Advice For Sending A Newsletter
Are you sending out a newsletter? One of my clients “All America Roadside” a company that sells Roadside Assistance packages wanted to send one. They had in the past sent them out in a “whenever we have the time” manor and I advised them it should be on a more consistent basis. They were providing […]
Cool Buttons With CSS
I hear requests for all kinds of buttons. I prefer to make them with regular text and use CSS for effects. That way you know search engines will be able to follow them and you can help improve your page rank by having the link say “This is what my page is about” right on […]
Know Who Your Visitors Are
One of the things that my customers ask me the most is how to know how much and what kind of traffic is coming to their site. I usually tell them that the first place to start is with their visitor logs. Most web hosts these days offer a complete stats package, as well as, […]
Help Fight Spam – What You Can Do
I’ve joined Project Honey Pot. It’s free to join and would encourage you to join also. Project Honey Pot is a distributed network of decoy web pages website administrators can include on their sites in order to gather information about robots, crawlers, and spiders. They collate data on harvesters, spammers, dictionary attackers, and comment spammers. […]
Friday Just For Fun Site – Michael Jackson Baby Drop
Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) Here’s a game where you try to catch as many of Michael’s dropped babies as you can. Michael will also try to distract you by dropping his records. This game is so irreverent it’s pretty funny. Enjoy. […]
Another Great Free Tool – Robots.txt Builder
The robots.txt file is a plain text file that you put in the root directory of your site which tells search engine robots where they can go, where they cannot go, how often to visit, what times to visit, where your sitemap is and more. This is a great file for website owners to have […]
Advice For Bloggers – Know The Rules
When I started this blog I didn’t really think about what was involved. I wanted to have something that would promote my business, as well as, encourage me to write every day. I really didn’t have any idea as to what or how much would be involved. At first, finding new material was pretty easy […]
What’s Up With Syracuse?
I was “downsized” about a year and a half ago so I thought I would see if I could make a business for myself doing something I love, designing websites. I found that occasionally posting ads on Craigslist was a good way to get the word out. I designed a couple of different ads and […]
Writing Articles and Advertising
Something that I advise my customers to do and don’t do enough of myself is to write articles. One of the things that brings me the most satisfaction is to see one of my articles on another site and visiting that site to find that along with my work there is more good information to […]
Great Free Icons You Can Use
If you are looking for some free icons that you can use on your web pages or program here’s a great collection. There is some really cool stuff here. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. More…
