2007 January

The folks over at Microsoft are set to build a new data center facility in San Antonio, Texas. The entire facility will cost around $550 million, and will cover 400,000 square feet and housing tens of thousands of computers to host their services.
This new facility will be Microsoft’s first data center in […]

Get an ezine. Sign up for list management. Collect subscribers. All good ideas… but what happens when you innocently begin publishing your own ezine and then suddenly someone gets fed up with your antics and hollers “Spammer!” for no apparent reason.
Just because you “told someone you weren’t spamming them” does not mean you weren’t spamming […]

When you get through all the spam and stupid questions, Yahoo! Answers is a pretty neat resource to comb through or to get your questions answered by. The idea of picking the population’s brain when it comes to knowing what you need to know is neat. That is not why I use it […]

As I go to Web hosting forum to Web hosting forum I have noticed a lot of people lately have been asking how you can create an “unspamable” E-mail link. They all want something that the E-mail harvesters out there can not pick up on. Well there are several methods out there, but […]

How many E-mail addresses do you have? For the longest I guess I took it for granted that most people used multiple E-mail accounts but I guess I was wrong. Here lately, I seem to be getting more E-mails about people having problems because they can’t get E-mail out or contact their hosting […]

I do not know who you should blame it on, but for some reason dark designs do not seem to be that popular these days. Maybe it was Google’s fault for showing people that simple could be good as well. Maybe it is this whole Web 2.0 thing that says you have to […]

Now I know here we cover a lot of the technical ways of making your Web sites or projects better. Have you thought of all the social aspects that might make your Web site a little more popular? Nobody can argue with the fact that it takes people to make a Web site […]

I have said it before and I will probably say it again, there is no way that anybody is ever going to be able to memorize every style sheet element there is out there. It is just impossible. If you want to brag that you know them all, then you need to go […]

Come on, get with the times! Rounded corners these days are all the rage, how come you are not using them yet? I have always wanted to experiment with rounded corners on a Web site layout, but it always seemed too difficult for me. Thankfully though I have found a resource that […]

Starting this month, I’m now serving as a technical evangelist for a company that is based out of Paris called Criteo, which I’ve written about before. They’ve developed a recommendation engine that uses collaborative filtering technology, and they’re encouraging Web developers from all over the world to integrate the engine into their Web sites so […]

I guess before I can ask you if you want one, it might help if I told you what it is. After hanging around so many Web hosting geeks all day long, sometimes I forget that the real world is not as savvy with the Web hosting lingo that gets tossed around. For […]

When it comes to getting the bare bones of a CSS layout done, some of us might need a little help. Sure you know where you want you content but do you know how to get it there? When I need a really simple and easy basic layout there is only one article […]

Going through my monthly cleaning out of the old bookmarks, I found a few special things. I was searching through some of my bookmarks and I realized that I had a lot of WordPress related content saved. Seeing that this was a lot of good information, it was a shame it was just going to […]

I get a lot of questions sent my way, and I do my best to answer them all. Every so often though, I get one that is good enough to share in front of the rest of the class. Jim was the most recent person to drop me a line and he wanted […]

Not every Web site launched or project started can be a winner. You might think you have the coolest idea, the best design, and the most wonderful content and it can fall onto the Web with a deaf ear if nobody likes it. So should you abandon that domain and start fresh? Well, hold on […]

Now everybody knows GoDaddy.com is world famous for selling domain names. It seems like more often than not these days though it is trying to expand itself into other areas of the Web. The most recent expansion of Web services included Photo Filer. This new feature offers you another method for sharing […]

The first part of this series was about questions to ask a potential search engine optimization company regarding the tactics that it will use to optimize your site. These questions are crucial because there are search engine optimization companies out there that will use techniques that can put your site at risk of penalization by […]

With Web 2.0-style design and RIA (rich Internet applications) becoming prevalent on web sites, is there any point in creating a Web site if it doesn’t have interactivity features or fancy back-end programming? Of course! There are loads of reasons to have a web site and they don’t all require programming beyond basic JavaScript or […]

Want to add some of those really neat Web 2.0 effects to your own Web site or project and you do not know where to start? Well one place that I would point you towards would be SimpleJS. Why? Well, it is pretty darned simple, for one thing. It might not be as powerful as […]

Yesterday, I went over questions that you should ask your potential search engine optimization company regarding its tactics. That set of questions is critical, as before moving forward with any of the myriad of search engine optimization companies out there, you should always determine whether or not they will put your site at risk of […]