Archive for June, 2009

Today’s email asks, “To what extent does the impact (visual/navigation/user-friendly) of a web site affect the general public’s assessment of the quality of the services being offered?”
The basic best practices are still relevant.  Clear, unambiguous navigation, good content, fast loading, and keeping me interested from the first click (my click to your entry page), is [...]

I was reminded again today why I get joy in the web coding side of life.  I am a puzzle solver and like to make the code work the best it can for any potential visitor to any site I develop.  I am not a programmer, just a simple, self-taught HTML coder.
My real joy is [...]

Historical markers whiz past as we drive — even in our own neighborhood.
IDEA!
A GPS disk for the car! Before becoming rich and famous with this idea, I did an online search to discover what I already knew: every idea is out there many times over.  Our global world is certainly shrinking as all our ideas [...]

Interesting time this past few months as I bring to a close a 2-1/2 year home renovation project, get to know my neighborhood and meet new people, and begin to redefine myself a second time around as I start an Internet radio show on womensradio.com
All these involve using the web for research, to prove a [...]

When shopping online, you often see a place to put a coupon or referral number.  And you probably don’t have one.
Don’t despair. Just do a search for that coupon and you’ll find dozens of web sites where you can get a coupon.  Just this month, I registered for web hosting for only a penny with [...]

A list member asks,
Since there are only 24 hours in the day, and blogging takes time, I’d like to ask a few questions:

Do you blog?  What’s your blog like?

Do you get anything out of it (besides the satisfaction of writing)?  Help for your business, a job, advertising revenue, publicity for your nonprofit organization, a paycheck, [...]

It’s been a busy couple of weeks in Search Engine Land. Microsoft finally launched a re-branded Live Search called Bing and geeks everywhere have been consumed with comparisons between Google, Yahoo and Bing ever since. Microsoft held a widely heralded Bingathon or live infomercial on Hulu on June 8…to mixed reviews.  It also spent $80-100 [...]

Those of us in the peace and love generation entered the technology revolution and gold rush with a bit of the haze still surrounding us. Early adapters that we were, we trusted those more tech-savvy among us when they said they’d purchase our domain name for us, register it, and it would be ours forever.
Over [...]