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DPI/PPI doesn’t matter at all on the web

I often hear people talking about the proper dpi/ppi to use when creating images for websites.  Here is the simple answer: it doesn’t matter at…

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How building a WordPress-powered website is like building a house

A few weeks ago I was talking with a client and they were having a difficult time understanding how all of the pieces of their…

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Our YMCA has one of the worst good-looking sites ever made

We love our local YMCA.  Both of my girls play soccer there, we’ve done various swim lessons, and my wife and I work out there…

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How to make it all come together

Over the years, I’ve discussed a lot of ideas to help your business flourish online and today I’m going to show you what it looks…

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My favorite WordPress plug-ins

Three years ago I wrote up a list of my favorite plug-ins, and decided that it was well past time to give the list a…

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Firefox 4 released; much faster, some new features

While I’m still a big fan of Google Chrome, Firefox 4 came out today and has some nice improvements. The first is speed.  Chrome still…

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Thoughts on the Google Chrome OS laptop

As many of you know, Google has been giving away thousands of free laptops to help promote and troubleshoot their upcoming “Chrome OS” operating system….

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More clicks = better rankings in Google?

I was talking to @jasonbhuffman on Twitter about search engine optimization on his church site, and he told me this: I was informed that on…

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The basics of Google Analytics

Most of my clients use Google Analytics.  In fact, most people I meet online use Google Analytics.  However, many of them don’t know how to…

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Don’t be like a “University Website”

A few weeks back, the popular comic strip xkcd posted an image titled “University Website“.  It was simply a Venn diagram that showed the difference…

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Organize Your Digital Life 8 – Take advantage of the small breaks of time

This is the eighth in a series of posts in the Organize Your Digital Life series. I’m finding one of the keys to being productive…

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