As of this week, there is a major shift in the web industry to force SSL encryption on all websites (but especially on ecommerce websites, those that require a login, or deliver cookies – which is just about every website on the internet). A web vulnerability was discovered through a Firefox web browser extension called [...]
Here’s a question I get all of the time: How much server space and bandwith does my website need? The quick and honest answer is that it varies widely from one website to another and each website should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis for it’s server requirements. For most simple websites, 10 GB of [...]
I was browsing the internet as I normally do on a typical morning and checking out the rankings on the SERPs for various keywords that are important to me. I also check out the competition and see what they’re advertising. Keeping up with the Jones’ of web design can be an important aspect of my [...]
Is owning a pre-2004 domain name a guarantee for success online? We’ll quickly examine the rumor and expose the myth for what it is – a scam.
Is Twitter positioned to become a real threat for Facebook in the social networking marketplace? Perhaps. The new Twitter has some promising features and user interaction that may make the platform much more addictive.
Yesterday, hospitals across the United States saw emergency room visits increase nearly 300%. The patients were primarily suffering from headaches, chest pains and confusion. Some victims even entered a zombie-like state and began gathering en-mass in several cities across the country. Fearing that is was an outbreak of some kind, the Centers for Disease Control [...]
Poor coding can lead to poor results when you’re marketing your website through the search engines. There’s a few simple things you can do to make your website SEO ready. I will describe five things that will make your webpages shine and make them more visible in the search engines.
Internet Explorer 6 is perhaps the worst web browser ever conceived by those glorious minds at Microsoft. Web designers around the globe have been in a constant battle with this horribly outdated browser. However, there is hope on the horizon – the end of IE6 may be closer than we realize.
Just a couple of days ago, I wrote about Bing powering Yahoo! search results. In that blog article, I talked about the potential changes that could occur to the search engine results page marketing strategy. Well, they have already begun. This afternoon, I received an email from Microsoft adCenter stating that migration of current Yahoo! [...]
The default WordPress comment system is OK, but I wanted something more. So this past weekend, I decided to switch The Apheus Blog over to a new comment system powered by IntenseDebate. There are lots of other websites using ID, so I thought I would give it a whirl. I’ve been very pleased with the transition and it opens up a number of comment-tastic possibilities. In my opinion, IntenseDebate is the future of blog commenting.