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Firefox 5/6 — No New Windows!

July 21, 2011 by Sonja Ray 7 Comments

Firefox

I have Firefox 5 and Firefox 6 installed on my Mac. Nice browser, still my favorite, but it’s got a […]

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Filed Under: Browsers, Rants

A Face Lift in Cape Coral?

July 24, 2008 by Sonja Ray Leave a Comment

I received a well-written, but completely absurd, spam e-mail yesterday. It started out by saying: “I was looking at websites […]

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Filed Under: Rants, Search Engines

WordPress Upgrade

July 17, 2008 by Sonja Ray Leave a Comment

WordPress version 2.6 just came out. I installed it from scratch on a new blog. The installation went beautifully, and […]

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Filed Under: Rants, Software, WordPress

Ethics and Web Design – The Professional Responsibility of the Web Designer

March 14, 2008 by Sonja Ray 2 Comments

Apparently I’m part of a small minority of web developers who believe that the developer has a level of professional […]

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Filed Under: Rants, Search Engines, Web Site Design, Web Standards

Phishing and Phishing Detection

January 5, 2008 by Sonja Ray Leave a Comment

A PayPal Phishing Attempt

I recently had 2 diametrically opposite experiences with phishing. In the world of the Internet, “phishing” is when some entity […]

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Filed Under: Microsoft, Rants, Technology

Bad Hosting Costs $$ and Wastes Time

October 16, 2007 by Sonja Ray Leave a Comment

Poor hosting companies waste time and cost money. I needed to set up a MySQL database for a client recently. […]

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Filed Under: Hosting, MySQL, Rants

Correcting Bad Information

October 1, 2007 by Sonja Ray Leave a Comment

The amount of misinformation out there on the web is almost enough to make a person crazy. I ran across […]

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Filed Under: Rants, Search Engines

No NoFollow, NoSnitching

April 25, 2007 by Sonja Ray 4 Comments

The infamous Google spam czar Matt Cutts has fired another round at honest webmasters just trying to go about their […]

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Filed Under: Google, Rants

Dumb Error Messages

January 23, 2007 by Sonja Ray 1 Comment

Microsoft is the master, but many, many programmers and software development companies are guilty. I can’t count the number of […]

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Filed Under: Microsoft, Rants

No NoFollow

January 14, 2007 by Sonja Ray 3 Comments

I just edited the files in my wordpress template to remove all traces of the rel=”nofollow” attribute from links in […]

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Filed Under: Google, Rants

Missing images

January 14, 2007 by Sonja Ray Leave a Comment

For about the umpteenth time, this morning I responded to a question on a newsgroup by some poor soul who […]

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Filed Under: Rants, Technology

Web site development, SEO, and Hippocrates

January 13, 2007 by Sonja Ray Leave a Comment

What do web site development, search engine optimization and Hippocrates have in common? A line from the Hippocratic Oath comes […]

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Filed Under: Rants, Search Engines, Technology, Web Standards

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