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Yeah, so I stole my headline from ma.gnolia. Ma.gnolia is a social bookmarking service developed by Zeldman and crew. They are one of about one hundred such services including del.icio.us, reddit, furl, and many more. All of these social bookmarking services offer the ability to save bookmarks to their database and they differ significantly from […]
So you think you’ve got what it takes to play with the big boys, eh? But, you’re not sure how to make it big? Well, this post is for you. Just follow these simple steps and it will be you telling people you can’t take projects until sometime late next year.
Learn from the masters
It seems […]
I was just trying to set up my WordPress feed through FeedBurner and I discovered two interesting issues:
If you activate the gzip option, your feed won’t validate on FeedBurner. It will say there was an error on line 2. I didn’t spend any time figuring out if there was a way to make the gzip […]
At this point in web development, virtually everyone I talk to about a project tells me they would like to “come up in Google”. In the industry, we refer to that as search engine optimization, or SEO for short. This post attempts to cover the basics for search engine optimization as a starter resource for […]
It used to be the only way to put information online was through one’s own website. Today it’s possible for an individual or organization to have a great deal of information about themselves on the Web and not even have a site. Sites such as MySpace, CitySearch, and more offer profiles that can contain information […]
WordPress is a great content management system because the system itself is free and there’s a community of people also creating free layouts, plug-ins, and helpful tutorials (like this one). It’s powerful enough to manage most individual and organizational website needs, yet simple enough for everyone to use. I don’t mean to oversell WordPress, […]
From time to time it becomes necessary to move your website from one hosting company to another. Reasons for moving might be due to:
You need a different server environment, such as moving from a Microsoft server to an Apache web server.
You need more features, such as disk space, bandwidth, or email boxes and someone else […]
So, I get a lot of questions about how to do various things for a profile, so I thought I’d put together a little list of FAQs. This information is in no way complete, so you may find many different methods for accomplishing what I cover below. I can tell you that I am a […]
When you’re a web entrepreneur one of the most difficult skills to master is how to establish agreements and write proposals. I remember the first project for which I was supposed to be paid. Notice the use of the word “supposed”. Even though I had a signed agreement, I was never able to collect on […]
In February of 2005, my younger brother introduced me to MySpace. I was hooked instantly. I spent the next few nights and dawns exploring this strange new place. I knew right away that this social networking site was different. I had played on Friendster and some others, but MySpace was different. After a few months […]
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.