There’s a great little article at the Sun.com (Sun Microsystems) web design blog today — all about web design by Vice Presidents (who ought to know better…)
Submitting Your Website to Search Engines
If you have a web-based business or if a significant portion of your business is done on the web through your website, then the best advertising and marketing is done by submitting to a search engine. No amount of press release, newspaper or radio ad, banner ad, spam email or newsletter will achieve the same [...]
Blogging to Share and Exchange Information
WordPress is one of the most popular blog software packages and is available free for use in your own web hosting package. Or, as one of my subscribers did, you can create your blog for free at wordpress.com. This subscriber is using his blog to share genealogical research information with other family members. That’s why [...]
High Pagerank Domain Fraud
I ran across a very interesting article that brings a warning to anyone wanting to buy a domain name from a broker, on eBay™ or in almost any other way at a price premium over normal registrar pricing. It appears that Google’s PageRank can be faked, or at least manipulated, for a short time. Read [...]
Suggested Web Design Resources
I am often asked which resources (books, etc.) that I recommend for people who want to create web sites. Many web hosts, such as Powweb, provide basic templates for easy creation of a web site. These can be your base for your very first web site, or can function as a quick way to set [...]
New Version of WordPress Blog Software
WordPress.org released version 2.1, codenamed Ella (for jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald) in mid-January. So far, I like the changes and improvements. Upgrading from the previous version was easy, although it required locking the site and deleting almost all the previous WordPress files and replacing them with the new versions of the files. This step was [...]
