In 85 days from the time he first spoke to us, Frank Moretti received his first inquiry from a visitor that found his Landscape businesses website in a search. Mr. Moretti was a rather typical client, interested in getting a website online to begin taking advantage of the opportunity of being found in search engines.

Here's a foolproof tip on how to take years off your "look"- and it is so simple. It doesn't cost a thing. There are no dangerous side effects. No recovery time. No pills or creams. Here it is...

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STOP adding two spaces after each sentence when you type! You are not only adding an unnecessary keystroke, you are dating yourself by about 35 years.

I love to see new technology and innovation involving alternative, naturally occuring sources of energy. not only for the obvious conservation aspects but also for the sheer ingenuity of it. I just received this message from our host server company and would like to share it.

I recently read on several SEO "Experts" websites that they intend to submit their client’s websites to "hundreds" of search engines. Some say 200, some say 400. So I ask the question, does anyone know more than three or four search engines? Probably not, so what is the sense of continuing the practice of submitting to hundreds of search engines? Please let me know, I don't have an answer.

I've had it. Three full years for some of you folks out there and you still have not upgraded your web browser. So bye, bye IE6— you are officially in the dust and off our radar. Good riddance. IE7 was launched in October 1996.

You have paid your SEO "Expert" to optimize your site and it has been 30 days without any results. Ok, it's not an exact science, there's some factors beyond their control. 60 days out, and you have not seen any real results. You get some explanation- it may make sense, and it may sound like b.s. You begin to wonder. 90 days and no significant changes? Run. Cut your losses and find a reputable provider of search engine optimization.  

When I started my design company in 2001, being virtually unknown, I wondered about where I would find clients. Being in Weschester county, New York, I was close to Manhattan and obviously hundreds of thousands of businesses that could probably use my services. But Westchester was populated by almost one million people, many thousand businesses, and a fairly wealthy place in general. It seemed to me that Westchester would probably offer plenty of business without venturing into "the city". I decided that Westchester would be my target and then began to look at the competition.

Is it fear of the unknown? Motion sickness? Stubborness? Why are some people so opposed to scrolling web pages? I think I can help some of you to convert.

I'm not talking about extremes, I'm talking about reasonable scrolling, no more than three pages down. I actually think there are cases where "paging" (those little link menus that allow you to see first, last, and pages in between, usually represented ten at a time) is more distracting than simply scrolling down a page.

That’s right, I wrote it out loud for everyone to read. Let me introduce you to my simplified view of a website. It’s a bunch of files on a computer somewhere. That’s it.