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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Can You Post Too Little?
I have a customer called Chamber Musicians. I set them up a blog and at first the postings were pretty often. The other day I mentioned to them that their last post was a bit old. They asked me if it would be better to take the blog down. This presents an interesting dilemma which […]
Great New Free Tool – JWChat
JWChat – Jabber Web Chat This looks very interesting. An easy way to add web based chat or conferencing to your site. The demo is very easy to use and the install seems pretty straightforward. Because it web based none of your users need to install anything on their own computers. It’s free and open […]
Great Plug-ins For Word Press
I replied to a Craigslist ad the other day for someone looking to update their website. They replied that they wanted several things: google ads mailing list where people can sign up for promotions, news etc take questions from people and compile into a newsletter to be sent out do surveys do podcasts sell ebooks […]
Internet Explorer And My New Site
After I put up my new site design last week there was one glitch that was driving me nuts. In Internet Explorer only, the menu border displayed fine on my site, but in my blog the menu was missing most of the top border. The site looked fine in Firefox and others, but in IE […]
