For those of you playing around with Flickr - here's a fun little easter egg for ya. On your photos, add a ho ho ho hat or ho ho ho beard note to see the wackiest easter egg feature ever.... Continue Reading Flickr Easter Egg »
Everyone's been talking about Podcasting and Vi/Vodasting so much (especially with Google's recent $1.6 billion purchase of YouTube) that I think a lot of people are forgetting about other emerging communication mediums and how to start using them in... Continue Reading What about Texting »
I never thought I would be telling someone about a splash page but here I am... telling you about one. I took a snapshot of this, not because it looks good (it's terrible), but the concept is possibly good (something... Continue Reading SEM Splash pages »
The giant phone and cable companies are trying to take control of the Internet away from the public and convert it into their own private, corporate network. Consumers. If you are a consumer – a Mom looking for healthcare information... Continue Reading It's Our Net »
About 2 year ago I began to get really excited about tagging and what you could do with it. Tags were amazing, they were like a new toy that I couldn't get enough of. I would tag my photos, tags... Continue Reading Tagging Sucks »
I really don't know where to start as I'm quite shocked at how I have just been treated. We decided to go with a company called CyberSource to be our merchant account provider (allow us to take credit cards online).... Continue Reading CyberSource Sucks »
At work, we all browse the web quite a bit. When we find something really cool and think others should take a look at it, we put together an email with a long list of things we've found that... Continue Reading Weekend Links »
This is an email that was sent to me and a few people from Jon Pott - I'm totally ripping off his email and putting it on my website because it has some great stuff in it. I hope... Continue Reading Nummy nuggets of web-based love »
This is an email I sent out to a group at work after a discussion on some new ventures. I thought I would share the email. Hey guys, I'm going to try and start sending information like this to... Continue Reading Wikipedia corrects Encyclopedia Britannica »
Curious on what Google looks at when trying to rank a website? 25% - Link Popularity 25% - Title 10% - URL & File Name 10% - Heading Text 25% - Body Content 05% - Images... Continue Reading Google Algorithm: Estimated Importance Levels »
I have no idea what's going on but at 12:30pm (EST), I tried doing a google search in my Safari toolbar and I got a page not found. Not being sure of what happened - I decided to type... Continue Reading Has Google Left? »
I'll be speaking next week on the topic of accessibility and would love to get together for coffee with anyone in the area to chat about this subject. If you know or are interested in learning about web accessibility, leave... Continue Reading Talk about Accessibility »
Almost a year ago when Jodi and I moved into our house on Ardmore St. the first thing I did was order broadband internet. I even made the call before taking care of garbage pickup and switching over our... Continue Reading Comcast Sucks - Bandwidth Testing »
Section 508 isn't something many people run out to learn and more than likely, most of you haven't a clue what the law is about and who it's for. As for myself - I've been working with it for... Continue Reading Understanding Section 508 »
A little over a year ago a friend of mine emailed me, along with a few other friends, somewhat freaked out after realizing the amount of information someone could find out about him - online. Orwellian rants came out as... Continue Reading Peekaboo »
When I was first introduced to del.icio.us I didn't take a good look at it. In fact, I didn't get why people liked using it so much. So much in fact that it became somewhat of a following by... Continue Reading Hungry? Try something del.icio.us »
Things in the web community have been getting rather exciting over the past few weeks. People are coming up with new ideas and leaps are being made forward in the areas of usability and accessibility. The first thing that is... Continue Reading An exciting start to 2005 »
While at the not so long ago Gospelcom conference, someone eluded to an internal debate going on within Gospelcom on whether or not they should use an Orange XML/RSS button. This post isn't to answer that question but to... Continue Reading Orange XML button & why use it? »
For the first part of the event we've been talking about what our favorite Firefox feature is. We'll keep things updated as the night goes along. Aaron Schaap said - Developer Extention Paul Hart said - Web Developer Kit... Continue Reading Firefox 1.0 Party »
If you've used email at all within the past 2 months or more, you know pretty well what SPAM is. It's an annoying thing but with all types of email filters out there - we don't get nearly as... Continue Reading Comment SPAM »
There is good news for consumers! Because of recent policy clarifications by the Federal Communications Commission, SBC has accelerated its schedule to deploy over 38,000 mile of fiber optics cable in its 13 state region. This will bring fiber closer... Continue Reading Project Light Speed »
