This post may be a little off topic but this weekend I faced a problem that some of you may one day face.   I came face to face with something that stopped me cold.   I installed Microsoft Office 2007 and I had a horrible problem.  I couldn’t open the darned box! Luckily I found an [...]

One of the golden rules of website design is to always think about the website user. You want visitors to your site to have a good “user experience”. Sometimes even large companies loose sight of this concept. I had a horrible user experience at ABC’s Dancing With the Stars (DWTS) website recently. For those of [...]

Any day now WordPress version 2.5 will be released. The upgrades include: New dashboard design New navigation A new write screen You can get more details at the WordPress 2.5 Sneak Peek page.

Have you been thinking about having a blog, but aren’t sure it’s for you? Are you interested in learning more about website design and looking for a place to start? Do you want a blog but have a minuscule budget? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions visit WordPress.com and sign up for [...]

It’s Saint Patrick’s Day. What color green are you? You Are Olive Green You are the most real of all the green shades. You’re always true to yourself. For you, authenticity and honesty are very important… both in others and yourself. You are grounded and secure. It takes a lot to shake you. People see [...]

On an earlier post I explained the difference between flexible and fixed width website designs. “But how do you switch between the two?” was a question one reader asked. The differences between the two styles are huge. In order to make the change you need a new website design. The Problem – Appearance The two [...]

Website designs are either fixed width or flexible width. (Other terms for flexible width designs are relative, elastic or liquid designs.) We’ll talk about which design style is better later. For right now let’s take a look at each style. Fixed Width Designs Fixed width website designs have a constant width. No matter what size [...]

Right now I have 5 websites.   However I have plans for websites six and seven.  I don’t have the time to work on them right now but I do have the domain names registered.  That way I know that when I’m ready to work on the sites I’ll have the perfect domain name. What [...]

When I last wrote about Technorati I wondered if the blog search engine was on it’s way out. My biggest problem with it was that it was painfully slow to use. Click on any link in the site and you were in for a good long wait while the page loaded. It’s been almost six [...]