Good ol’ P.T. Barnam. He famously said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” Oh how often I see that to be true. Then just when I’m getting a little bit of hope – the next thing hits. Love it or hate it, the Internet has been making suckers of more and more people for a good long time now. The latest incarnation for me has just appeared in a recent “Page Invitation” on Facebook.

In 2009 there was a lot of buzz about the potential opportunities offered by location-based applications and functionality for local marketing use. What if a coupon could be delivered via your cell phone as you walked by a Starbucks? Read More

According to Jason Kincaid at TechCrunch, YouTube just announced that they will be expanding closed captioning support for all videos on YouTube and rolling out an auto-captioning feature on videos featuring the English language.

Woah.

With the advent of the Internet and social networking sites, we have all become more comfortable and complacent in communicating with clients and colleagues online. What we forget is that for thousands of years before the digital revolution, our primary form of communication has always been face-to-face conversation. It is important for us to step away from our keyboards from time to time and have a real conversation with someone. Read More

If you’re having problems constructing a nice footer on your website using only CSS, you should check out this implementation. Very nicely done:
http://www.cssstickyfooter.com/ Read More

Don’t use words that exist in the dictionary.
Don’t use simple number substitutes such as “0”s for “o”s or “1”s for “I”s.
Don’t user obvious words for people or places you may know.
Don’t use the same password for longer than two years.
Use different passwords for public and private online services. For example, don’t use the same password for social media services as you would use for online banking. Financial institutions are known for their heightened security practices. Read More

When designing website navigation it is important to remember user expectations and familiarity. Users are finicky and you only have a few seconds to keep their attention. If you are tempted to design something the user has never seen before, don’t. Imagine if every car designer moved the placement of the steering wheel and gauges for the sole sake of aesthetics. Read More

When developing a website it is very common for people to forget about the print style sheet.

There are several basic things to consider when selecting a content management system for your organization’s website. Here are three key things to consider before making you decision.

Recently Google announced a new feature in Google Reader that lets you create a custom feed to track changes on pages that don’t have their own feed. Read More