I’ve added a list of interesting business blogs on the right column of the site.  Enjoy!

PayPal is a great way to enable visitors to your site to buy things online. The system is reliable, safe, inexpensive and simple to use. As I’ve covered in an earlier post PayPal acts as a shopping cart AND a credit card vendor. There is a minimal fee for each transaction but no monthly or [...]

Google PageRank (PR) is a way that Google devised to rank a website’s popularity. Google explains it this way: PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B [...]

So you’re thinking about getting a website.  That’s great!  Here are some questions that will help you in the planning process: 1 – What is the purpose of your website?  Some websites: sell things online provide contact information for your customers show examples of your work educate customers provide needed forms and information to customers [...]

Digg is a social bookmarking site. Members of the Digg community send in links to content (articles, blog posts, etc.) that they find interesting. Other Digg members take a look at the submissions and see what they think. If enough members “Digg” the content then it will move to the front page of Digg. Many, [...]

I’m on the mailing list for a local wine shop. The weekly newsletters are great. They alert me to shop specials and let me know about wine tastings. I signed up for the newsletter when the wine shop first opened. Things had been going along merrily for about a year and a half. Then it [...]

I’ve been helping a lot of people with their WordPress blogs lately. I suggest WordPress to everyone who wants to maintain their own website. The system is very user friendly. By customizing existing WordPress templates I’m able to provide customers with unique sites for a reasonable price. While WordPress is easy to use I have [...]

Things happen. Sometimes things happen that affect your e-mail. One of my clients had a web host that helpfully reset the spam settings on all their customer’s e-mail accounts. The web host didn’t mention that they’d done this. The result was that every e-mail sent via my customer’s contact form was rejected. He stopped getting [...]

One of the most prolific spammers was arrested here in the Seattle area this week. Robert Alan Soloway, 27, was charged with 35 counts of mail and wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, money laundering and fraud in connection with electronic mail. Mr. Soloway has quite a history: In 2005 Microsoft won a $7 million judgment [...]