May 22, 2007

I talked about a service called ZamZar. It easily converted the Microsoft Publisher file to PDF for me and was a great time saver. It also converts Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, HTML, plain text documents and most image formats. If you need to quickly convert to PDF take a look

May 20, 2007

One of the little things that often is overlooked by many webmasters is to create a favorite icon or favicon for their website. A favicon is that small 16x16 pixel image that people see on the address bar of their web browser when they visit your website, and it is

May 18, 2007

Firefox is my web browser of choice. There are lots of reasons why I use Firefox, the main reason is because I like it. It renders web pages faster than Internet Explorer and has less security concerns. It is also the default browser on my operating system, Ubuntu Linux, but

May 16, 2007

For people starting out creating a website for either themselves or for their business understanding all of the little things there are to know about the websites can be difficult. Usually when I get a phone call from a potential new client the first questions they ask me are how

May 16, 2007

Inspiration Bit has a group blogging project underway asking what is the source of your inspiration. The topic has been brewing in the back of my mind about what is my inspiration for this webmaster blog. The answer to what is my inspiration for creating and maintaining this blog is to

May 10, 2007

It is getting harder and harder to be able to keep up with all of the file formats there are available. Recently various clients I have, have sent me Word Perfect files, Microsoft Works files, MPEG video files, and the list keeps getting longer. ZamZar is an online file conversion

May 9, 2007

I love little tricks that make a huge difference to a website. This addition can cut your bandwidth, possibly by as much as half, and it will make your pages load faster for those on slower connections and all you have to do is enable GZIP compression. There is a great

May 9, 2007

There is a great article on title tags for your website over at Search-This. It is amazing how often title tags are ignored, even by the big web development companies. This is such a simple and easy thing to do. The post has six main points about

May 4, 2007

I know this is old news, as far as the Internet goes, but the PageRank update happened while I was away on vacation. I know there are a lot of people out there that say PageRank does not matter and it really does not mean anything. Personally I like seeing

May 4, 2007

Just StumbledUpon a couple of great Web 2.0 gradients that you can use in Photoshop to create buttons, logos, tabs, toolbars, backgrounds and all kinds of cool looking things for your websites. Photoshop: Web 2.0 Gradients Ultimate Web 2.0 Gradients I am sure these will come in handy for