A New Page – Who Do You Design For?
I have a section of my site where I have a tutorial about starting a web site. It’s a do-it-yourself kind of thing. I am adding a new page called Who Are You Designing For? I really like websites that use shadows well. See my favorite sites. png images make the best shadows because you […]
Another Good Free Tool – PHPList
I wrote the other day about a manager for your mailing lists. Here is another one. It’s called PHPList and is a free open source system for managing your email campaigns. PHPList does much more than OpenNewsletter, but is also a bit more complicated to use. It supports the double opt-in subscription mechanism, which means […]
Is This Link Confusing?
Last week I put up a post that looked like almost all of my other posts. The person who’s site I linked to saw my comments on the trackback portion of his blog. A trackback is a link in your blog to someone else who is linking to you. It usually looks like a comment. […]
Be Careful Of Who You Hire For SEO
I have written many times about good ways to help your site get found by the search engines. This post is about the bad ones. I usually get my share of “Blog Spam”. That is, people or bots who post comments on my blog that usually have nothing to do with the content. These folks […]
What’s The Best Way To Lay Out Your Site.
When I first meet with a potential client I ask them what they want their site to do, then I ask them about how they want their site to look. Where is the best place to put your navigation? Your email signup box? I usually send them to a page I have a page on […]
More Good Free Tools – OpenNewsletter
I was searching for an easy way for my customer to manage the email addresses for their newsletter campaign and I came across OpenNewsletter and it seemed to be just what I needed. ” A free, simple, and beautiful open source newsletter solution aimed at small-medium scale. Very easy installation. Just upload and its working. […]
More Good SEO Advice
On the Search Engine Watch site Mark Jackson of the ClickZ Network has posted an article called “Avoiding Cookie Cutter SEO”. He speaks about how no two web sites are created equal and how template SEO is just bad business. Search engines are looking for unique sites to show to their searchers and generally what […]
Don’t Let Someone Else Control Your Domain Name
I have written before about keeping your domain name up to date and today I have a customer who is having trouble with transferring his website to another server. My customer is a Polka and Jazz artist named Al Meixner. Al hired me to update his site and to give it a more consistent look […]
Great Advice On The Power Of Search
Vanessa Fox has a wonderful post on her blog called “the power of search: driving traffic to your blog (a BlogHer recap)” I was just going to bookmark it to read later, but I started reading and finished the whole thing, it’s pretty long. She talks about how people find your blog in clear terms […]
Can Small Businesses Really Afford SEO?
There is a very interesting discussion going on in a post on the search engine land site by Stoney deGeyter called Can Small Businesses Really Afford SEO? I’m thinking that small business can’t afford not use SEO for their sites. It’s the only thing that really levels the playing field with the big boys. Even […]
