Are splash pages really necessary? Well, first off, in order to make a valid case, what is a splash page? A splash page is a website’s entrance page. The splash page contains words or images to briefly convey the mood of the site, like a first impression or like in a business, a calling card.
[Continue Reading...]November Is National Novel Writing Month
National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo is around once again. This is the third year I have participated. Every November thousands of people take up a challenge to write a 50,000 word novel before the end of the month. Insane? Cool? I am really excited about it and although I missed the first meetup of
[Continue Reading...]Web Elite Snobbery: Why It May Hurt You in Social Media
The “web elite snobbery” is really a loose term. When I mean web elite, I mean the following: 1. Those who have high standards when viewing websites and eagerly badmouth those who do not meet them 2. Those who have no idea that the Internet exists beyond their circle and this limits their topics 3.
[Continue Reading...]Facebook Feed Changes, Eliciting Negative Feedback
Recently Facebook rolled out their new feeds, yep, feeds as in more than 1. One is the Live Feed which is somewhat like the old stream except you are informed of your friends following others and what they became a friend of. The other is the News Feed that publishes popular posts, at least for
[Continue Reading...]List of Free FTP Clients
In the past decade, there has been an increasing number of FTP clients available for free or purchase. For those who do not know was FTP is, it stands for File Transfer Protocol. It allows you to upload and image to another server from your computer. Of course, a lot of the paid FTP programs
[Continue Reading...]RIP Geocities
October 26, 2009 signifies the official closing of Geocities. All sites will be gone. In the past few months several online places have tried hard to gather and preserve sites that have been abandoned by their site owners or whether the site has been moved elsewhere, but retain great information. Whether by documenting the general
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