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About john

I am the President of Delaware.Net, Inc. (www.delaware.net), a web development and hosting company located in Dover, Delaware. I have also ridden motorcycles my entire adult life, and I am still an avid rider. I teach MSF riding courses and I also teach the Harley Davidson Riders Edge program. My company builds high performance websites for municipalities, and organizations from across North America.

Yet another WordPress Vulnerability

There are many alternatives to WordPress. I obviously still current use WordPress for this blog, but our upcoming CMS platform built on DJango will change that. I will migrate my personal blog away from WordPress to our own open-source CMS … Continue reading

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“IT Truths” Articles Coming

My recent article about how to “hack your local chamber of commerce” got some great feedback. I shared a lot of lessons in that article, and that has motivated me to share more articles to help organizations get more out … Continue reading

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Tweetdeck for Twitter – Finally Upgraded

I like Twitter, and I hate Twitter at the same time. It can be a source of useful information for research and news, and at the same time it can be a time sink full of  white noise from egomaniac … Continue reading

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It is time to fire your phone system vendor – like now

We just got our new phone system up. It was painless. It is wonderful. For $99 a month we get up to 15 employee phone lines. And the sound quality is crystal clear. This is VERY bad news for the … Continue reading

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10 Ways to Hack Your Chamber of Commerce for Results

In this article, I will explain how you can save your business time, money, and frustration in dealing with your local chambers of commerce so that you get the most out of what they have to offer, while limiting your … Continue reading

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New Brand for Government Website Design – EvoGov

As you can see in the header of my blog, we are finally launching our new brand for government website design. After over a year of planning, brainstorming names, and getting our strategy in order, we are finally rolling it … Continue reading

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Better Maps for Municipal Websites

We recently upgraded the mapping system in our municipal content management system. We were talking to a municipality, and they asked us if it would be possible to create a Google maps that had selectable “layers” where you could show … Continue reading

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Domain Name Renewals – The silent killer of your Google results

Payday loans Fact: If your domain name is within a year of expiring, this can impact your search engine results, making your website appear lower in search results.  Why does this happen? Because a domain name that looks as those … Continue reading

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Been hard at work at Delaware.Net

Its has been a while since I posted to my blog, and I will get back to it here because there is a lot to talk about. New products, new branding, and new strategies for our 16 year old company. … Continue reading

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Google blocking referring URLs with SSL

Viagra This is bad news for SEO and analytics, as it will be impossible to see what words your visitors searched on in Google when they leave Google results and come to your website. Google is doing this to “protect … Continue reading

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