How to Hire a Web Designer

A large portion of my clientele are folks who have gotten a bad deal or, in a lot of cases, made a bad deal for themselves when hiring a designer for their website. I spend a lot of time cleaning up other “designer’s” messes, in large part, because the client didn’t know a few key [...]

Riding the Google Wave

What is Google Wave? Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Google Wave is a real-time communication platform. It combines aspects of email, instant messaging, wikis, [...]

10 FREE Photo Editors for Windows

We all love free resources! I may be a “Mac Guy” but I still have nothing but love for those of you using my cousin the PC… So in the spirit of fairness I now provide you (the Windows users of the world) with not 5 but 10 FREE photo Editors for you to choose [...]

5 Free Photo Editors For Your Mac

If you are blogging or using social networks like Facebook or Twitter – you will eventually need some kind of photo editing software. Head and shoulders above the rest is Photoshop – Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current market leader for [...]

The Amazing Power of “HTTP://”

Huh? What’s that? Or even “yeah, so what…” How many times in an email, Facebook, Twitter or other sites have you seen a web address like this: www.govisitmysite.com and the damn thing isn’t clickable? A little annoying, right? How many times have you copied and pasted the link? My guess… very few. By adding these [...]

Google Ads Free 411

Are you sick of paying for 411 calls on you cell phone? Google has released this great information service. Just another way for Google to integrate the great features they have to make our lives easier. To learn more about this great Google feature click here.

3 Killer (Quality) Traffic Generating Techniques

There are many effective ways to drive targeted to your website traffic without having to resort to expensive pay per click. The quality of the traffic is good, and sometimes even better than those paying for clicks. Here are 3 to wet you appetite. And these methods are… Drum roll please… 1. Article Marketing Article [...]

Web Design – Form vs Function

Nobody wants to browse a web page full of text, because, let’s face facts it’s outright boring. When creating a web site, the developer has to implement in the web site components which will make the visitor come back and visit the page again. The perfect way to do this is by using web design [...]

New Site For Master Musician Mark Andes Launched

Spirit – I Got a Line on You [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Just wanted to announce the launch of our newest site for musician/master bassist Mark Andes. Heart, Spirit, Firefall, Canned Heat, Stevie Nicks, Dan Fogelberg, Whitesnake, Jo Jo Gunne, Chris Hillman, Kim Carnes, John Fahey, Iain Matthews, Kelly Willis, Jim Lauderdale, [...]

What Have You Been Watching on YouTube?

Hopefully you haven’t been doing anything on YouTube that you don’t want a federal court to find out… In it’s ongoing legal battle Viacom over copyright, a judge has ordered that Google must do the unthinkable… Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users’ names and [...]

Ning and the Art of the Viral Spiral

There is a great article in the new Fast Company Magazine all about the do it yourself social network “”Ning”. The article begins by letting us in on a little secret: Here’s something you probably don’t know about the Internet: Simply by designing your product the right way, you can build a billion-dollar business from [...]

New Website Design

All right, I have finally done it. In an effort to bring my clients great results, I have, for far too long, neglected this site. So, with a burst of energy, I did a major overhaul and full redesign. I feel it is very representitive of my overall work and felt it was very important [...]

The Perfect Blogger Tutorial

I have had a running argument on one of the popular search engine optimization and blogging forums about whether or not Google favors posts in its Blogger blog platform in search engine results. Now, that’s neither here nor there, what I’m going to talk about today is just how damn cool Google really is. Did [...]

SEO Tips from Network Solutions

Here is a great video about SEO (Search Engine Optimization, which I just did by the way). Stephanie Leffler of Network Solutions gives SEO Tips. She talks about all the things I am constantly harping on. Whether you are an e-commerce site or a local business. 3 things you need: 1. Content – Write articles [...]

The “Greening” of Google

In March 2007, Google announce that they were “going greener”.  In his Ars Technica blog post, Nate Anderson wrote on March 29, 2007: Google’s commitment to “green” means that the company sources carpet and sofas made without PVC, paints without volatile organic compounds, and cafeteria food from local growers. It’s not surprising, then, that they [...]

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