Well after finding out that someone was using my copyrighted material on their website this topic is timely. And yes, my web site is copyrighted and a copyright is filed. So don’t take my content because I can be awarded monetary damages. If I didn’t have the copyright filed I couldn’t.
What is a no-no.
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A fellow developer forwarded this and I have to agree with her. It is a great use of Flash and video, and is the online 2006 portfolio of illustrator/creative Dave Werner.
And no you do not want an all Flash web site for a business, unless you’re an illustrator or creative. And if you have lots of updates….well thank you for all that money.
I know that many do not believe that clean code is all that important. I do though. An example is a shopping cart that I had to fix last week. It was written by an off-shore firm (and there’s nothing wrong with that in and of itself). The problem was that the top include file (a server side include) had so much junk in it that the cart would not work in Firefox at all. As soon as the junk was cleaned out and…
There are individuals out there that find hacking your site or anyone else’s web site and placing information that you site has been hacked up. They feel it’s a challenge. A game.
Most web hosts provide routine scanning for exploits, but sometimes the hacker can get into your site because your personal PC or Mac has no anti-virus software, spyware or a firewall. You also need to continually update your anti-virus definitions and run spyware. You may have unwittingly downloaded a trojan or a…
It is your responsibility to verify that you have received payment for an order and not to ship until then. It’s called managing your business effectively.
It is your responsibility to contact the vendors that process payments including your bank. Those institutions will not talk with anyone but you. If you expect others to do this for you then you are opening your business to major problems. Not keeping track of your finances opens yourself up to fraud. You know those stories about bookkeepers,…
More and more ISP’s are starting to blacklist various IPs and email addresses. I am all for eliminating spam but not at the expense of legitimate businesses. Three well known ISPs that are doing this are AOL, Comcast and Earthlink. So if you use an email address for your business that is @aol.com, @comcast.com or @comcast.net, and finally @earthlink.net you may very well not receive email from clients.
Eathlink will often send someone an email stating that this person only accepts email from approved…
Flash is a very useful tool and when used correctly enhances a web site. Unfortunately there are some that believe, incorrectly I might add, that their entire site should be Flash. Or maybe their web developer (groan) thought they could…well make a lot of money off of a client that is uneducated. Flash sites should “do” something interesting and not act as a “static” site.
Flash drawbacks:
You have to sit and wait for it to download.
It’s lousy for search engine optimization
You…
Okay, you’ve seen those sites that proudly announce we had “800,000″ hits this year. Well I wonder how many of those were just page hits?
Each single web page is a hit, each image on that page is a hit, each JavaScript is a hit, and any file that is retrieved from the web server is a hit. So it is conceivable that a single web page could have 50 hits so the actual number of page hits for the site is 16,000. A huge difference!
Oh, those visible counters are so outdated, and they do not provide you with any useful information.
What you need to know is where is the visitor is coming from, is it their first time at your site, how long did they stay, what keywords were used to find your site, and other valuable information.
A good web site host will have a decent set of stats available for your site. I do know of an excellent counter that provides extremely useful stats. If…
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