Tips

I recently started serving as an evangelist for Daylife, and if you haven’t heard of them before, Daylife presents a news site and a distribution platform that pulls together news and imagery from thousands of sources and organizes and displays it all for you in a way that easily enables you to follow specific topics […]

Little has changed in what works in writing for the Web as experts have recommended most of these tips for good writing for years. I apply the following when writing for the Web:

Insert bolded sub-heads every few paragraphs for scanning.
Keep paragraphs about four to six lines long otherwise when the reader loses his place, the […]

Have you ever abandoned a shopping cart during the checkout stage — other than to find out the price (like Amazon says to add to basket to find out price)? I’m sure I have, but the reasons why are not coming to me at the moment (call it human virus-infected memory syndrome — no worries, […]

I survived a weekend-long family celebration. Afterward, I learned that some people didn’t make it to the party because MapQuest didn’t have the right information or street for the location of the party. I was horrified. I used Google Maps and it was perfect in giving directions and showing the location of the event.
This is […]

Do you use the Ryze Business Network to promote your company Web site and make new connections in the professional world? On Ryze and other online networks, human connections are happening everywhere.
Online networks such as Ryze have live links built into them for a reason. They’re your opportunity to directly connect with people who can […]

(A.K.A. Why Regular People Should Not Write Marketing Materials)
Just the other day, my significant other called me over to share what he considered “godawful” copywriting. He was looking at the Web site of a *typical* marketing company, much like mine or yours, and having a little chuckle.
“Read this,” he said. “This person is trying […]

I recently got an E-mail from a Lockergnome reader who wanted to ask about titles for Web sites. When push comes to shove, you might get a lot of different views on this, but I will share my own and leave the comments open to others to dispute anything I say. I am […]

Designing Web sites for events requires a different thought process and approach than a regular Web site. Of course, every design project should be unique, but events have features in common that should be discussed in every project. Such common features include:

Home page: Event name, date, location and quick explanation of what it’s about and […]

When it comes to titles for your Web pages, articles or posts you need to keep in mind this is what it will be remembered as forever. A good headline can be the attention grabber that takes you from being some nobody in your basement to being at the top of del.icio.us, Digg and […]

Will my Web site go down when it is being moved? This is one question that I get asked a lot, because nobody wants to suffer any downtime at all. When it comes to Web hosting and moving from Web host to Web host - can you expect to experience downtime? Now […]

After creating a Web site that looks awesome, and you want to share with the masses the next step on your agenda should always be to get similar content to link back to you. How do you make these bonds though? Well the people over at FeedBurner would like for you to do your networking […]

Now when it comes to content writing, sure you could hire an expert and pay him or her loads of money to rewrite much of your Web site’s text. I have seen it done before (I have even done it before) and it is not that hard of a job to do. Most folks in […]

I got an E-mail from a friend of mine not too long ago that wanted to know if it would better to use the “one-click” install of WordPress that his Web host gives him or if he should just install it himself? Now both sides have their good points and their bad points, but […]

Content plays a big part in Web site design and development. Without content, you would just have a lot of Web sites linked to other Web sites with nothing interesting of different on each one. As much fun as link clicking is I think if we took content out of the picture, people’s interest might […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Have you reached that point with your Web site or online project to where you think you have done everything you can do? Maybe you are not out of content ideas. Maybe you just need to look at spreading yourself out into more directions. Now I am not talking about covering more […]

More and more, developers are becoming aware of the threats posed by malicious code, and SQL injection in particular, and by leaving code vulnerable to such attacks. However, while SQL is the most popular type of code injection attack, there are several others that can be just as dangerous to your applications and your data, […]

Before I joined Lockergnome as a contributor almost two years ago, I did a little work in copy writing for Web sites. Most of the Web sites I worked on had something to do with Web hosting. You don’t really appreciate all that text you see on Web sites till you have to […]