I hope you all have a great Labor Day!  I’ll be back posting on September 5.  If you have some spare time head on over to www.blogthings.com and take a personality quiz. Your Friendliness Score is 77 (Very Friendly) You are an amazing friend. Anyone who has you as a friend is incredibly lucky. And [...]

A few years ago my family wanted a family website.   I volunteered to help them find an online solution.  They wanted a place to chat with one another and post photos.  My concern was making sure that my family was safe from hackers and spammers.  And as always, everyone was concerned about the budget. I [...]

This is the second part of a response to an article on the Wall Street Journal entitled How to Create a Successful Web Site For Nothing (or Almost Nothing). You can see part one of my response here. In part one I analyzed points one through three of the article. Today I’m going to take [...]

A week ago The Wall Street Journal posted an article that bothers me a great deal. The title of the article is How to Create a Successful Web Site For Nothing (or Almost Nothing). The article starts out: Have you got eight hours and $10? Then you can build a Web site for your business. [...]

Pioneer Woman (author, photographer and publisher of one of the top blogs around) asked her readers what their life was like compared to what they planned ten or twenty years ago. The answers that she received are amazing. This is what I love about the Internet. The web isn’t about technology. It’s about people.

WordPress has revamped their theme directory. It’s now MUCH easier to look for themes. The only bad part is that once I start looking at themes it’s hard to stop! My advice is to only visit the theme directory when you’ve got time to spare.

Earlier this year I wrote about the dispute between Olympic Cellars and the United States Olympic Committee. Basically someone wrote some bad legislation that gives the USOC almost exclusive rights to use the term “Olympic”. This is very troubling to businesses like Olympic Cellars that are physically located in the Olympic Peninsula. The USOC took [...]