Paul Hart and I will be throwing a Mozilla Firefox 1.0 release party in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The party starts at 8:00pm Friday, November 19 at a local pub (TBA) in Grand Rapids. The Elevator Up g33ks group and some... Continue Reading Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Release Party »
Just a quick note - I currently have about six gmail accounts and was wondering if anyone wanted one. If this is something you've been trying to get or are simply curious on what gmail is all about, please post... Continue Reading Gmail Invitations »
Learn how this technology can serve your organization. Continue Reading Voice Over IP »
Make those pesky search engine spiders work for you. Continue Reading Search Engine Strategy »
A quick note: Right now I'm in Chicago in the Gospelcom 2004 Conference. Paul Hart and I are here for Thursday, Friday and Saturday to attend and teach a few workshops. I'm going to try to blog while the conference... Continue Reading Gospelcom 2004 Conference »
Just a quick reminder for myself to read over these later this week. Absolutely relative Ten CSS tricks - corrected and improved Mastery, Mystery, and Misery: The Ideologies of Web Design Universal Accessibility Mambo CMS Open Source CMS recommendations... Continue Reading Link Dump »
It's one of those things that someone creates and you just say to yourself - "That's so stink'in simple but so stink'in awesome - Why hasn't this been done before?" DropCash is a new site that has recently been... Continue Reading Baby Diaper Fund »
Thanks to IE's security holes, someone can install a bug on your system that furishes them with your banking passwords. And IE is still the most popular web browser on earth. This is totally and completely insane. To be... Continue Reading Don't use Internet Explorer »
I've just started to heavily research the issue of SPAM due to the recent get togethers started up by Elevator Up L.L.C. a couple months ago. This week we're going to dive into the issue of SPAM filtering with hopes... Continue Reading SPAM Research »
SVN creators, Sorry if this is the wrong place to bring up this issue but it's been bugging me for months. Your RSS feed only shows a couple lines out of each post on your website - but I... Continue Reading Open Letter to SVN »
The other day I received an email that Google, the search engine we all know and love, is going to be offering free email by the name of Gmail. In fact, it's going to be offering 1,000MB (1GB) of... Continue Reading Gmail: Google to offer Email »
Now that it's Spring here in Holland, Michigan I decided to fresh'in up around here at the Paragon. First things first is - I came up with a new design. Some of you may like it, some of you... Continue Reading Everything is New »
We've seen a lot of Print to Web (very familiar to newspapers) but the idea of going from Web to Print is something I personally haven't seen all that much of. Andy Arikawa from www.modulo26.net has just put together a... Continue Reading Web to Print »
Holland, Michigan is a great city to live in and offers something for almost everyone. For those that are into hiking we have various trails and for those that love the beachside we have some amazing fresh water beaches. Even... Continue Reading Holland WIFI »
Over the past couple of months I've had quite of bit of people asking me how to write some basic HTML tags. Some needed to know for classes they're taking, some wanted to know because ebay allowed some HTML, and... Continue Reading HTML Cheat Sheet »
A couple of months ago we got a call from a company called - J Carter Marketing. They called us, at the Sentinel, because they've (supposedly) noticed our creditable website and high page views. The deal they offered was something... Continue Reading Advertising Headaches »
If you haven't already heard by now from the millions of voices on the web - AOL decided to kill Netscape. According to Mozillazine: "AOL has cut or will cut the remaining team working on Mozilla in a mass... Continue Reading AOL Kills Netscape »
America Online has agreed to drop its suit against Microsoft in return for $750 million and the privilege of keeping IE as the default AOL browser. For face value that seems to be fine with all of us and is... Continue Reading AOL's Problems became Ours »
The other day I got an email from the owner of Sitecubed.com asking if they could reprint my recent article written on evolt.org. Later that day I sent them my approval along with my bio. A day or so down... Continue Reading New Author on DevArticles.com »
Working with the Internet as much as I do you'd assume that I've tried almost every Internet site out there. Well, at least all the major ones, right? Actually no. There's quite a bit going on out there on the... Continue Reading Classmates.com »
Around the time Google announced their purchase of Pyra Labs (indirectly buying Blogger.com) another company came out called Audblog. Their concept is to offer people voice posts on their weblogs via phone and everyday users can listen to their posts... Continue Reading Voice Over Web »
