It is the last day of June so it is time again to start gathering statistics. Just a few quick items to report until tomorrow. Across all of the keywords I track I jumped a total of 156 positions. Each keyword I track jumped an average of 2.2 positions this month and my average keyword [...]
I’ll throw this out there for Google to grab in case anybody else needs to do this… I have a MySQL database with a table containing a field called date. In that field (which was poorly setup as a text field) I wanted to change the format of the contents from a MM/DD/YYYY format to [...]
Coming soon will be a website for the legendary Maine songwriter and storyteller, Jud Strunk. For now, you can listen to a preview of his hit song, Daisy a Day.
How often do you hear a story like this regarding a customer service department of a technical company?
Friday Afternoon: After spending a fully day troubleshooting my network connection (it is slightly more complicated than the average home network) I attribute my periodic network failures to my Apple Airport Express base station. Bottom line is [...]
Yesterday I mentioned my lack of enthusiasm for the stability of Mac OS 10.4 Tiger. Well, I might have solved some of my problems.
I figured my problem was system-wide since many different applications would randomly crash. And then on page 71 of the July 2005 edition of MacWorld I found a hint to my problem. [...]
Someone asked me the other day what I thought about Mac OS 10.4 Tiger and its stability. Basically as far as I’m concerned it is the least stable major release since 10.0 and 10.1. For the first time in years I have applications that unexpectedly crash daily. Mail.app, Safari, and QuickBooks Pro seem to be [...]
Okay, okay, so I had restrained myself all this time trying not to post about this subject. But it is about time I jumped on the bandwagon and started talking about the Apple / Intel announcement.
First, I’ll say I have no idea if this will be a good idea for Apple. I can only speculate [...]
Normally when you think of optimizing websites or pages for certain keywords you think just a few keywords. It can be challenging to optimize for large volumes of keywords, keeping your important keywords ranking well at the same time.
Now when I meet with clients we create two lists. One list is short and consists of [...]
Although not a website I designed, I’ve been consulting the International Aeronauts League of Ballooning on how they might improve their website and reach more people.
Phase one was completed yesterday by eliminating the use of frames on the website. This alone should help spiders index the site more completely. Using frames can have a [...]
Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) is a growing field. Some clients are hiring one company to design the aesthetics and visual design for a website, another firm to construct the website, and yet another company to provide search engine optimization and marketing services.
So what if you hire one company to do all of them? [...]