Archive for January, 2008
« Previous EntriesDreamweaver? Frontpage? NVU? Kompozer?
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 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 website, and if you’re [...]
Post Articles Online And Get Free Promotion To Your Website
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008It’s a well-known that posting related articles online that link back to your website is one of the best ways to get free promotion.
It helps in two ways:
People who read the article and click through to your website are already pre-sold on you before they even get to your website
Having those extra links to your [...]
Vanna White Is Indispensable
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
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 [...]
“Adobe Audition” Is A Terrible, Terrible Name…
Saturday, January 19th, 2008Don’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 by [...]
Selling Wadded Up Paper For $10 Apiece
Thursday, January 17th, 2008Sometimes 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 really believed that a lot [...]
YouTube-Based Businesses Going Down The Tubes
Thursday, January 17th, 2008Any 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 of [...]
Why Your Website Should Use Blog Software: INSTANT Indexing
Friday, January 11th, 2008 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 [...]
George Carlin’s 7 Dirty Words - Keep The Sound Down!
Friday, January 11th, 2008A 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 [...]
Getting Google To Re-Index Your New Website
Thursday, January 10th, 2008A 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 [...]
Futurama Creator Says “Short Window” For Series Renewal
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
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 [...]