If you receive a renewal notice by U.S. mail or email for your domain name, please be careful! It is quite possibly that it is NOT a valid invoice! Several registrars are targeting unsuspecting domain owners with domain expiration notices disguised as renewal invoices. These phony "invoices", which are sent by...
Remove your e-mail address from your website If you list or link to your e-mail address(es), you WILL be spammed. Address-harvesting robots (known as spambots) will spider your site and other web sites throughout the internet and extract them. So remove them wherever possible and use web-based forms instead. Bower Web...
Not content to bombard our inboxes with spam, rogue keypunchers are now over whelming the Web, as well. During a three-month study in 2010, PandaLabs, an anti-malware developer, found that cyber criminals, on a daily basis, churn out thousands of websites designed to deceive users and manipulate search engines. By...
Regardless of what your company does, its overall size or the market you serve, the reality in today's business world is you need a website. Period. I would be hard pressed to find anyone that would disagree with this observation. It goes without saying, your company should have an appealing,...
You may be surprised to learn that YouTube is the second-largest search engine. It is bigger than Yahoo. It is bigger than Microsoft's Bing, according to most sources (which kind of makes sense given the fact that YouTube is now owned by Google). That being said, you are...
If you are like me, there simply isn't enough hours in the day to get all your work done while trying to learn new skills AND keep up with industry news. Fortunately by signing up for or subscribing to RSS feeds (Really Simple Syndication), you can save hours of time...
Have you ever gone into an electronics store and looked at the wall filled with different televisions? Different models, sizes, manufacturers, different technologies - all tuned to the same station for demonstration purposes. You may even notice two televisions, made by the SAME manufacturer with the SAME exact specifications, right...
In the world of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), if you pose the question "How do I get listed on the first page of a search engine?" to several different web professionals, you will get several different answers. Some are correct (for the time being, at least) and many more are...
This discussion comes up quite a lot with both our clients and with fellow web developers. So I wanted to try to set the record straight. Blogs are different from "standard" websites in several ways. If you know someone arguing the point that a "blog" site is exactly the same...
