beginning establishes many precedences that stick throughout the project. Clients […]
Ok, so I don’t know why it just occurred to me to post some of my favorite ninja tricks, but it did, so here:
Trick 1 - Instant links
Did you know that your can permanently redirect various versions of a page to a single address to increase your number of links to a page? That means […]
Secure certificates, also known as SSL, are a strange thing to buy. Prices range from thousands of dollars to $20. What’s the difference between them that would account for this massive price range? Insurance. Expensive SSLs will cover much larger fraud claims than the cheap ones. But if you want a better price on SSLs […]
This promotional tip is dedicated to Andrew Wee for popping my MBL cherry.
If you’d like to pull in some Google traffic, this tip is for you. Google bait is a post that a blogger intentionally writes to pull in Google traffic. The basic idea is that certain topics have a high volume of interest and […]
I’ve installed ZenPhoto a couple of times and both times I had broken images. At first I thought it might have been the permission settings for the “/albums” or “/cache” were not set to 777. That wasn’t it. Then I did a Google search, and the ZenPhoto forum popped up with suggestions that my .htaccess […]
I started this blog in September of 2006 in the fashion I recommend to my clients, which is to grow a blog, not build one. I had a lot of ideas about how I wanted it to look and how to structure the content, but I also wanted to wait and see what content I […]
On his blog Influential Interactive Marketing, Rohit identified the Top 7 Marketing Trends for 2006. His list includes:
Sharing a Corporate Personality
Widget Marketing
Social Media Optimization
AutoTagging and AutoSorting
Human Filtered Search
Contentcasting
Online Identity Shifting
In the spirit of things, I wanted to offer one more trend of 2006.
Viral Buttons. These include all of the little buttons and badges […]
So, the other day I was having trouble eliminating gaps between an image and the top of an unordered list. I was trying to make a box with rounded corners to look like a giftcard. No matter what I tried, there was a 2 pixel space between the top and bottom graphics and the list. […]
I know Tom is hard at work on the new server and admin, but I don’t know if I can wait any longer! I want my Gravatar! Whaaaa!!11
I am a New Media Strategist at Voce Communications, board member for Legion of Tech, and host of Beer and Blog. I love the Internet, drums, socializing, and a good Scotch. I like go karts, R/C helicopters, and snowboarding. My wife, Christine, and I have two cute dogs and we all live in Portland, OR. We think Portland is awesome.