2005 September

A rather detailed look at identity theft and how it can happen to anyone. If you are someone that uses a Web browser, and you obviously are, then you ought to take a moment and read the following article below…

I think I have my weblog set up properly, but someone recently emailed me saying that I haven’t set it up for “RSS autodiscovery”. But I have an RSS feed and I even have a little ‘xml’ button that links to the “index.xml” file that contains the RSS. So what am I missing?
The very latest […]

Today we’re concerned with giving our e-mail clients the same or better service than we would for a client standing physically in front of us wanting to buy something… however, oftentimes the opposite is still true unfortunately.
Before we can get into a discussion on what kind of response times, follow up escalations procedures, quality control […]

Sure, you knew there was a Gmail notifier extension for Firefox to let you know when you have new E-mails in your Gmail account. Did you know you could do the same thing with Yahoo’s mail? You can with the ymnotifier Firefox extension. Now I too can keep track of my Web-based […]

There is money to be made from blogs using services such as Google AdSense, but how long can your blog posts continue to make money for you after publication?
Tristan Louis of TNL.net detailed how blog archives can continue to be profitable over time, if people can find your pages through search engines. Bloggers can make […]

Will the Xbox be more of a Web app than a gaming system? Sometimes I find myself wondering. With all of the power this console seems to offer, I am beginning to see the same mistakes being made over again - lack of decent gaming titles.

A commonly asked question is: “What are some good e-mail delivery tools/products? Should I go with an autoresponder or a tool focused mainly on e-mail newsletters?”
The confusion is caused by most e-mail newsletter hosting companies also offer an autoresponder service and most autoresponder services offer e-mail newsletter hosting services… So how do you decide?
Solution:If you […]

Even with high-quality Web editor applications, it’s good to know how to do markup. While there are plenty of excellent HTML introduction tutorials out there on the Web, most of them teach with deprecated (obsolete) markup. Knowing about deprecated markup is helpful so you can read the source of older Web pages. But why learn […]

Who knew your space bar could be so much fun? Well maybe fun isn’t the right word in this situation. It is handy though for those of use who kind of sit funny at the keyboard and don’t always have the mouse handy. You can scroll down a Web page quickly by […]

Finally, we now have a way to dance around the Web design jargon in such a way that it makes sense! Well, assuming you understand the definitions, anyway.

Sometimes I forget that there are some pretty inventive people out there. The folks behind the new firm, White Wall Web Design, would likely qualify under this description I like to think.

To the newbie, Web design is a pretty daunting task to say the least. This problem is most certainly what prevents so many small businesses out there from offering Websites of their own. One company believes that the solution is affordable, automated design tools. Let’s hope that 8 to Infinity is on the right track…

Don’t you hate it when some Web site disables the right-click option on a Web site through java script? So do I. Now I know some folks do this to try to keep people from copying things or saving things from the Web site in question. There are other ways around saving […]

How can I protect my Web site HTML pages, graphics, etc. from being viewed, and/or manipulated by casual viewers? IOW, what do I need to set up so that if someone tries to go to “www.mysite.com/pics” (for example), they would get a “no permission” message?
There are two ways I can try to answer your […]

If you have settled on FrontPage as your Web site design tool of choice, then the following article discussing one course option might just peak your fancy… Cayman Net News Online reports:

Let’s face it. More often than not a blog-styled backend can make sense for a Web site that received frequent updates. While this may not work for everyone, it does seem to be just the ticket for the Web site in this article…

The new AGCO Machinelocator.com websites have been launched successfully and they also boast new search abilities to boot. The reasoning behind the change appears to stem from better usability for users. Sounds like a good reason to me to make needed updates, don’t you think?

While I hardly call the source that independent (my opinion), this article does have some fair points in regard to IE alternatives. Check it out…

Now I spend a lot of my time copying and pasting within Firefox. I like to copy URLs to browse to them later. I like to copy articles to read them later. Now there are several ways you can copy within Firefox. Have you ever used your Ctrl key though? […]

By far, the most difficult step for any would-be online video producer, blogger or videomaker is the ability to master the idiosyncrasies of a multitude of different video formats, encoding and compression nightmares and the needs to serve the same content optimized for different users and connections. Nonetheless all the buzz around video blogging and […]