Why should you help out web bots trying to scrape your data? Most users try to make their websites easy for search engines to crawl, but search engines usually only care about words and cache the entire page. There are other bots that look for...
Early this month, Google announced it was launching “Pages” for Google+. This was a great announcement for businesses that are seeking out new marketing techniques to reach new customers, especially with all the success businesses, brands, and products have had from Facebook Pages. Google Pages are...
I attended the Tulsa Tech Fest, or TTF for short, for the first time this year, and from a designer’s perspective, it was a little disappointing. However I would like to say that I fully support TTF and plan on going again. It’s a good...
I recently visited my parents. As usual they always have some question regarding some issue they have encountered with their computer. This used to irk me, but anymore, I just bear it and grin as it’s usually something relatively simple (ie can you make that...
With the holiday season fast approaching, now is a good time to examine your company's web presence. Online retail exposure is not a fad that is going away anytime soon. In fact, it is a growing segment with which you can augment your brick and...
I’ve used a few editors for various tasks, and each has advantages and disadvantages over the others. Personally, I’ve played with Dreamweaver, Notepad++, Sublime Text, and Eclipse. Some of these are a bit more popular than others. For more information, visit Wikipedia Comparison of HTML...
Well this can and has happened to the best of us. We had a new tech working on a server, and he just disconnected instead of logging off. I knew there was a work-around to get in, and it took me longer than I felt...
Vic Gundotra, Google’s Senior Vice President of engineering, was a speaker at the recent Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. He reportedly stated that brand pages will be arriving on the platform soon. Adding business pages will only add to the allure of using Google+...
A part of my Identity Process includes time to look into Typefaces that match the clients’ needs or what I feel best expresses their visual message. What is a Typeface you may ask? A Typeface is a family of character design ie. Helvetica, Georgia, Futura,...
Open Ports - Ports are different doors to your computer. Each computer on the internet has an IP Address that is that computers unique Address. Similar to each house in the US has a unique mailing address for its zip code. Once you talk...