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I voted. Had to hold my nose on some of my choices, but I did it. This would have been […]
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I recently had 2 diametrically opposite experiences with phishing. In the world of the Internet, “phishing” is when some entity […]
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So I got a gentle tweak from Zack Katkin at Unique ID Web Design because I haven’t blogged in a […]
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Many of my clients already have an existing web site when they contact me. Often they’re unhappy with their site’s […]
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Difficult as it may be to believe, but by January of 2007, Google is still unable to recognize when URLs […]
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Yesterday I sniped at Google with my No NoFollow post, but today I’m here to praise Google. The technology that […]
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For about the umpteenth time, this morning I responded to a question on a newsgroup by some poor soul who […]
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What do web site development, search engine optimization and Hippocrates have in common? A line from the Hippocratic Oath comes […]
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I use a fairly wide variety of software programs in my work, on both the Mac and PC platforms (primarily Mac, of course). Some programs stand head and shoulders above the others, because they provide so much value, and/or make my work (and my life) easier.
Adobe’s 800-lb. gorilla, Photoshop, is of course the mother of all graphics programs. Vector graphics, raster images, photos, scanning, touching up, resizing, cropping, retouching, batch processing. Every version of Photoshop is better than the last.
But everyone knows about Photoshop, whether they use it or not. What about all those little programs and utilities that not everyone knows about?
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Search engine optimization (SEO) is often referred to as if it is some single monolithic task. It’s not. SEO includes […]
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