Simple can be Good
When I stand up to talk about my business at my networking meetings of of the first things I say is that many vendors will try to sell you the most complicated system that they can. This is true for websites, inventory management or almost any system that a business will buy. For websites there […]
Design Your Site For Todays User
Back in the good old days (mid 90’s) you didn’t even have to consider what a visitor were using to view your site. You viewed everything in Internet Explorer and made it look good in that. My friends used to think I was nuts for wasting my time looking at my site with Netscape. Today […]
Don’t Be Afraid Of Listening To Your Customers
I know of many businesses that are scared to death of using social media. They fear someone writing something bad about them. Worse yet if it’s a blog they are writing something bad about us on our own website. It seems to me that if someone has something bad to say about you or your […]
Do Cameras Prevent Crimes?
It’s finally going to happen. As I wrote in my post Pittsburgh Happenings – The ‘Burgh Sees All, Pittsburgh PA is going to install cameras everywhere. The manufacturers claim that they help solve and prevent crimes. Well, of course they say they do, they’d be foolish to say anything else, they want to sell these […]
Friday Just For Fun Site – Real World Racer
Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) One of the things that I like most about Google is that they will let almost anyone play with their toys and they have some great toys. Tom Scott has created Real World Racer: A Google Maps […]
How To Get Inbound Links For SEO
One of the best ways to move your site up the search engine results page for your keywords is to have incoming links from outside websites. The higher ranking and more authoritative these sites are the better it is for you. The problem that people and companies with new sites run into is how to […]
Marketing Messages For Today
I was watching TV and it seems lately that all the ads were things like “save money”, “lose your job and return the car”, “0% interest” or “good as new”. My wife said to me that these are things that should have been done long before. That got me thinking. It may be a good […]
How To Password Protect Directories and Files
In addition to designing websites, I am getting requests lately to just manage data for clients. For example, shopping cart databases, Google or Open Office Documents. Some password protected and some not. I have found that the simplest solution is probably the best one. The htaccess file is simple to use and has good security. […]
Spring Pittsburgh Garden Photos
I put up some garden pics in my Photos section today. Spring in my window Spring in my back yard Flowers just starting to bloom Update 3-22-09 – I had so much fun with gardening Saturday that Sunday I went to the 2009 Spring Flower Show at the Phipps Conservatory. I posted more pictures.
Friday Just For Fun Site – My Tracks
Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) I have written before how much I like my G1 AndroidTM phone. The applications keep on coming every day. Here’s one that I’m trying out today when I go out for a skate. It looks very cool. […]
