Sorry About That
My RSS feed has not been working for several days now. The RSS2 feed wasn’t affected. It seems that you can’t use an ampersand in your posts. I pasted one in a link to another site and my feed froze at that point. I just replaced it with the word “and” and just like magic […]
Do You Need Techies To Build Technology?
Computer World has an interesting story at the moment on what the hot skills are expected to be four years down the track. Predictably, technical skills are seen as being less important than business and soft-skills. More… Paul Knapp editor of brainbox.com.au says pretty much the opposite. “In almost every successful IT project I’ve ever […]
Free 10 Week Online AJAX Course by Sun Microsystems
A free 10-week “AJAX Programming” online course is about to start from August 4th, 2006. This course is for anyone who wants to learn AJAX for the first time or increase their knowledge on AJAX. In this 10-week course, students learn basic concept of AJAX as well as how to use various AJAX frameworks and […]
Marketing Yourself
When you are selling your service on the web what you are really selling is yourself. So when a potential client’s first encounter with you is your website it should give them an idea of what you are all about. I have long believed that for a site to be friendly and approchable it needs […]
Why Not Have Open Hardware As Well?
Open Source software is taking the world by storm and changing everyone’s business model to one degree or another why not use the same model for hardware as well. I think many manufacturers are missing the boat on this issue and the one who steps up now can stake their claim as the industry leader […]
Nice CSS How-To and Template site
CSS started out as a means to replace the font element. In the meantime, it has grown to a powerful layout language. Even though it is not fully supported by all of the browsers, I believe it will be one day. As with HTML, a working group exists for CSS who concerns itself with development […]
What is Click-Fraud?
I have and will advise my clients to think very carefully before investing in any pay-per-click advertising program. The main reason for that is click fraud. How this works is that you bid on a “keyword” which can be one word or multi-word combinations. If you are one of the high bidders your ads are […]
Search Engine Optimization
There are way too many tools here to mention them all, but this SEO Tools page has links to the best SEO Tools on the internet and these tools will help you to optimize your website and move your search engine position higher. Tools include: Alexa Tools Backlink Tools Code Validation Keyword Suggestion Tools Search […]
Search Engine Promotion
No Strategy. No Success is an article by Frederick Townes who is the owner of W3 EDGE Web Design. I found this is a good read for beginners, as well as experienced designers. He covers many points including: Objectives Market Analytics Technology Presentation Layer Promotion Optimization Of course it’s a lot to cover in one […]
GIMP Tutorial For Everyone
I got a call from a new friend that I met at a PAPEN meeting a couple of weeks ago. He mentioned to me that he thought that I used Photoshop because he had seen a Photoshop Tips and Tricks post on my blog. I explained to him that I don’t use Photoshop that I […]
