I recently was talking to a friend of mine, a lawyer, who over dinner was complaining about Yelp. It seemed to me he had the same issue i have had with them, for years. He realized then as I did long ago that yelp is similar to the protection racket that ran rancid in seedy […]
With WordPress you ordinarily don't have to do much extra coding, there are so many plugins that are helpful for that. But sometimes you just have to roll up your sleeves and bite the bullet. And sometimes you can do it with just CSS but when that fails you absolutely have to use jQuery. This […]
A client needed to have a form which will do the following - Have visitors to their site take out an annual membership with the choice to automatically renew at the end of the year long subscription period, as well as have them donate to one of two donation possibilities - a scholarship fund or […]
Have you ever gotten a LinkedIn invitation to your email account and wondered why? And did you know that your contacts were used by LinkedIn to send invitations to others, and know they feel spammed? There is something you can do about it. You gave permission to LinkedIn unknowingly by not reading through all their […]
What is the right price for a website? I think most business owners agree that without even looking they can't afford to have one! Perhaps they were given the number by a web design company of say 6500.00. They might have put down 1500 as a formal deposit, received the contract for review, signed off, […]
I was recently talking to a colleague and he said he's like to be on page one for all the keywords in the industry. Well that is the gist of it, but i am paraphrasing. But no matter how you slice it is it realistic or even possible? Well the answer is yes and no, […]
At one time in my life i was majoring in Creative Writing ( late 60's, early 70's) and sort of minoring in Russian Language. I had a surrealist view of the world, with an emphasis on existentialism. I wsa fascinated with Black Mountain Poetry, Zen Haiku, American Poetry by imagists and Dostoevsky. I liked Robert […]
A very simplistic audit of websites will probably demonstrate several faults - here is a list of some of them - see if you can find sites that have these defects. Can’t find the info - Navigation Unwanted Distractions - Flash Too much content/links/photos Poor font choices Browser incompatibilities Can’t see the video on their […]
Lately I have been incorporating more localization into my efforts for clients. What are some of the best practices for that and what exactly is localization anyway and why bother? What are the benefits of localization and who wants or needs the effort involved? And what does it cost? I will try to answer some […]
