Friday Just For Fun Site – National Geographic Photos – Swarm Theory
Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) Probably everyone knows that the National Geographic has some wonderful photo galleries, but “Swarm Theory” really caught my eye. The study of swarm intelligence is providing insights that can help humans manage complex systems, from truck routing […]
Deep Links Are More Valuable Than Ever
There was a great article on the BBC News site over the weekend talking about how users are going deeper into websites right from the start and seem to only be interested in finding what they are looking for. What does that mean for your site? Several things, but first of all you need to […]
Managing Free Publicity
There’s a great post on the Wall Street Journal ‘s Small Business site that talks about what can happen if you suddenly get some great free publicity. A service called Bag, Borrow or Steal which rents high end designer handbags and sunglasses is getting a mention in the new Sex and the City movie. The […]
Favorite Site Designs – Skis-Direct
I have a page on my site with some of my favorite site designs that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of designs that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these site designs, they all look good and are […]
Friday Just For Fun Site – Conceptis Logic Puzzles
Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) Conceptis logic puzzles -the art of logic. Nonstop fun with the world’s best logic puzzles. Free online picture-forming logic puzzles plus many other different games. This site has some great puzzles and has already kept me up […]
Your Personal Information Is Not Yours
A couple of things happened to me this week that made me say Hmmmmmmm. I find it interesting how often things happen in groups. Maybe when I’m doing or thinking about an issue I’m just “tuned in” to finding more. First I got a postcard form my old High School, Taylor Allderdice. They are putting […]
Google Opens Up (A Little)
In an effort to open up their formally (and still) secretive formulas for ranking your web page Google has added to their Official Webmaster Blog. It’s a very nice post called “Introduction to Google Search Quality” and is written by Udi Manber, VP Engineering, Search Quality. He (I think it’s a he) explains that web […]
I Want To Be Found For Pittsburgh Web Design
A customer of mine, Talk’nTables asked me why he couldn’t be found on Google for his keyword choice of “tabletop advertising”. I explained to him that those words did not appear anywhere on his page. He needed to add them in the headlines and content of his page(s). Within a few days he was on […]
Friday Just For Fun Site – Planet Earth Game
Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) Planet Earth Game by the Discovery Chanel lets you be the executive producer for “Planet Earth”. You will manage seven film crews across the globe to acquire never before seen footage for this groundbreaking new series from […]
Cool Free Tool – LyX
One of my customers who is a writer krahesnest.com asked me if I knew of any tools to help a writer organize their work. She knew that I am a big open source fan and thought that I could help her find something that would be an effective tool for a writer. I found LyX […]
