tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88574494180302263852011-11-27T17:56:11.056-07:00Get your business where it's going on the web.jmrnoreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857449418030226385.post-83158311417692805402010-07-27T20:10:00.003-07:002010-07-27T20:18:04.886-07:00

A website requires multiple items to work together seamlessly and in conjunction in order to keep the site functioning as expected. It's not unlike buying a house. Part of the process is below: * The Deed * The Map * The Address * The Lock * Curbside AppealThe DeedRegistering a domain name is like purchasing the deed to a house. It declares to the world that this piece of property,

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Simply building a website generally is not sufficient to drive traffic to it or generate business from it. Building a website and building a loyal following or a customer base are different things entirely. Your site, at the construction phase, should use standard procedures of good content, keywords and meta tags as part of the original build, or revamping of the site. There are other techniques

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"If you build it, they will come" is the famous catch phrase, the whole crux of the movie "Field of Dreams". Many years ago, the same could be said of websites. This is no longer true; not only will they not come, only your closest family and friends will ever be able to find you amongst all the other dot coms or dot nets. Content Is King Keywords Local Visibilityread more …»

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My current vocation is that of tech support manager for an ISP. As such, I spend a good portion of my days retrieving or resetting passwords for customers for their email, for FTP access to their websites, for admin access to their hosting control panel…Frequently, the responses for desired passwords are astounding. "How about '12345'", I'm asked. Or "just set it to password for now, and I'll

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-- Michael RaymondHow much space do you need for your website?As a rough calculation a novel of 150,000 words, at an average of 6 letters per word will equal about a megabyte of space. In other words, unless the text on your site is as prolific as Isaac Asimov or William Shakespeare, you will probably never need more than 1Gb of storage for just text.Obviously though, websites today, especially

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-- Michael RaymondOnce upon a time in a land called "Internet", there were few inhabitants and only a handful of places for those few inhabitants to visit. In this strange and mysterious land, most information was shared in a relatively new language called HTML.Whole libraries of information, called websites, were delivered to your computer faster than any of the big three delivery guys can

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-- Michael RaymondOne of the hats I wear is tech support for an ISP. I normally telecommute for them on Friday until late afternoon and someone else minds the store the rest of the weekend.This weekend, the boss is out of town and I am on call for emergencies. As you all know, Mr. Murphy—he of the "anything that can go wrong, will..." fame—never takes a vacation.Sure enough, I get a page on my

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-- Michael RaymondMozilla Firefox is a web browser for all occasions. You can configure it to work in the manner that is most convenient for you.Favorite FireFox Extensions to make FireFox more convenient:ScribeFirePasteNGoBookmark AllFEBE along with CLEOAll-in-One SidebarLink PadAnd if you use it to work from the development side:FireShotColorZillaMeasureItCopy Link TextTotal ValidatorMore

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-- Michael RaymondYou've decided it's time to upgrade or update your website, so you spend 3 or 4 days calling around to all the local web design firms you can find. The first guy or gal gives you a price with 5 numbers to the left of the decimal point. If you paid only a few hundred dollars for your website the last time you had it done, that new, hefty price tag is probably enough to make you

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-- Michael RaymondHow secure are your passwords? You do use more than one don't you? By the way, "12345" and p@ssw0rd are not passwords. They are invitations to have whatever you're using them on compromised. Email, FTP access to your site, your bank records.The more frequently a password is used, the less secure it becomes. More so if that same password is used to guard multiple access points.

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— Michael RaymondIf you are a small business owner, chances are you have a website that you paid several thousand dollars or more to have built. You followed your webdesigner's advice about how it should look and how it should function. They are, or were, the expert in that field, after all, and you, as a small business owner had far too many other matters of importance requiring your attention;

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— Michael RaymondWebsite software has a short shelf life. Because of this, your website can stop working overnight for no apparent reason.First and foremost, the software that runs the web server where your site is hosted is continuously being updated. At least it should be.Server software updates are designed to protect your site, your business and customer data, and the network of your hosting

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