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YouTubeMidnight oil, SSI or database?
Here I am burning the midnight oil. I am planning to create a Bible commentary website. I would like to have tooltips on all names to explain their meaning (Jewish names are not proper names, they all mean something), tooltips or pop-ups on all geographical location to show a map, time lines, authorship and chronological information (when wer [...]
SCROOGLED revisited and some facts ab...
I published an article a while ago about “Scroogled”. Today I checked scroogled.com and found this: “Unlike Google, Windows Phone Store doesn’t share your personal information with app makers.”
It’s time revisit the subject. First of all, the statement above it’s true. Google shares your information w [...]
SCROOGLED
I recently watched a commercial, which led me to a website. It’s hard for me to know how to start. Maybe “the grapes are sour”? Or “we cannot compete so we’ll just bad mouth”? How about “I’m desperate, don’t know what to do so I’ll have a temper tantrum”?
How silly of an argume [...]
Web Design, Web Hosting and SEO tools...
This is a subsection of “Ten ways or so to good Web Design and SEO in Austin”, Web Design, Web Hosting and SEO tools.
My background is in experiments, electronic and electromechanical R&D and design, testing, installation and commissioning. I learned the hard way the cost of not having the right tool. I’m sure Tesla or Farnsworth co [...]
Bing local address idiosyncrasy
I managed to verify my address with Bing local at the third try. Twice I did not receive my snail mail card with the confirmation code. The first time, after a few weeks, I rechecked everything and realized the card was sent to my address, BUT, it was missing the apartment number. I asked Bing to mail another card and told the mailman to put [...]
Ten ways or so to good Web Design and...
This is a subsection of “Ten ways or so to good Web Design and SEO in Austin” dealing with checking your stats and presence: webmaster tools, analytics, SERPS, Alexa and so on.
Building the website and publishing it is just the beginning. The web changes constantly, search engines keep indexing and re-indexing, new websites come online and ot [...]
Ten ways or so to good Web Design and...
This is a subsection of “Ten ways or so to good Web Design and SEO in Austin” dealing with registering with web directories.
Which ones? I register with the ones below.
Google local, Bing local, Yahoo local It’s ok if you don’t have a brick and mortar store, you can describe location as off-limits for customers.
Yelp, Superpages, [...]
Ten ways or so to good Web Design and...
This is a subsection of “Ten ways or so to good Web Design and SEO in Austin” dealing with making a mobile version.
Of course, web design today has to be tablet compatible. At this point a good size is 1024X768. Width is more important. Make sure it fits and unless you are a really good web designer stay away from auto-sizing web sites. Heigh [...]
Ten ways or so to good Web Design and...
This is a subsection of “Ten ways or so to good Web Design and SEO in Austin” dealing with make the other pages, the sitemap and register with Google, Bing and Yahoo (Yahoo now uses Bing webmaster tools).
What other pages? The ones the customer wants and of course the standard ones: contact, privacy policy, portfolio, testimonials, and so on. [...]