Creating your first business website can be an intimidating task to many business owners with grand visions. The reality today is, many people will Google you to learn about your business before they consider handing anything more than a few dollars to you. You may have done this yourself (you may even be doing it…
There are few things more annoying to someone browsing the web than to click a link that doesn’t work. While building pages on your site, test each link to make sure it works each time you create a link. Even after you’re done, and especially if your site has links to other sites, check all…
Did you know? The World is Going Mobile… Tablets and Smart Phones are #1 and #2 fastest growing consumer electronic products Sales of web-enabled mobile devices far exceed desktop and laptop computers Smartphones shipments outpaced personal computers including tablets, laptops, netbooks and desktops for the first time in 2011 (IDG News Service) The Smartphone Market…
Does your web page take a very long time to show up the first time you open it in your browser? Does it even take more time on slower Internet connections? The problem might be the size of your image files or performance of the web servers. Why should you care? Customers don’t want to…
Moving from Microsoft Office 2003 or earlier to Office or Visio 2007, 2010 or 2013 can be overwhelming at first. Be patient. It will take a little while but you will get used to it. In a little while, you may find yourself lost should you ever go back to Office 2003. Here is some…
Multilingual Website If your website had content in more than one language, be sure to identify the default language of the page using the HTML tag itself. For example, if your page is in XHTML, you would use: <html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xml:lang=”fr” lang=”fr”> If you are working in HTML5, you can drop the xmlns and xml:lang…
The church is one of the most socially connecting groups of people in the world. They meet each week, sometimes even twice a week and are connected through all forms of social connections such as email, telephone, mail, social networks, gathering, study groups and more. It is just natural that Social Media and the church…
The following is a list of free web development tools and resources to help you ensure accessibility on your website, regardless of whether or not you decide to take compliance all the way to WCAG 2.0, Section 508 or your countries favourite flavour of the WCAG guidelines. If you are not going to make your website friendly…
Where do you get your inspiration when writing articles for your newsletter, your blog or for publication on websites? Here are a few of my favourite content creation strategies you can use when you run out of ideas. Have you ever read an article and though to yourself “my clients/blog readers would love to know…
Did You Know? Since 1998, Microsoft Windows has included the ability to create compressed ZIP files (under the name “Compressed Folders”), open and extract files from ZIP files too. Applications like WinZip are now only necessary if you need to do things like create self-extracting ZIP files or password protect them. Even in these cases, there…
Over the past few years, the issue of accessibility on the web has been heating up. Companies all around the world are being sued because their website is not accessible to everyone. In 2009, the Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which is the main international standards organization for the web, published the second version of…
Every once in a while, I receive warning messages from people who really mean well. These messages usually relate to viruses, or deception schemes. Sometimes the warnings may actually have been legitimate many years ago but no longer apply. The fact of the matter is that many of them are nothing but urban legends and…