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PHPlist: One of the best newletter managers

PHPlist is an open-source newsletter manager. It has a huge feature set including double opt-in signup, scheduling, RSS feed generation, click tracking, attachments, bounce management and much more. Best of all, PHPlist is free to download, install and use, and is easy to integrate with any website. If you’ve been thinking about starting a newsletter [...]

Get Rounded Corners on Your Website Without Images

A lot of Web 2.0 sites have rounded corners on everything. This is can be done with background images, but this leads to bulky webpages and areas on your web page that can be difficult to resize or change the colors.
This website demonstrates how to get rounded corners with only CSS and a downloadable javascript [...]

Create Presentation Slide Shows in XHTML

A slide show from W3C that describes how to create a business presentation slide show on the web. The presentation can live on a web server and you don’t have to download any software to view it.read more | digg story

Seven Ways to Be Mistaken for a Spammer

The “This is Spam” button popping up on many service providers’ email services can be empowering for a user or potential spam victim. But it can also be the kiss of death for a legitimate business that, with a click of that button, gets falsely (or perhaps legitimately) labeled as a spammer. This article on [...]

10 Tips for Designing Effective Banner Ads

Here’s an oldie, but goodie. Banner ads work if you design them right. This article by Berry Zegler has 10 great tips:
Banner bashing: It’s hip; it’s now; it’s the rallying cry of pundits, ad-agency clients, and traditional copywriters who have always had their suspicions about the efficacy of Web advertising and now believe they have [...]

How to turn your website into your 24/7 sales force

Your website has the potential to be the most reliable salesperson in your business. It never takes coffee breaks, gets sick or goes home early. It always responds to your customer’s inquiries instantly. In fact, using a few simple strategies, you can build a website that has a continuous and predictable positive effect on your [...]

Discover how to start or grow your successful Internet business

A few years ago, I bought an Internet Marketing course. At the time, I was winding down my eBay business, so even though I knew this course was packed full of great ideas, I never really applied them.
Then, about a month ago, I got an e-mail from the company that produced the course inviting me [...]

Google ranking voodoo? Just use common sense!

Earlier this week, I bought a book about webspace marketing called Google Best Practices by Jerry West of Web Marketing Now. In it, he discusses how to best position your webspace to take advantage of the tremendous power of Google. He discusses how to select search terms that you should target and what you need [...]

Modern Webspace’s webspace lives

My webspace is finally up. Check it out at http://www.modernwebspace.com. I’m still not entirely happy with it, yet. The site focuses only on hosting service, which is not all that I do. I would say that I’m more of a website consultant than anything else. Yes, I provide hosting. I do some website design and [...]

Many life changes

Yep…I got hitched. On September 30, my lovely fiance agreed to become my wife. Our wedding was attended by about 60 guests, all of them dear friends and family. We held the wedding on beautiful Orcas Island, one of the San Juan islands in Washington State. If you haven’t already, check out our wedding web [...]