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Suggestions for Interviewing Web Programmers
2008-04-29 07:19:28
How do you go about interviewing a web programmer to make sure that his code isn’t as rumpled as his shirt? We’ve been hiring at Sebo Marketing, and my experience leads me to focus on four main areas when I talk to potential hires: Four Parts of a Web Programmer Interview General Knowledge It’s usually a good idea to [...] ...

A List of Fonts that Are Safe for the Web
2008-03-06 08:15:38
Before I kick off my spiel, here is the link to the List of Web-safe Fonts Typography is an important area of design, even on the web. Fonts, leading, letter-spacing, and other typographical choices say things about your site’s character and content and influence the likelihood that site visitors will actually read your content. Typographic Choices Are [...] ...

10 Questions You Should Ask Yourself About Your Website
2008-01-30 09:21:58
Every once in a while, it’s important to step back and evaluate how you are doing when it comes to the fundamentals of your field or industry. Because my field is Internet marketing and websites, I came up with 10 questions you can ask yourself to determine how well your site and online strategy are [...] ...
Questions  Website 

A New Domain Name Research Tool
2008-01-13 08:24:15
To create a successful site, you must find a need and then fill it. Tabeze is trying to do just that when it comes to domain name research. One of the basic problems of many domain name research tools is the time it takes to determine whether or not each domain is already registered or not. [...] ...
Domain  Domain Name  Research  Tool 

Google’s Invalid New Tracking Code
2007-12-20 05:50:31
Google recently came out with a new tracking code for its Analytics service. It has a cool new feature, but validators also choke on it. Let’s Fix the Code Virtually all browsers in use today understand that they should ignore what’s in between <script> tags. For the most part, we don’t have to insert comment tags <!-- [...] ...
Code  Google  Tracking 

Awesome Rollovers with CSS Sprites
2007-12-13 09:30:31
If you haven’t learned to do a CSS rollover effect yet, it’s time to learn—they’ve become a main-stay of modern web design and do just about everything better than a Javascript rollover (there are a few exceptions, which I will discuss briefly later) The Basics of a CSS Sprite Rollover The basic concept of a CSS sprite [...] ...
Css 

Free Web Images Can Really Cost You
2007-11-10 21:07:10
The Internet is a fantastic place. Websites are simply clamoring for your attention, and many of them will give you something for free just for stopping by. You don’t have to pay to access most web sites, either. You can browse or search for just about anything and find a free resource that fills your [...] ...
Web 

Destroy Your Site
2007-11-01 06:23:20
Have you ever felt like just trashing your web site? Melting, burning, shooting, shredding, oozing? But then you realize how much work a site is and you think better of it. Then you start to wish that you could destroy someone else’s site. Especially someone else’s site that is ugly, has invalid code, or promotes political [...] ...
Site 

Blog Rush and Google’s Terms of Service
2007-10-31 08:33:45
Some people have wondered: is Blog Rush against the Google AdSense terms of service? Blog Rush, as I see it, is NOT against Google AdSense’s terms of service. The Google AdSense blog says: As many of you already know, our program policies strictly prohibit any means of artificially generating ad impressions or clicks, including third-party services such as [...] ...
Blog  Google  Service 

Are You a Weasel?
2007-10-23 01:36:17
No? Good. Otherwise I’d be skewering you in this post, too. We all know the type, though—two-faced, double-dealing, hypocritical, dealing behind closed doors, polished smile with forked tongue, amicable but back-stabbing. A Real-life Weasel I have a recent example. No real names or specific information will be used because I’m not 100% sure I have all the information [...] ...

A Detailed Review of Blog Rush
2007-09-28 08:22:58
I recently learned about a new traffic generating system called Blog Rush. I’m usually very skeptical of such systems, but this one had some very interesting unique ideas that kept me on the hook just long enough to try it. The system is in Beta, and there have been a few hiccups more than most [...] ...
Blog  Review 

Page Rehab - Getting Pages out of Supplemental Results
2007-09-13 07:55:52
You’ve been working hard on your site, posting new content regularly, playing by the rules, being a good netizen and all that good stuff. One day you decide to check and see how you are doing in Google’s index. So you type in site:yoursite.com to see how many pages have been indexed. Oh the horror! A large [...] ...
Rehab 

Safari for Windows
2007-08-14 08:16:26
This may be old news for most of you, but Apple has released Safari for Windows. You can get the download here. Lots of people wrote about how increasing support for Safari increases support for the iPhone development community… I’d like to focus on what it means for the web design/web standards community. Simplified(?) Testing My initial impression, like [...] ...
Safari  Windows 

