10.24.07

Web 2.0 Site About California Fires

Posted in Web Design at 8:45 pm by john

My heart goes out to the good folks in California fighting the fires this week.   I heard about a great web site that popped up rather quickly this week to aid those that are affected by the fires.

Here is the site: http://www.calfires.com

Note that it has a great Google map mashup, feeds, and more.   This is a great way for municipalities to get information out using mapping.

I learned about the site from a government webmaster.  There are some good ideas about sharing, syndication, and more with this simple web site.

10.16.07

Web Site Mistakes That Cost You Money - DNS Problems

Posted in Articles, Domain Names, Local Delaware, Web Design at 10:19 pm by john

OK, this is a very basic, but powerful tip that will improve your web site’s performance. It is a problem that I see over and over and over again with web sites that prevents your customers from using your web site. It’s a problem that I have seen on very prominent web sites, and also very basic web sites. It is a very easy problem to fix, and yet many people don’t know that they have this issue.

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10.10.07

Quote from me on Adobe.com Dreamweaver Site

Posted in Delaware.Net, Adobe Dreamweaver at 2:48 pm by john

Cool! There is a quote from me on the Adobe.com Dreamweaver product home page.

Screenshot and link after the jump.

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10.09.07

Gave my second ePresentation on Adobe.com today

Posted in Delaware.Net, Web Development, Internet Industry, Site News, Presentations, Internet Marketing, Local Delaware, Web Developer Tools, Adobe Dreamweaver, Mail-Logic at 2:49 pm by john

Adobe invited me to give and advanced web design presentation live online, and it happened today at noon EST. There were over 1200 attendees. The presentation will be available on-demand on the Adobe web site in about a week. I demonstrated how Delaware.Net is using the latest Adobe Dreamweaver and ColdFusion tools to build Web 2.0 web sites.

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10.04.07

Should you run your entire business web site with blog software?

Posted in Web Development, Articles, Internet Industry, Internet Marketing, Search Engines and SEO, Web Developer Tools, Blogs at 10:35 am by john

Blogs are continuing to explode in popularity. In a recent post, I explained why you need a blog, and how to set one up. If you aren’t familiar with blog software and what it is for, then you should read that post first. I also explained some of the pitfalls and potential misuses of your blog in another post. With this article, I want to give a bigger picture for folks that need a web site quickly, and who are considering blog software to run their ENTIRE web site. There ARE cases where blog software can work as the main web site for a business under rare circumstances, and I will go over this as well.

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