Blog Title: Building Better Web Sites

Zoom your browser window easily

You can zoom the content of your web browser easily. On a PC, hold the CTRL key and use the plus sign (+) key to zoom in, and use the minus sign (-) key to zoom out. You can reset the zoom using CTRL ZERO (0). On the Mac, use the same procedure, read more..

The Long Tail – A Secret Behind SEO Dominance

Here is one of the plays that comes right out of my Search Engine Optimization (SEO) playbook. This tip should make you more money with your website, but it also unfortunately takes more work for you to implement. This technique is one of the tips that high performance website owners use to dominate Google. What is read more..

Free Delaware Search Engine

For those of you that have a real brick and mortar business in Delaware, you can now get a free listing for your business on Delaware.com (a site that I own). Premier listings are also available for only $50 a year. This is an easy way to get a powerful inbound link read more..

Realtors using Blogs, Facebook, and Google for fun and profit

We are in the Web 3.0 world now. Realtors are just starting to get it, but most of them don’t get it. Not all of it. Not yet. It took a while, but Realtors are finally coming around to Web 2.0, Web 3.0, social networking, whatever you want to call it. It is becoming clear to read more..

SEO Tips – Register your domain name for 3+ years

A prospective customer came in to see me today, and right away I found several things in their website that were holding them back from better search engine results and sales. One of the first things that I do when I evaluate a website is to look at the domain name registration of the domain read more..

Hell Has Frozen-Over – I bought a Macbook Pro

My old PC laptop served me well, but…. I loved my Acer Ferarri laptop when I got it two years ago. Fast, good looking, lots of features like a card reader. It has served me well. When I got the Ferarri, it had Windows XP preloaded on it. I immediately wiped it and installed XP fresh. read more..

Kelly McKown (my wife) featured in Delaware Today Magazine

Delaware Today’s Magazine’s November 2008 issue did a feature on “Women Shaping Business” in Delaware. You can see the article that mentions Kelly on page 76 of the magazine. Kelly is the President of Incorporating Services Ltd., which is based in Dover, Delaware. The article mentions how Kelly assisted the company in tripling sales over read more..

I am hiring – Graphic Designer and Salesperson

Graphic Designer We are looking for someone that is right out of college, or someone that has experience designing websites. Programming experience is not required. Applicants should be proficient with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver. We will train this employee on design layout, usability, web application integration, search engine optimization, navigation building, and analytics. More information read more..

I am leaving Comcast for Fios at my new house

I’ve never really been a fan of Comcast since day 1. Their lack of customer support is legendary, and here in Delaware, you can’t call them 24×7 even for billing. Now, Comcast just announced that they will be placing speed limits on their residential customers. The New York Times has an article on it today. My read more..

Online Bill Presentment and Payment (OBPP) for Municipalities

Delaware.Net has built many websites for municipalities, and one of the major reasons why we are chosen for projects is our integration of the public website with complaint systems, content management systems, mass emailing systems, intranets, project management and – online bill-pay systems (or OBPP). A solid municipal website design effort requires all of these read more..

New Mac laptops coming out this fall, might make the switch

There are a lot of rumors about the new Mac laptops, and you can see some spy photos of the new cases circling the net. Looks like they will be ready sometime in September. Computerworld has a rumor page about it saying that it will have a glass multi-touch mousepad. Pretty neat. I’ll wait and read more..

Ex-Google Engineers Create New Search Engine

Some ex Google engineers have created a new search engine called CUIL (pronounced “cool”). The domain is www.cuil.com. Their goal – to create a bigger, badder search engine that can rival Google. I tried it out, and I have some thoughts about it. More after the jump. Cuil uses the same preview graphic of the read more..