Buying a House
2007-07-25 08:15:22
My wife and I have been looking for a house to buy intensively in the last month. Most of my free time has shifted away from my site and over to house-related tasks. We were really close on one deal—we made an offer on a duplex that was accepted. We were within 2 days of closing [...] ...
House 

Creating Images for the Web with Scalable Vector Graphics
2007-06-17 09:22:27
Vector graphics could be one of the best things to happen to the web. Think about it—any user of any device could scale the entire site, including graphics, text, and rendered HTML elements to the size he or she wants without mucking up how it looks. Only photographs and other images that don’t convert well [...] ...
Graphics  Vector  Web 

Testing Multiple Versions of IE Simultaneously
2007-05-31 05:59:29
When it comes to cross-browser compatibility, no browser causes more pain and suffering than Internet Explorer—no version is as standards-compliant as Firefox, Opera, or Safari, and every version has its own unique bugs and issues. The majority of CSS hacks, testing, and workarounds are for Internet Explorer. Testing has been a major pain, requiring a [...] ...
Simultaneously  Versions 

Initial Tag A Cloud Results
2007-05-21 22:00:23
I wrote a few months ago introducing Tag A Cloud as a possible method for generating free traffic to a site. At this point, I think the results are mixed. Starting Off I signed up with Tag A Cloud back in January. I put a link on my site in a blog post I wrote about Tag [...] ...
Cloud  Initial 

Happy 2nd Birthday DiamondLime!
2007-05-19 00:25:36
DiamondLime is two years old today. Happy Birthday! I haven’t posted as much in the last year as I did the year before, but I have managed to make (in my opinion) quality posts. I also managed to keep posting through some busy stretches at work and the birth of my second child, Lucy. I know, [...] ...
Birthday  Happy Birthday 

New Sebo Marketing Site
2007-05-15 09:09:35
We’ve released a new version of SeboMarketing.com! Old Site The old version of SeboMarketing.com had a number of problems with it. Many of these problems fell into “The cobbler’s children have no shoes” category—as Internet marketers, we know better than to make some of the mistakes that were being made, but we’ve been so focused on our [...] ...
Marketing  Site 

The Future of User-Generated Content
2007-04-25 10:08:21
Many user-generated content sites face one (or several) problems, including the following: Copyright Issues Site users occasionally post content that is copyright, or steal the content generated by others on the site. Quality Issues Without an incentive to do high-quality work, users will post “just good enough” (or “not quite good enough!”) content to fill a particular purpose. Quantity Issues Without [...] ...
Future 

The Most Decisive Factor
2007-04-03 09:10:45
People are the most decisive factor in your company. Think about it: without people, who would be running the computers, operating the machines, or answering the phones? Who would be buying anything that you sell? I know that this is definitely an obvious observation, but I thought I would take the time to make you think about [...] ...

Do You “Get” It?
2007-03-16 07:50:19
Or are you like me? I had a recent experience where I didn’t get what I needed to understand, and I didn’t even know what I needed to know. It was one of those situations where my lack of experience was so profound that I couldn’t even possibly be expected to understand what I didn’t know [...] ...

Mum’s the Word?
2007-03-02 08:18:32
Let’s imagine that you have a hot new web service. An AJAX-powered, Web 2.0, community-based Google killer. Let’s also assume that, like most new web services, you have limited time to reach critical mass and profitability before you run out of money. How Do You Promote Your Service? So what do you do to promote your service? [...] ...
Word 

Urgent - Back Up Your Data!
2007-02-14 07:23:00
Computers are very interesting things. They can save us tons of time and increase our capacity and productivity, but because we rely on them so much, when they fail, things get scary. I have wanted to back up my system or get a new one so I can protect my data for months now, but I have also been doing my best to save money and use my time for what’s most important, which means that buying a new machine or spending time doing extensive backups hasn’t happened. Yesterday evening, I came home from work to find my laptop in the flaming throes of death, like someone had thrown a grenade in the internals. Actually, it just wouldn’t boot to Windows. I feared that all my data was gone. I panicked inside—months and months of lost data and photos. My laptop has always run very hot. Unknown to me, as it has gotten older, the fan has made the exact same noise but has been pushing less air, which means that my laptop has gotten ever-so-gradually hotter over the last 3 years ...
Data  Urgent