Archive for May, 2005

Before, During… and Soon After - Maine Photographer Gary Pearl

Friday, May 6th, 2005

Maine photographer Gary Pearl recently came to me asking for assistance with his photography website. I agreed (fully) that it needed a facelift.
His website reminded me of the commercial where the doctor is on the phone with his patient. His patient is sitting at home with a butter knife in hand while the doctor gives [...]

SEO Browser shows what your website looks like to a search engine

Thursday, May 5th, 2005

One of the bigger struggles I have as a website developer is explaining to people the difference between actual text, and a graphic image of text. Think of the photographs from your last vacation. Do you have any photos of yourself or your family beside a sign showing where you were? (If not, just pretend [...]

Fast Company article about email hoaxes

Wednesday, May 4th, 2005

About once per month or so I host a mini Mac user group meeting for a few friends. In our most recent meeting we discussed various aspects of internet security such as viruses, spam, phishing, and identity theft.
We also discussed email hoaxes. Today I came across this article in Fast Company that discusses email hoaxes. [...]

Wikipedia - Potential source for inbound links

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005

For those who don’t know, there is a fantastic resource called Wikipedia, self described as the free-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit. I have occasionally used Wikipedia to research topics when I wasn’t having luck with Google.
Recently while reviewing website log files for one of my websites I discovered one of the Wikipedia pages was [...]