Do you have a great idea for a domain name but aren’t quite ready to launch a new site yet? Then head on over to HostMySite.com to take advantage of their domain name sale. (The domain name sale it at the bottom of the page.) Through the end of the month you can register a [...]

Do you know what a doppelganger is? The term shows up a lot in horror and science fiction TV shows. On Stargate SG-1 Samantha Carter’s doppelganger is the evil Replicator Samantha. On Star Trek: The Next Generation Data had an evil twin brother named Lore. You get the idea. A googleganger is someone with your [...]

On a recent episode of NBC’s The Office the folks at Dunder Mifflin got a new website. It was a controversial move as some of the staff felt that there was no way a website could express friendliness or warmth. What would I have advised Dunder Mifflin?  I would have told them to keep in [...]

A company recently came to me for search engine optimization advice. I took a look at the site and knew they had a serious problem. The site looked great. It was professional. It was beautiful. It had a nice layout. It had no text at all. Search engines look at a lot of things when [...]

When I help customers set up a website I always have them register the domain name themselves. “This is your website,” I explain. “If I win the lotto and move to an estate in England I want you to have access to your domain name.” It looks as though the Wall Street Journal agrees with [...]

WordPress blogs come with an area known as a blogroll. A blogroll is just hi-tech lingo for a list of links. WordPress comes with sample links installed. You’ll probably want to take those out and put in a list of links of your own. You do that by logging into your dashboard. On newer WordPress [...]