Google just announced Google Checkout. At first glance it looks like a direct PayPal competitor. Fees seem close. PayPay charges 1.9% and $.30 per transaction. Google Checkout charges 2.0% and $.20 per transaction. There’s no sign up cost. They are close, that is unless you use AdWords to advertise your products.

I’ve found over the years that my fastest overall solution when offering initial design comps for a new website is to give the client two. I try to make them noticeably different so the client feels that there is a clear choice. But it’s a two option choice.

Other than choosing font size and face, typography is often forgotten in web design . But use good typographic principles and you will make your site better. People won’t know why because much of good typography is subliminal. It will just look better and be more readable.
While a deep understanding of typography requires lots of […]

I don’t know if this has any value beyond tickling my fancy for things map related. I just added the location for Mac The Web to GeoURL.

GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location. Find your neighbor’s blog, perhaps, or the web page […]

Ever since I got a copy of Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss, I’ve been attempting to clean up my grammar. As so often happens when one attempt to learn something, I’m extra sensitive to noticing punctuation errors by others. Hopefully, I will someday be as observant […]

Steven Hilton has a fun map that shows the Empire of Microsoft against the world. It’s laid out like a military campaign.

I got involved in a conversation today at work with a client whose boss moved their products from one central website to individual websites for each line. Now they wonder why their previously excellent Google rankings - they were in the top 10-20 in a number of important categories- are now in the toilet.