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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
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Monday, August 25, 2008
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Monday, August 25, 2008
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Friday, August 15, 2008
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Monday, July 28, 2008
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Monday, July 28, 2008
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Monday, July 28, 2008
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Sunday, July 27, 2008
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Sunday, July 27, 2008
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Friday, July 25, 2008
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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The other day I taked about letting your search engine ranking come to you. I also mentioned the unpredictable, rapid changes your rankings can see in this day and age.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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I get around to talking about Search Engine ranking and optimization every now and again on OTC because it comes up so often with small businesses and entrepreneurs. Many of them have expectations that are seemingly like demands at times that they are going to be #1 in Google. At times, search engine ranking is difficult to talk about with people because they only want to hear what they want to hear.
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Monday, July 14, 2008
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In what is becoming an entire season of Melrose Place, Yahoo is reaching out to Microsoft to get a deal done. Basically, their is some internal sparring at Yahoo at the moment, which is playing right in to Microsoft hands. In addition, Yahoo seems like they are finally ready to get out of Internet land. The folks in Open Source land may take a blow.
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Sunday, July 13, 2008
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The other night (yes I work at night) I was in need of a Text Box Editor for a Website I am working on. I have used them in the past and there are several of them on the market that are free. Never really liking any of the ones I have tried before, I expected to get the same old Google results. #1 in the list was the #1 Textbox Editor I have seen to date - FreeTextBox.com
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Sunday, July 13, 2008
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The other night I ended up on the MSNBC Website. Don't ask me why. I can't remember. Low and behold someone is up on technology as the MSNBC Website is now chock full of AJAX for dynamic Website viewing. A dynamic headache soon followed.
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Friday, July 11, 2008
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I always link my clients up from my home page when they come onboard or their Website is completed. One thing I have noticed in the past couple of years is how fast a new clients Website will appear in search engines when linked from the home page of my Company Website. Usually within one week, their Website will appear in Google.
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
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Several people own several different domain names. Often times they have been purchased with many different registrants. Over time, the email addresses they were registered with become disabled. Then you must fax in letters with identity information such as a drivers license just to get the email addresses on file updated.
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Friday, June 20, 2008
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Every so often I will get requests such as this: "We want to build a Website that has a custom ECommerce store. We need a logo built and a few other graphics. We also want to use FLASH on the home page. Can you do all of that?" The answer would be no. I, by myself, cannot do all of those things because I do not build graphics nor can I do FLASH. I got you covered on the programming for the ECommerce store but I would need to bring in someone to do the graphics and someone else to do the FLASH.
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
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I have dealt with this a couple of time recently so I thought I would blog it. There seems to be a handful of ISPs or fly-by-night developers out there who are using Content Management Systems (CMS) as a way of offering Website design without explaining to the client that they are using it in order to offer rock bottom prices for design a canned CMS program is used.
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Thursday, April 03, 2008
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I recently wrote this article for OTC about AJAX programming. As I wrote it, I could not stop from hearing my own voice inside of my head, over and over again, telling me: Straight-forward is always best, Websites should always be built to benefit end users, and how much I hate the phrase "the cutting edge of technology"
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
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Does your Web store feature a fast checkout option? If it doesn't then it is something to consider. Adding features to your Website that will allow users to buy faster can be a big benefit. Yet, few do it despite the fact that it is so simple.
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Monday, March 17, 2008
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You see this term cropping up everywhere these days - Web 2.0. Many people are trying to define what is actually means while others believe it is a new technology to build Websites with. The thing about the new paradigm of Web 2.0 that is hilarious is how it has little to do with technology and has more to do with Internet users.
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008
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Web merchants should look closely at the transaction rates when choosing a payment processor such as Authorize.net or PayPal PayPro. You will pay a higher fee than they advertise if you are going to be processing cards on your Website with your own processor.
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Monday, March 03, 2008
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Web merchants should look closely at the transaction rates when choosing a payment processor such as Authorize.net or PayPal PayPro. You will pay a higher fee than they advertise if you are going to be processing cards on your Website with your own processor.
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Friday, February 29, 2008
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When considering a new Website or expanding a Website to accept credit cards, you will often see people turn to message boards and ask the community about processing plans. These people will tend to reach out to others in their own realm. Thus, if they are entrepreneurs just getting started then they will reach out to other entrepreneurs just getting started. Much of the advice you see posted is just not good advice.
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
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A consumer action law firm by the name of Kabateck, Brown, & Kellner has filed a class action lawsuit against Network Solutions for Domain Front Running. Domain Front Running is a process that Network Solutions has incorporated in to their Website where they put a five day hold on domain names that people search for that are available. This stops the consumer from buying the domain name from anyone else but them until four days pass.
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
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If there was ever an example of big business taking advantage of people it has to be the domain registrars like Network Solutions and GoDaddy. If you have bought a domain name from them in recent times then you know what I mean. Can you just go there, find your domain, and simply go to a screen and pay? No. Instead, you have to scroll through screen after of scare tactics that are truly aimed at taking advantage of people.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
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PCS have come a long way in recent years and now there is so much variation between them that what a user is actually going to see can be as wide open as ever. Computers, like my Dell, now offer resolutions as large as 1680 x 1050 and they are optimized for viewing at that large of a resolution. If I lower my resolution, I get warnings that my computer is optimized for 1680 x 1050 and that is easy to tell as Websites look blurry when going much lower than that.
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