I’ve recently had a discussion with a Mac Head lamenting the decline of the Mac as a web development platform. I suppose that much of the change in the web server attitudes came about when Apple switched to OS X. With its UNIX underpinnings, OS X is manageable by any ‘nix trained administrator.
And that […]
A story just released by the [Inquirer](http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32538) shows that 80% of incoming search requests from Microsoft’s domain arrived via Google’s search engine. In contrast, 64% of Yahoo! staff and 100% of Google staff use their own company’s search engine. How’s that for a product endorsement? I’d guess that Microsoft may soon add google.com to the […]
Computers crash. No news there. But what happens if the computer on which your website lives crashes? Do you have backups of your site? How current are those backups?
For years I got my clients hosted with one company. The owner, Tina Peters, had a small cult following in the web design world because of her […]
John Gruber and Mark Pilgrim have been carrying out one of the more thoughtful and well written discussions I’ve seen about the relative merits of the Mac OS and Open Source, specifically Ubuntu Linux. Mark, who is a real Mac expert has finally gotten fed up with dealing with a proprietary operating system and some […]
Evaluating a web hosting service is a scary business. I haven’t found a reliable way to pre-judge the quality of a host. There are so called ranking services, but according to a post on the Dreamhost weblog many or most of those “unbiased” services actually sell their rankings.
If you have a good web designer, […]
It appears that broadband internet users are starting to differentiate between cable and DSL service. A larger percentage of middle and lower income households opt for the lower priced DSL service while those with an income over $75 K/year tend towards cable, which is perceived as being faster and higher in quality. This is according […]
I usually don’t tell my clients that I design on a Mac. Too many don’t know that a web page should be platform agnostic. Oh, there will generally be a tweak or two in the style sheet to pander to any of a host of Internet Explorer CSS shortcomings. But anybody who attempts to build […]
