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

May 2, 2007

According to Digg the Blog Kevin Rose finally realized that Digg was in trouble. Either Digg could run and hide from the lawyers or stand up for their users. But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go

May 2, 2007

I got a phone call yesterday from someone who was in an interesting predicament. Their web host had a hard drive failure and lost their website, the backups were corrupt, their web developer that had created their website was no where to be found, they didn't think they had any

May 2, 2007

I don't read Digg very often, but today was an interesting day to check out Digg. Will the mob rule of Digg bring down Digg itself? The controversy centers around a number and Digg's decision to remove the story twice. The original story is over at Rudd-o.com with a post

Apr 30, 2007

Well I got back from a great week off in Calgary last week and I am starting to work my way through the back log of things that accumulated while I was gone. One of my daily routines is to check in on how my websites are doing, usually that

Apr 19, 2007

Yesterday was a very busy day for news about StumbleUpon. As many of you probably already know StumbleUpon has been in acquisition discussions with a number of the large Internet companies recently, including Google and eBay. According to TechCrunch, StumbleUpon has signed a term sheet with eBay to be acquired.

Apr 17, 2007

I have talked about how it is important to test your websites in other browsers to make sure the site looks the way you want it to. While taking screenshots is one way of seeing if your website looks right, it does not give you the chance to make sure