Mar 5, 2007

I was taking a break from coding today and took a quick peek at TechCrunch. TechCrunch had a nice writeup on AddThis, a new widget that I was starting to see on blogs around the web. The AddThis widget is a way for your readers to bookmark

Mar 5, 2007

One of the easiest ways to start to monetize a website or blog is to sign up for Google Adsense. Google Adsense ads are contextual, which means the ads should be related to the information that is on your website, and should be of interest to your visitors. There is

Mar 3, 2007

Trailfire is one of those Web 2.0 applications that makes it possible for people to create custom web tours or trails. To be able to create a web trail you need to be using Firefox and install a toolbar. The toolbar itself adds a new menu item

Mar 3, 2007

I don't have a lot of domain names that I am not doing something with, but I have a few. I had most of them parked over at Sedo, I thought I might be able to make a few cents off of them if people, for some reason, typed in

Mar 2, 2007

According to Wikipedia a mashup is a website or application that combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience. Web mashups are turning the web on its head by combining information from multiple sources and presenting them in a whole new way. You can find a directory of

Mar 1, 2007

If an image is worth a thousand words then finding the right images for a website is crucial. Not everyone has the resources to buy stock photographs for every website, thankfully there are stock photo resources on the internet that make it easy to find the right image.

Feb 28, 2007

I was asked the other day if search engines favor a .html file extension versus a .php file extension? The answer I gave the client was no, it makes no difference, search engines will index pages with both file extensions the same, but there are some things that can make

Feb 28, 2007

There are a great deal of directories out there. How do you know which ones are worth submitting your website to and which ones are not worth your time. If your goal is to increase the number of links back to your website, and possibly your PageRank, you should look

Feb 26, 2007

It happened to me again. I updated a site and did not go and check what it looked like in an older version of Internet Explorer on Windows 98. It does not matter how long you have been doing web updates, and how simple the updates are, somethings just do

Feb 25, 2007

I was stumbling along today and kept running across Digg stories. The first was about the "Digg mafia" spamming the Yahoo suggestion board. The second article was similar, talking about the "Digg mafia" and why it will cost Keven Rose millions. That article had an interesting graph of Digg traffic