A reader writes: You recently talked about the option of using Front Page or Dreamweaver to create good web pages. I need to decide which one to start using. Between the two, I’d definitely recommend Dreamweaver, but it’s not cheap and it does have a learning curve. (Doesn’t everything? *sigh*) You’ve got a very simple ...…
I saw Wheel Of Fortune last night… Remember when Vanna White used to actually have to flip over each mechanical box to reveal the letter on the other side? Those days are long gone. Now she walks over and touches a corner of the boxes that have already lit up (meaning she doesn’t even have ...…
Don’t ever downplay the importance of the name you give to a product. The influence it has on your potential customers deciding to buy it or not might shock you. For years, I used a program called “Cool Edit Pro” for music production. Pretty good name. Among other things it was the #1 software used ...…
Sometimes it seems like all the good ideas are taken… Especially if your idea is to sell crumpled up pieces of paper for $10 apiece. If you’ve: never really believed that it’s the story that sells a product, not the product itself… never really believed that art is in the eye of the beholder… never ...…
Any website owners profiting from selling advertising on their websites related to the embedded YouTube videos they’re showing are about to go down the tubes. Any time you aggregate others’ content to gain traffic and try to profit from it, you have to plan on it being a temporary situation. So all of the “Best ...…
Just a quick update – I posted the previous George Carlin post about 30 minutes ago, and it’s already indexed in Google. The title of the post was “George Carlin’s Seven Dirty Words – Keep The Sound Down!” And 30 minutes later, if I type this into Google search, that post comes up as the ...…
A looooong time ago way before the Internet had gone multimedia, I was up late browsing websites, and one was taking a long time to load. The speakers on my computer were up LOUD, and all of a sudden an audio of George Carlin rapid-firing his “seven dirty words” blared through my computer speakers. It ...…
A reader writes: When I do a search for my site in google you will see that the blue text underneath the url says that it is a new site hosed by fasthosts (my hosting company). It doesn’t seemed to have picked up any of the text in the site. What’s happened is that in ...…
The very popular cartoon show “Futurama” was canceled a few years ago and now they’re back with new episodes this season. The co-creator of the series said if it were 5 years earlier or 5 years later, that it wouldn’t have happened. Here’s why: There are two opposing forces at work caused by new technologies ...…
