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Is Your Site Design "Working"?
By Gary Klingsheim · 12 years ago
Artists are different. This has been true since cavemen began doodling on cave walls. Today it is a cliché to call artists eccentric or odd, and it bears repeating that there's a bell curve to ...
The Basics of Managed Website Hosting
By Gary Klingsheim · 13 years ago
There are many different options available today for web hosting. For the newcomer in the industry, the technical terms can be quite confusing. Managed hosting plans and dedicated servers are just a few of these ...
Moving Toward Ecommerce Site Design
By Gary Klingsheim · 13 years ago
Ecommerce has been a major player in the retail market place for more than a decade now. Initially invented in 1979 by Michael Aldridge, a British entrepreneur, the trend only exploded with the widespread popularity ...
The Basics of Using Social Networks to Promote Your Site
By Gary Klingsheim · 13 years ago
Social networking and social media are some of the biggest buzzwords in the internet industry today. No web designer or website owner can ignore the importance of social media or underestimate its value to a ...
An App or a .Mobi site? Which is Better for your Company?
By Gary Klingsheim · 13 years ago
Mobile apps are almost as important as mobile sites these days, and if you have to choose between the two, you may have a bit of a rough time deciding which direction will best support ...
The Basics of e-Commerce
By Gary Klingsheim · 13 years ago
The term "e-commerce" refers to any business that buys and sells products or services online. Typically, a website will have a database of products or services and features where customers can browse through and select ...
Back to Basics: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Every Business
By Gary Klingsheim · 13 years ago
At its most basic, the idea behind Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is to put great content on a Web site whose great programming and strategies will attract interested parties and links. There is a huge ...
A Primer on Search Engine Optimization
By Gary Klingsheim · 13 years ago
The most important thing to remember about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is that search engines are not human beings. If you project your usual thinking into this process you will never get on track with ...
Is Mobile Web the Final Frontier?
By Gary Klingsheim · 13 years ago
Let’s cut to the chase and answer the question up front: No, it’s not.
Now let's take a look at that. It would be accurate to say that the mobile Web is the latest final ...
The Future of Content Management Systems
By Gary Klingsheim · 13 years ago
Running any online business, or any business with an online presence that is important, is generally directed toward communicating the correct message to the appropriate people. Content is king, they say, and they are right. ...
Behind the Apple-Adobe Flash Battles
By Gary Klingsheim · 13 years ago
Apple’s decision to leave Flash support conspicuously absent from its newly-named iOS, the operating system for its insanely popular iPhone and iPad, has created a strange situation. Adobe, owner of Flash, sells a lot of ...
Mobile Application Development
By Gary Klingsheim · 13 years ago
No, Sorry, There’s Not an App for that Yet
Accessing your favorite sites from your smart phone or other web-enabled mobile device is more popular than ever. Statistics suggest smart phones will be nearly 1/3 ...
Does the Macintosh Have a Split Personality?
By Gary Klingsheim · 13 years ago
Does the Macintosh Have a Split Personality?
In the early days of personal computers, the Macintosh with its revolutionary point-and-click, desktop metaphor and Graphical User Interface (GUI) was marketed as the easy-to-use alternative to the ...
An Introduction to Web 3.0
By Gary Klingsheim · 13 years ago
An Introduction to Web 3.0
People are still trying to make the most of the new-and-improved features that came out in Web 2.0, and here we are all talking about Web 3.0 and even newer ...
Defining Android
By Gary Klingsheim · 14 years ago
Defining Android
Before you can really begin to develop Android applications, it's helpful to have a basic understanding of what exactly Android is. In the simplest terms, Android is a set of software that works ...
A Quick Guide to Developing an iPhone Application
By Gary Klingsheim · 14 years ago
Xcode is Apple's integrated development environment (IDE) and is used for the development of iPhone applications. By providing all the tools you will need to design and write the code for your application, Xcode makes ...
Internet Black Holes
By Gary Klingsheim · 14 years ago
Human rights groups around the world continue to report on governments that control and monitor their citizens' access to the Internet. Although people are very creative and continue to work around these "information blockades," the ...
What Is AJAX?
By Gary Klingsheim · 14 years ago
There have been quite a few complaints about the name "Ajax" being applied to a Web tool, not the least of which point out that many people grew up with bathroom cleanser with the same ...
Setting Up a WordPress Web Site
By Gary Klingsheim · 14 years ago
Although it is commonly viewed as a "mere" blogging program, the wildly popular WordPress (WP) application is starting to show up as the foundation for mainstream Web sites. Proponents of this use say it is ...
Top AJAX Gadgets
By Gary Klingsheim · 14 years ago
There is something of a "Wild West" atmosphere in high technology, and it is nowhere more apparent than in the constantly churning world of programming and programmers. With a tool like AJAX - shorthand for ...