Archive for October, 2007

Web 2.0 Site About California Fires

October 24th, 2007

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.

Web Site Mistakes That Cost You Money – DNS Problems

October 16th, 2007

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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Quote from me on Adobe.com Dreamweaver Site

October 10th, 2007

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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Gave my second ePresentation on Adobe.com today

October 9th, 2007

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

October 4th, 2007

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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