Exploring and understanding audience, encouraging communication, announcing excerpts and celebrating book releases. Just basically talking about websites... and the occasional cupcake.
I recently got an SOS email from a client who was swimming in spam. She calculated that she wasted at least ten minutes a day, if not more, weeding through the junk, some of it seriously offensive, just to find the legitimate mail.
“I’m really considering changing my email address, but how can I keep the [...]
Earlier this month, Misono and I attended WordCampSF 2010 at the Mission Bay Conference Center on May 1st. It was incredibly informative, with lots of information for upcoming features for WordPress 3.0! (Very exciting for us WP nerds.
First, What the Heck is WordCamp?
It’s an annual conference organized by our techie community in SF (though [...]
I recently got a query from a Wax client who wanted to know how to change her WordPress self-installation to only do a single-line-space each time she hits the Enter key. She would much rather do her double-spacing manually.
It’s a straight-forward challenge, with a not-quite-as-straightforward solution.
NOTE: if I get too technical for you in this [...]
Back when Google was just baby talk and Netscape (remember that?) was The Way to get around, web designers regularly embedded keywords into meta data. There were rules against keyword spamming, and consultants charged hefty fees for optimizing them. In the first edition of the book I co-wrote with Kelly Goto (©2001) we even offered [...]
If a site is giving you trouble, suspect your browser first. Just this morning we received this from a client trying to use the custom database web-app that we built for her:
I don’t think it’s my computer, because it only happens with the database – but when I try to check the info link on [...]
