In a few weeks, I’ll be presenting “Web 101 for Business,” an overview of Web sites specifically for small business. Thursday, February 23, 2006 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sherman Oaks Public Library, Community Room 14245 Moorpark St., Sherman Oaks, CA 91423 (Moorpark at Beverly Glen/Tyrone Ave) Cost: Free! The presentation will start with the [...]

Two stories of note about the ownership of domain names — one recent and one in the past — both, thankfully, with happy endings. Each illustrates the need to maintain some control over your domain name (i.e. your URL, such as brianwold.com). Note about Domain Names A registered domain name is owned by the person [...]

I was speaking with a potential client this week who said, “I can be pretty particular about things, so I’ll want to make sure the Web site is exactly right.” Fine with me — you should be particular about things. It’s your Web site, representing you and your business. Hire some help, sure — but [...]

When I recently switched this blog to WordPress, I made another switch as well, to a table-free layout. Yep, this page is now a CSS-only page. There are no tables, and all layout, images and positioning are located in the CSS stylesheet. Why? Several reasons: Pages are smaller, so they load faster. The stylesheet is [...]

Why do Web pages display today’s date and time? In case you need a clock? In case your watch stops working? In case you’ve fallen down a well but still have wireless service? Most of the time, including the date and time provides little value and clutters up the page. Of course, the idea is [...]

Happy 2006, everyone! I’ve just finished switching my blog’s underlying technology from Blogger to WordPress. It’s been an interesting challenge — one that’ll inspire a few posts in future days. The reason for the switch? Blogger is a fine tool, and when I started this thing a couple of years ago, it was an easy [...]