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 of [...]

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.

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

One reason that people offer for buying anti-virus (AV) software for Macs is that we should take pity on our Windows brethren and not pass Windows viruses on through our email. There are a couple of problems with this idea. First, I’ll admit that I also run a Windows computer and can categorically state that [...]

Writers who use long words needlessly and choose complicated font styles are seen as less intelligent than those who stick with basic vocabulary and plain text, according to new research from the Princeton University in New Jersey, to be published in the next edition of Applied Cognitive Psychology. Read more at Science Daily