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Mountain Multimedia

This past weekend my good friend and great photographer, Jonathan Jackson, came to visit.  It’s always nice when someone you’ve known for so long comes to see you not only to just shoot the breeze but also to do something productive.
Jonathan Jackson is a professional photographer.  I consider my apartment his unofficial art gallery.  His […]

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I Thought I Did a Decent Amount of Business with GoDaddy

I got an interesting e-mail that was almost a bubble burster for me from GoDaddy today:

Dear Chris Short,
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN(R)) recently agreed to reduce their Registrar Transaction Fee from $.25 to $.22. What does this mean for you? 
Good news. You have been credited $.03/yr for each domain name you […]

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Adventures in Hotlinking: Part 4

Hotlinking according to altlab is:
Bandwidth theft or “hotlinking” is direct linking to a website’s files (images, video, etc.). An example would be using an <IMG> tag to display a JPEG image you found on someone else’s web page so it will appear on your own site, journal, weblog, forum posting, etc.
Not a day goes by […]

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Adventures in Hotlinking: Part 3

Hotlinking according to altlab is:
Bandwidth theft or “hotlinking” is direct linking to a website’s files (images, video, etc.). An example would be using an <IMG> tag to display a JPEG image you found on someone else’s web page so it will appear on your own site, journal, weblog, forum posting, etc.
Not a day goes by […]

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Adventures in Hotlinking: Part 2

Hotlinking according to altlab is:
Bandwidth theft or “hotlinking” is direct linking to a website’s files (images, video, etc.). An example would be using an <IMG> tag to display a JPEG image you found on someone else’s web page so it will appear on your own site, journal, weblog, forum posting, etc.
Not a day goes by […]

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Adventures in Hotlinking: Part 1

Hotlinking according to altlab is:
Bandwidth theft or “hotlinking” is direct linking to a website’s files (images, video, etc.). An example would be using an <IMG> tag to display a JPEG image you found on someone else’s web page so it will appear on your own site, journal, weblog, forum posting, etc.
Not a day goes by […]

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Preventing Hotlinking

There are really only two ways to go about hotlinking prevention; the brute force way or the complex way.
The brute force way doesn’t always work and might affect your users’ ability to enjoy your site.
The complex way alleviates user issues but takes a little bit of time to implement.
Picking which way is right for you […]

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The Ever Important Personal Web Site

Originally Written 03 Oct 2003
The Internet is one of the vastest communications system ever created in the history of mankind. The World Wide Web is an increasingly formidable information tool that easily rivals libraries, news papers, magazines, and other forms of publications. The Internet is so popular, in fact, that people have been building web […]

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Content is King

Originally Written 08 Jun 2003
Let’s face it, information rules the Information Superhighway we call the Internet. If it weren’t for worthwhile information, formulated opinions, and reviews the Internet would not be as popular as it is today. For all intensive purposes in terms of web site design, search engine optimization, and search engine promotion, information […]

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Simple is a Good Thing

Originally Written 15 Mar 2003
You’ve finally set off to design a great web site. You have a good grasp of Flash, a great understanding of JavaScript and Microsoft FrontPage. In addition, you’ve got great ideas for content and you’ve even gone through the chrisshort.net Web Site Design Do’s and Don’ts and got some great ideas […]