…And No One’s Around To Read It, Was It Ever Really Posted?

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For a while now, I’ve been making posts on this blog at 10am (-500) on Wednesdays.  Last week I shook things up by waiting to post until Friday.  Then I asked if anybody noticed.  There were only a few responses (three) to the poll I created.  I know I have a lot more [...]

If a Blog Post Falls In the Woods…

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It’s actually Monday night as I’m writing this post.  Normally, I’ll have a new post published each Wednesday at 10am local time.  Even though I’m obviously writing this post in plenty of time to meet that self-imposed deadline, I’m running a little experiment.  I want to see what kind of response I [...]

The Survey for People Who Make Websites

A List Apart is ramping up their second annual survey of web professionals.  You may be wondering what is the point of this survey.  A bunch of people answer questions.  Then we learn that 0.3% of the world’s web developers live in Argentina.  Okay.  And?

Road Trip

No big post this week because I’ve had a sudden trip added to my calendar.  Nothing bad; it just came up unexpectedly is all.  If you need something to tide you over, might I suggest this discussion on whether a business should dump all of their information on their website or just include the bare essentials.

Why Are These Blog Posts So High in Google?

I was checking through the site logs this morning, and I noticed that I was getting a lot of traffic on two phrases in particular.  At least at the time of this writing, I have a post from this blog at the number two spot in Google’s search results for both talking to clients and audit [...]

Blog Revamp

Long overdue, I finally did a redesign of this Best Practices blog.  I was motivated to do this because I decided to upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress.  (I had been using 2.0.3, and the admin interface has gotten a lot better since then.)  Since I was going to all the trouble, though, I [...]

Calling All Guest Bloggers

I sat down yesterday and wrote out all of the stuff currently going on in my life that requires my attention. I am a juggler with a lot of balls in the air. Most of these items involve developing my freelance web design business. There’s a couple of personal items in there, [...]

Make Your Web Site Count

Update: Along with changing the name of my business from The Web Shop to Site Potion, the Make Your Web Site Count blog now lives at http://www.sitepotion.com/blog.

I recently started a new blog, Make Your Web Site Count, that targets small business owners with web sites. The focus of the posts are helping non-technical people get [...]

Best Practices Makes the Top 100

I didn’t even know there were 100 blogs about freelancing to compile, but Bootstrapper has come out with a Top 100. They aren’t ranked in any meaningful way. (I’m #45, and A List Apart is #46.) They are grouped by industry, though, so you can focus on the selected blogs in writing, [...]

Tracking Your Activities with a Free Online Tool

Not too long ago I took a training course for business owners. The focus was on intelligently developing relationships with other business owners with whom you can refer business back and forth. The key to making this work is to appropriately feed and water these relationships. If you take the right actions, you can have [...]