How many times have you found yourself subscribing to the next big web 2.0 applications’ launch mailing list, and then never getting a single email? Or joining a weekly newsletter that is completely disorganized and has more information than a month worth of site content? Just like websites, newsletters can be essential and extremely useful [...]

Review Me, the new service from the people behind Text Link Ads, pays you to write reviews. So just how well do they do? It’s our turn to review them.

Having a hard time getting anything back from your visitors? We’ve run into the same problem, and we still haven’t been able to turn reads into responses. But maybe you can change that by following these commenting tips.

Our jobs as designers, programmers, or web developers is never done. It seems that once a design is finished, we start thinking of things that can be tweaked, added, or taken away. It’s even worse with all the Web 2.0 speak and AJAX that seems to be everywhere. We don’t want to be left in the dust. However, in our efforts to have the latest and greatest incorporated into designs, we may have left someone else in the dust: our visitors.

New Internet projects and ideas capture entrepreneurs imagination all the time. If you’re one of these people who dream up the next big thing for the web, then start it but never get it off the ground, you’re missing your shot.

We’ve all seen those anti-piracy ads that Hollywood is so fond of. You know, the ones about stealing cars, DVDs, and purses. The ad tries to tell us that if we don’t steal any of those things, then we shouldn’t pirate movies either. Perhaps Hollywood should add one more item in there along with the cars and purses: “You wouldn’t steal anybody’s web content, right?” If you are a writer for the web, you should be worried about people stealing something that is very dear to you: your content.

Some way or another you’re gonna’ have to link some schtuff on your site — your blogroll, tags, buttons, throng of social networking icons, etc. So, what’s your style?
Me? I’m a “text link” sort of guy. They’re pretty intuitive, they imply action, and they help improve SEO. Follow a few simple steps, and your [...]

Site rips have been around forever. Just like everything else, the net is not always the nicest of places. If you have a design that is really well liked, there will always be someone out there who will go the distance to copy the design down to every last detail. So, what can you do [...]

In this article, we are going to create a section in the sidebar of an individual post that will display eveyrtime a visitor comes to your blog from a search engine.

Competition can be tough. How can you deal with a net full of sites trying to accomplish the same thing? We try to help.