Secure certificates, also known as SSL, are a strange thing to buy. Prices range from thousands of dollars to $20. What’s the difference between them that would account for this massive price range? Insurance. Expensive SSLs will cover much larger fraud claims than the cheap ones. But if you want a better price on SSLs [...]
This promotional tip is dedicated to Andrew Wee for popping my MBL cherry.
If you’d like to pull in some Google traffic, this tip is for you. Google bait is a post that a blogger intentionally writes to pull in Google traffic. The basic idea is that certain topics have a high volume of interest and [...]
I’ve installed ZenPhoto a couple of times and both times I had broken images. At first I thought it might have been the permission settings for the “/albums” or “/cache” were not set to 777. That wasn’t it. Then I did a Google search, and the ZenPhoto forum popped up with suggestions that my .htaccess [...]
I started this blog in September of 2006 in the fashion I recommend to my clients, which is to grow a blog, not build one. I had a lot of ideas about how I wanted it to look and how to structure the content, but I also wanted to wait and see what content I [...]
On his blog Influential Interactive Marketing, Rohit identified the Top 7 Marketing Trends for 2006. His list includes:
Sharing a Corporate Personality
Widget Marketing
Social Media Optimization
AutoTagging and AutoSorting
Human Filtered Search
Contentcasting
Online Identity Shifting
In the spirit of things, I wanted to offer one more trend of 2006.
Viral Buttons. These include all of the little buttons and badges [...]
So, the other day I was having trouble eliminating gaps between an image and the top of an unordered list. I was trying to make a box with rounded corners to look like a giftcard. No matter what I tried, there was a 2 pixel space between the top and bottom graphics and the list. [...]
I know Tom is hard at work on the new server and admin, but I don’t know if I can wait any longer! I want my Gravatar! Whaaaa!!11
Yeah, so I stole my headline from ma.gnolia. Ma.gnolia is a social bookmarking service developed by Zeldman and crew. They are one of about one hundred such services including del.icio.us, reddit, furl, and many more. All of these social bookmarking services offer the ability to save bookmarks to their database and they differ significantly from [...]
So you think you’ve got what it takes to play with the big boys, eh? But, you’re not sure how to make it big? Well, this post is for you. Just follow these simple steps and it will be you telling people you can’t take projects until sometime late next year.
Learn from the masters
It seems [...]
I was just trying to set up my WordPress feed through FeedBurner and I discovered two interesting issues:
If you activate the gzip option, your feed won’t validate on FeedBurner. It will say there was an error on line 2. I didn’t spend any time figuring out if there was a way to make the gzip [...]
Metafluence is my blog that focuses on graphic and web design, Internet strategy, web development business practices, and industry points of interest. I continue loading the admin of my Wordpress blog day in and day out because I like connecting with people. It also gives me warm fuzzies to post on here because I know I learned about web development by reading other people's blogs. If you read something on here that you like, feel free to leave me a comment, ask me a question, and/or introduce yourself. If you need some help formulating a strategy for your website or defining a project before hiring professional web development company, I am available for strategic Internet consulting.
