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WordPress Security Best Practices 5 Mar 2012 | 07:44 am
A long overdue follow up to my immensely popular almost perfect WordPress htaccess file article. This article of best practices should give you several more tricks up your sleeve to keep your WordPre...
And the love kickstarts again 6 Feb 2012 | 08:47 am
A couple weekends ago I decided this blog … my blog and official home on the web needed a redesign, rebuild and re…. well everything. Not wanting to get bogged down in the details of design, I instal...
19 Things A Business Owner Can Do to Torpedo Their Website Project 8 Sep 2010 | 08:21 am
In my 10 years of professional website design and development experience I have seen and heard it all when it comes to client and business owner web project dysfunction. This is not to say I don’t lov...
I’m Stuck – Random Design Idea Generator 24 Aug 2010 | 02:23 pm
I fashion myself a bit of a web designer, and sometimes after slaving away on a client’s web design proof for hours, I run into a wall of uncreative energy or as I call it “shit out of ideas”. I hav...
Ebay User Experience Fail 7 Mar 2010 | 07:52 am
So I recently purchased a classic Xbox game (which ended up sucking, more on that later) on Ebay and while the transaction went perfectly smooth, I noticed a small glitch in their post-purchase ‘leave...
11 Ways to Piss Off Your Tweeps 17 Sep 2009 | 07:03 am
I follow a few hundred local Cape Codders on Twitter to give me a sense of what is happening in my geographical region (something I can’t get via the web/newspaper). By and large most of the Twitter s...
Protect WordPress wp-admin Directory with htaccess 8 Sep 2009 | 07:54 am
With all the recent WordPress security (or lack therof) news I was reminded of an SEO video talk I recently watched put on at WordCamp 2009 in San Fransisco by the one and only (SEO-God Spokesman) Mat...
How Free is that Free Stock Photo? 27 Aug 2009 | 08:09 am
Free stock photography websites are very popular these days, and there are literally hundreds if not thousands to choose from. Besides selection, quality, and featureset the one factor that is critica...
Email is My Least Desired Response 21 Aug 2009 | 12:09 pm
When I talk about websites with my local clients, the discussion often turns to “most desired response” or MDR. I ask how they’d like to be contacted by a site visitor which usually involves two optio...
6 Tools to Keep your Twitter List Tidy 23 Apr 2009 | 02:23 pm
Remove Your Deadbeat Friends: Twitoria helps you find people on your follow list that haven’t tweeted in a set period of time (when it works). This is great for users who follow lots of people, as the...
