Archive for June, 2008


How to Use .htaccess to Redirect a Wordpress Site

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Usually, it is fairly straightforward to use a .htaccess file to redirect an old website to a new one. Yet for some reason, I was having the hardest time getting this to work for my wife’s old blog. There was a link that came up when you Googled her name, and I was using that [...]


Review of An Event Apart, Boston 2008

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Last Friday, I was browsing Twitter when I came across someone who mentioned how excited they were to be going to An Event Apart in a few days. An Event Apart? As in, A List Apart, the most treasured of all sites on web design?
Turns out they not only had a seminar, but it [...]


Google Doesn’t Like Your Flash Intro Either

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

I had a client once that insisted on having a splash page on their site. So when visiting the site, you were greeted by the company’s name and logo, and that was it. You would have to click, again, before entering the site. I expressed as best I could the reasons not to do this, [...]


TodaysBigThing and Alltop: A Case of Extremes

Friday, June 6th, 2008

One of the reasons I love the internet is that when you consider the fact that it is limitless (well, that is, unless you take into account the dwindling number of IPv4 addresses), there is a whole lot of room for all types of ideas – even if those ideas take completely different approaches towards [...]


Has Social Marketing Truly Reached Big Business?

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Great post this Monday by Jennifer Laycock entitled How Social Media (Didn’t) Change Business. At first I thought it might be a rant (albeit a well-deserved rant) about how many businesses have failed miserably at monetizing social media. Instead it was a very well thought out piece that explained how social media wasn’t a new [...]