Archive for March, 2006

Websites Getting Wider, 1024×768

Friday, March 31st, 2006

I’ve noticed a trend recently, and I’m not sure I like it. More and more sites are being designed which will not fit within the width of an 800×600 screen. Many of Apple’s new pages include graphics that are much wider than 800 pixels, and CNN redesigned their site layout in the past few days [...]

Rebuilding Sites for better SEO

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

I’ve just finished rebuilding a site for a client who offers translation services, LWT Communications. A graphic designer had created the original site, and there wasn’t much actual text on the site for search engines to gobble up. The designer had basically taken the work and created jpeg files for each of the pages. A [...]

Optimize Pages, Not Sites

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

This might be a simple tip for many people, but it could be an eye opener for some. When we think of SEO (search engine optimization) we often talk about how to optimize your site. Certainly many elements of SEO are on a site basis, for example proper use of heading tags (h1, h2, h3, [...]

Maine Buys lots of Apple iBooks

Monday, March 27th, 2006

Congratulations to the good ol’ State of Maine for purchasing another 36,000 iBooks. This makes me proud to be from Maine.
“We think this is a phenomenal proposal. Now we have to sit down and negotiate the intricacies of the program,” Maine Education Commission Susan Gendron said.
Sounds like a great deal to me as [...]

Mac Mini MediaMac

Friday, March 17th, 2006

I’m the proud owner of a new to me little Mac Mini which has been named MediaMac. Although I had contemplated a new MacBook Pro for myself, I decided to postpone that purchase and snag a Mac Mini.
The new computer will serve one major purpose, a Mac media center. I didn’t buy one just ’cause [...]

Comment Spammers Targeting Captchas

Monday, March 13th, 2006

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about fighting comment spam and how people are searching for things like “leave a comment” to find blogs to spam. I had another interesting piece of comment spam today which showed another interesting tactic people are now using against comment spam.
I use a captcha script… one of those [...]