“Web Sites That Work!”
Startup Nation recently published an article “Eight Steps to Win at Blogging.” I could find only seven steps, but they’re all very good:
Choose a host. Bodnar says outside hosts like TypePad, WordPress and Blogger are easy and cheap, “but you’re limited to storage size and features.†You get what you pay for, he says, when [...]
FreeforInvestors.com is the latest creation of the Web Publishing Group. It allows investors to get free information from Dow Jones, The Economist, and a wide variety of investment newsletter publishers.
In addition to serving investors, it also serves the marketer who runs the site. The website captures the contact information of those requesting information, and [...]
Web Publishing Group and Mary Cronin Design have just completed a new, database-driven website for the West Washtenaw Business Association (WWBA). The WWBA brings together independent professionals and small business who are interested in improving economic, environmental, and security conditions within the community. The WWBA provides a forum for communication, group benefit participation, and social [...]
The Inc. magazine website has two articles on choosing domain names:
10 Tips for Choosing a Domain Name
Choosing the Perfect Domain Name
They both offer similar advice, including:
always use dot.com and
use company names and brand names.
Both are good pieces of advice.
Recently, I had to implement an events calendar on a website I was working on. My first idea was to find an open source package written in PHP. I did some Web searching and found the following:
VCalendar
WebCalendar
iCalendar
PHP iCalendar
After thinking about this a bit more, though, I opted for an online calendar. The two that I [...]
I like to use contact forms on websites because I think forms encourage users to respond more often than a simple mailto: link. The problem with forms is that they’re abused by spambots. The form I have on w8pgw.org, for example, is spammed so often, I’d say that the ratio of spam to real messages [...]
Is there nothing Google doesn’t do? Their latest is the Google Website Optimizer. Using this tool, you select sections of a Web page that you want to test and then develop options. For example, you might try three different headlines to see which one works best.
After you choose which section to test, you also choose [...]
While PHP has enabled even the most novice programmer to build Web applications, the result is often poorly-coded websites that are a bear to maintain. I should know. I’ve worked on this kind of project myself.
The problem is that building a proper software infrastructure for each project is a time-consuming process, and the cost of [...]
There are several good content-management systems or publications, such as Vignette, that will satisfy just about any content-management need that a publishing company could come up with. The problem? They’re expensive—both to set up and to maintain.
These are definitely not solutions for small publishers. A friend of mine worked for a publisher who installed [...]
I was recently asked to quote on a project that involved determining a person’s:
ZIP+4 code from a street address and five-digit ZIP code and
the Congressional district from the ZIP+4 code.
My first thought was to contact the U.S. Postal Service to see what they offered. They offer something called the ZIP+4 Product, which is a big [...]
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