Ok. So Blumenthal had an interesting post detailing with a pie chart how to get your google local listing 100% complete.
Although whether this matters or not is up to debate and the odds are on the side of it NOT mattering.
But it is fun to have a 100% nonetheless so I tested it out [...]
I found this today.
John Onolan is teaching others how to form web design businesses. Interesting.
how to start a web design business
Website security is always on the mind of web developers. I know it is always one of my top concerns.
here is a wordpress dev blog post about recent (and age old) ideas on security:
keeping wordpress secure
People’s misconceptions about the workings of search engine optimisation are rampant.
A little knowledge is usually a very dangerous, or (in this case) annoying thing.
Clients and potential clients always have questions about meta tags or they are completely sure that meta tags are some kind of magic and they need them even though I [...]
Another site the frog would like to imitate:
http://www.dezinerfolio.com/
I don’t consider my self a web “designer.” Instead I like to think of myself as a web developer (code), and even more specifically as a web marketer.
The reason for that is simple… I have very basic design skills.
I don’t make pretty things. I make powerful web engines [...]
Google is often very good at explaining the complex in simple terms.
Here is a brilliantly constructed interactive guide to Google Adwords Settings
So you thought you were special because you knew shortcuts like “alt+tab” to switch between open windows, function keys, “j” and “k” to navigate between emails in gmail and “ctrl+tab”/”ctrl+shift+tab” in firefox to switch between tabs?
I bet you impressed a few “regular” people with your superior nerd skills. But that was just the tip of [...]
Ok.
So I am doing a little project for a client and I was copying some pictures from one folder to another to re-size them.
The destination folder already had some of the pictures already re-sized and I did not want to copy over them.
Windows (I am not at my Linux PC at the moment) has [...]
So, I started seeing these strange additions to ads on general keywords that are being run by local advertisers doing geo-targeted campaigns.
So I would type in “XYZ information” and the ads on the right would have “XYZ service, Florida.”
hmmm. That’s new…
Then today I receive an email from google talking about “location extensions” haven’t figured [...]
I am definitely having “one of those days.”
I have clients ask me for ridiculous things all the time.
Here is my theory as to why this happens (particularly to technical people like myself).
As a techie I like to wow my clients with the amazing things the technology can do. I like to show them a [...]
