Blogs

In episode 20, "On Borrowed Wires" Mike and Cheryl talk about the problems with depending on free (or even paid) online services, be they cloud storage, sharing services, or social media juggernauts.

Blog is short for Web Log; the short term is now over a decade old (it was coined in 1999) and as such, I would argue that most people are familiar with it by now. The first blogs existed as html files or as logs of information but are now non-coders can have one up and running inside an hour: just add content!

With eight characters, you can give billions of people a unique name.

Here's a list of Google products that are going the way of the dinosaur. I am a little amazed that Google does two things:

1. It builds competing products (Google Maps vs. Google Earth; Google Analytics vs. Urchin; Orkut vs. Google-Plus; and, Google Video vs.

In episode 19, "Keepin' it Clean: Clean Coding Concepts" Mike and Cheryl talk about the need for clean code and script in web design -- whether it's PHP, HTML, CSS or XML -- and what can happen when things go wrong.

In episode 18, "Let's all go to Conference Camp!" Mike and Cheryl talk about the proliferation of conferences, camps and conventions -- from the tiny to the giant -- and discuss the best way for small businesses and freelancers to choose the right conference-camps for their business.

In Episode 17, Mike and Cheryl talk about the pros and cons of two of the most popular content management systems: Wordpress and Drupal. Those DeWolfes Creative develops sites on both platforms so we chat about the best uses for each as well as some of the limitations and frustrations.

How many times over the past couple of years have you heard the phrase, “There’s an app for that”?

Over the December break, Google+ rolled out the ability to add administrators to business pages. G+ calls this function "managers" and you can find it under the settings for your page.

Contemplating swapping over to the Facebook Timeline? For those of you who don't know, the Facebook timeline is the new profile layout that supposedly tracks your life via this online site (I'm dubious: I barely used Facebook in the 1980s). If you need to a swell photo for your splash zone on your Facebook timeline, grab one of the images we have available for download. We're going to post more, heck-- ask us and we'll make a cool one you'd love to feature for your Facebook timeline!