Keeping Your Website Current
I wrote yesterday about keeping the copyright date on your pages up to date, but there’s much more to keeping your site current than that. One of the things that search engines look for is that they are able to find new information on your site on a regular basis. There’s a good reason for […]
Ideas For Creating A Custom 404 Error Page
In case anyone doesn’t know the 404 Error page is the page you get when a visitor types in an address or clicks a link that is not there. It could be a page that’s been moved, deleted or was never there in the first place. Most sites still have a generic error message that […]
More Fun Stuff – Jim’s Maze
About 100 years ago I made a game. Well almost 100 years (about 1971 or so). I started drawing these on graph paper in study hall at Taylor Allderdice High School. I started with regular mazes then I came up with a new idea. It was a different kind of maze that I hadn’t seen […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Content Paralysis
I had a friend who I met a while back at a PAPEN meeting contact me recently. Her daughter is a real estate agent and she was trying to put together a website for her business. She had paid someone to design her site over a year ago and still has nothing up. The designer […]
How Not To Do SEO
It seems that everyone is getting into the SEO business these days. I do a good bit or research on the subject and try to give simple advice that can be used by most any webmaster to improve their search engine standings. The information that I provide you I believe to be accurate current and […]
Promote Your Own Website
I subscribe to several Craigslist (computer gigs) feeds for many cities that are within about a five hour drive from here in Pittsburgh. It helps me keep up with people who are advertising for my kinds of services. I use Thunderbird for this and that lets me view these ads just as if they were […]
More Favorite Designs To Check Out
I quite often hear from people who are looking for good ideas to help them design or redesign their websites. I try to help by publishing my own section of favorite new sites on the web. Smashing Magazine has just published their list of “60 Elegant and Visually Appealing Designs” for this year. You’ll find […]
