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Branding Yourself

Martin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:11:49 +0000

I’m going to buy this book. And if you are creating a brand for a client, or yourself, I suggest you read Crushit by Gary Vaynerchuk:

Anyone Care About HTML 5.0?

Martin — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:36:38 +0000

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Since the majority of people use Internet Explorer, are you designers even looking at HTML 5.0?

Let us know!

Gary Vaynerchuk’s Changing The Wine World!

Martin — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:06:52 +0000

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Here is one voice that is changing – not only the wine world, but internet marketing as well. I follow him on Twitter, and so should you!

Here’s a video of Gary Vaynerchuk on CNN:

SEO What?

Martin — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:55:14 +0000

I’ve stopped thinking, “SEO, SEO, SEO!” every time I create content for my sites. Simply put, I just write for my niche, make it informative, funny, and relevant. That takes a load off!

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Martin — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 02:43:23 +0000

I have been looking everywhere for standards compliant, XHTML 1.0 Transitional (1.1 and Strict of course) website templates to use on sites I manage. Of course I can create them myself, thank you very much , but if you ever have had an order as a web designer for 50+ sites within the timespan of a few days to fill, and you are busy with other things, then you’ll agree with me that finding a treasure like this would be a real help.

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I actually found a web site that offers free templates (keeping a footer link to their site), or for a purchase, you can buy your own. If you go to the DreamTemplate.com web site, you can view the website templates they have available. What I did was download one, and viewed the page source. Yes, they have a XHTML 1.0 Transitional DOCTYPE, and minus a few validation errors (like a non closed BR), the markup was very semantic. Great for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) as well, but that’s for another post. Let me just say that semantic coding is the benchmark for SEO.

If you’ll notice on their site,

WordPress Gurus

Martin — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:27:43 +0000

Hey all of you WordPress admins out there, can you please help us out? I’d like to see your career path as you get to work/consult on WordPress projects.Hey all of you WordPress admins out there, can you please help us out? I’d like to see your career path as you get to work/consult on WordPress projects.

photo credit: Nikolay BachiyskiHey all of you WordPress admins out there, can you please help us out? I’d like to see your career path as you get to work/consult on WordPress projects.

Who Should Host Me?

Martin — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:42:32 +0000

Best website hosting reviews:

I know that before I started reselling web site hosting, I did not know where to find a good place that had done the research for me on a selection. I have found that the best website hosting reviews will contain reviews of the top 10 hosting companies around. The reviews have to be independent from a hosting outfit, with the ratings based on on web surfer’s feedback, hosting tools testing, and the overall usage of their services.

Upperhost.com is the place readers! Here is their mission statement:

Our Mission is to Test, Inform and Inform the potential web hosting consumers and businesses. We accept no advertisements or donations from any web hosting company.

For example, they have a review of lunarpages hosting, which contains all the greatest information you need in order to make a quality decision on their services.

So all in all, I rate them at the top of the review niche for hosting.

Linux Finished My Windows For Lunch!

Martin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:07:44 +0000

photo credit: KevinI have been using Ubuntu (Linux dist.) exclusively for about what…8 months now…and I have really grown to love it. I love the OpenSource movement, and what it stands for. Not only that, but all I need I can run on Ubuntu fairly easily.

I do run (via VirtualBox) Windows XP – but that’s just for web dev. stuff. My day-to-day is strickly Linux!

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POSH Is Still POSH

Martin — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:12:13 +0000

There is always going to be the need for POSH!

Web Standards in Design

Martin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:12:03 +0000

There has been updates to the web standards authority site. It’s also moving on up in Google’s SERPs. All in all, great info and SEO.