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Domain Name Scan

I received this today and thought it was odd. Why should a company care whether some other company wants to buy a domain name like mine but with a different extension? Especially a company in China, a country not known for respecting copyrights and known for hacking computers to steal trade secrets?

So, if you get [...]

Pinterest - Quick & Dirty Explanation

Pinterest is sort of a visual Facebook.  Think of it like a bulletin board in a town hall, or rather a lot of bulletin boards, each belonging to an individual.    You create boards of interesting pictures (primarily) that you’ve run across online.  You could have a board for your favorite hobby, or your favorite grandkids… [...]

Google’s Plus and +1

If you’ve noticed the “+1″ by sites in search results or on ads and wondered what it was, it’s Google’s way of letting you recommend websites or companies. Kind of cool, assuming some black hats out there don’t figure out a way to spam it and give a website unwarranted pluses.

Along the same [...]

Business Cards & Your Image

No, I don’t mean putting your picture on your business card – though a lot realtors do that. 

Rather, I want to talk about what your business card says about you and your business.  I saw a great piece about this today on CBS’s Sunday Morning  and my own business cards are now going to become scratchpads.  

My [...]

Who Should Like Your Website Design?

Short answer:  It “ain’t” you, buddy.

Your website’s purpose is not to make you happy.   The goal of any commercial website is to get customers.   This is one of the hardest things I have to deal with in my business.

Clients have an idea or even a very specific design and color scheme that they want to [...]