In my past life, I was a musician, a music producer, and I owned a small recording studio. So, when I find ways to mix music and the internet I get a little nostalgic. inudge.net provides a fun little online music sequencer that makes it easy to create your own music. You place dots on a [...]

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Microsoft has announced a new program for Web developers to cop free software, support and advice. WebsiteSpark, which is similar to their BizSpark program, will provide developers with access to full-featured Microsoft development tools, platform technologies, and server products. So, if you have 10 or fewer employees check out the program. http://www.microsoft.com/web/websitespark/

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Some of the best lessons I have learned about my customers’ businesses has come from their competition. Just browsing the sites of their competitors has given me insight into my customers’ industry, strengths and weaknesses, and business model. The competitor websites gave me inspiration to find recommended strategies and ways to help them innovate ahead of their competition. Basically, [...]

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Here’s word straight from the horses mouth, for all the people who didn’t believe me (LOL), Google does not use keyword meta tags to determine search ranking on Google.com. Google Webmaster Central Blog explains with a video and Q&A on why Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking. Does this mean [...]

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Everyday I face another deadline. In my rush to keep clients happy, I sometimes over look the simplest of things. Yesterday I had a Datagrid that would not bind when the Datagrid’s page changed. I checked everything. I checked my list of common problems, double checked the code, rewrote the bind code, I copied and [...]

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Bringing your company or organization online is simple, affordable, and smart. You don’t have to know anything about computers or technology; you just have to use the right company or online service to help you. Most importantly you have to remember that your website is part of your business and you have to treat it [...]

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I am working on a project that requires some creative use of CSS. As I usually do when I have to do something I don’t do everyday, I pull out my reference notes. Basically, I keep a bunch of email drafts, saved in Outlook, that contain links on various topics. I know this isn’t the [...]

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Twitter and JAJAH are collaborating on a service to let users make free phone calls with a Tweet. JAJAH Brings Telephone Calls to Twitter starting on 9/18/2009 with beta testing. They are called @calls and the calls are made without revealing your number or having to know the number of the person you want to call. [...]

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Well, I had a project that stumped me for a moment. I understand how to dynamically inject meta tags through System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlHead. But, what if you already have Meta Tags set? I really didn’t have a clue. So, I had to take the dreaded trip to MSDN to browse object definitions and came up with the [...]

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Say hello to the happy couple. A very smart team at FluidHTML took out the shotgun and told Flash and HTML to play nice. Search indexable, deep linking, and browser history with Flash. What? I thought we all ran away from Flash becuase of these limitations.  The usability and simplicity of HTML with the coolness of [...]

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