Archive for the ‘Web/Tech’ Category
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
If you’re still on the fence about blogging or what to do with your dusty old web site that’s sorely in need of a face lift, snap up my new guide on web development.
There are a lot more of us out there on our own these days, and it’s hard to do it all in [...]
Tags: Blogging, Google SERPs, Search Engine Optimization, web development techniques
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Friday, January 2nd, 2009
Mending clothes, making basic automotive repairs, fixing plumbing leaks, and the ability to “McGyver” amazing contraptions all may seem like they are too challenging for people raised in this techno era.
Tapping into your inner grandpa and grandma may inspire you to look around at what you can fix or repurpose in your closets and drawers. [...]
Tags: darning, economic measures, economy, frugality
Posted in Knitting, Life of the Virtual Assistant, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Social Media sites have been heralded as the latest and best way to network and establish your brand. When you’re your own boss, your time is your own and without someone peering over your shoulder, you can Tweet/Plurk/Flickr/Facebook/LinkedIn your day away if you like.
Just how many minutes a day can you justify without cutting into [...]
Tags: employee use of social media, social media
Posted in Business Strategies/Perspectives, Web/Tech | No Comments »
Monday, October 6th, 2008
Like many small developers, I built a number of websites between 1998 and 2002 using the then standard approach of hand-coded HTML and, later, a web editing program. Then, there were a number of sites created between 2002 and 2005, built on amassed HTML knowledge and reflecting my earliest flirtation with with Cascading Style Sheets [...]
Tags: Changing web technology, Updating outdated websites
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
Update on Geekgyrls:
As of this writing (October 22, 2008), Geekgyrls is closed and offline.
Internet Marketing Specialist Anna Baron, owner of The Virtual Link, is launching a new forum just for us girls. Make that gyrls. Make that geek gyrls.
Anna describes Geekgyrls.com like this:
“It’s just a fun place to hang out, share information, etc. It’s [...]
Tags: tech forum
Posted in Web/Tech | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Whatever your level of expertise, whatever tools you use, would you like to help A List Apart get a clear picture of who does web design?
Here’s the what & why:
“The information you’ve so generously shared with A List Apart will help us form a picture of the ways web design is practiced around the globe. [...]
Tags: web development, web/
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Saturday, July 26th, 2008
This is an undertaking that involves a huge leap of faith!
Note from ktcosmos: This article was originally developed at the request of a colleague, who was tackling a conversion project herself. She published it on her new blog but then contacted me recently to say she had grown frustrated and stressed out over the conversion [...]
Tags: Blogging, WordPress as CMS
Posted in Blogging, Web/Tech | 7 Comments »
Friday, July 11th, 2008
In response to Lorelle on WordPress’s weekly blogging challenge, I am considering the changes computer software has wrought in my life.
I can still recall hearing the name Microsoft sometime in the early 80’s, and wondering just what that even referred to?!
At that time, the computer I had at my disposal at work only ran off [...]
Tags: computer software
Posted in Web/Tech | 3 Comments »
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
This is a Mac office and in it, I often open Word files from clients who are PC users. No problem. Between a handy little utility file called icWord and keeping a version of Microsoft Office for Mac on my secondary computer, I rarely encounter issues.
Till today.
A client sent me a zipped file with the [...]
Tags: Mac users and PC documents, Microsoft word converters
Posted in Macs | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
I love Goog 411. And I’ve lately been feeling like I “get” social networking, even though I struggle to incorporate it into daily life. I mean, if it’s a time crunch requiring a choice between exercising and Twittering or LinkedIn, I have to choose exercise.
Now, just as I think I have a handle on enough [...]
Tags: Brightkite Invites, location-based social networking, Loopt, mobile social mapping application
Posted in Web/Tech | 5 Comments »