Congress may make ISPs snoop on you
Ben Franklin once said “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” A prominent Republican on Capitol Hill has prepared legislation that would rewrite Internet privacy rules by requiring that logs of Americans’ online activities be stored, CNET News.com has learned. The proposal comes just […]
Optimizing your website for the three major search engines
Google looks at your site one way, MSN another and Yahoo still another. Is there a good way to optimize your site for all three? Dave Davies wrote “Tying It Together: SEO For The Big Three” one of the best articles I’ve found on the subject. This article is part four of a four part […]
Search Engine Submission Tips
A number of people have asked me how do you get into the search engines. This is the most complete guide that I have found, but there is also a very good section for beginners. This section of Search Engine Watch (formerly called A Webmaster’s Guide To Search Engines) is primarily for webmasters, site owners […]
The right way to run a Wi-Fi cafe
Nathan Willis suggests some wonderful ideas for anyone thinking of offering public Wi-Fi in their establishment. One of the benefits of living in a place as exotic as Abilene, Texas, is that it presents you with a choice of not one but three Internet-connected coffee shops. Last week, I spent an afternoon in each, scouting […]
The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library
The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. The YUI Library also includes several core CSS resources. All components in the YUI Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and […]
How to Hire a Good SEO Expert
For most online merchants, it’s a simple equation: the higher they rank in search engines, the more shoppers they attract. Given that all-important formula, many e-tailers lose sleep pondering two pressing questions: how can I increase my search engine presence? How can I boost my ranking on as many search terms as possible? They know […]
Google Trends
I thought I would pass on a cool new tool called Google Trends that lets you know what people are searching for. It’s great fun to play with, but can be just as good for serious research. Google explains how their tool works: Google Trends analyzes a portion of Google web searches to compute how […]
Everyone Wants to ‘Own’ Your PC
When technology serves its owners, it is liberating. When it is designed to serve others, over the owner’s objection, it is oppressive. There’s a battle raging on your computer right now — one that pits you against worms and viruses, Trojans, spyware, automatic update features and digital rights management technologies. It’s the battle to determine […]
PayPal Shopping Cart
I was speaking to someone the other day who was looking to contract out work for a website because he had no experience with e-commerce. While it’s ture that some shopping carts can be quite a job to install and debug I recommended “If your customer willing to use PayPal to process credit cards you […]
How to Locate and Evaluate Good Websites
How do you identify and separate the really good resources on the web from all the other websites out there? How do you know the sites you’ve found offer practical, reliable information? How do you know you can trust a site you’d like to order products from? These are some of the questions Business Know-How […]
