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7 Ways to Get Control of Your Online Company Assets
It's a typical practice to entrust your website, ecommerce site, blog, and social media pages to a person or firm. They know the technology. Let them drive. But that backfires when a disgruntled employee or a disgruntled contractor decides to withhold information...
6 Ways to Build a Website
This is an old school website, built with HTML and perhaps some Javascript, this type of website is usually custom crafted by a website designer. They likely use website building tools like Adobe Dreamweaver, and, if they are truly crafting your website from scratch,...
What is the Cloud?
There are a lot of "cloud" companies out there, each with their own definition of what the cloud is and what it means to you. I am proud to say that I worked for a company that had one of the first true cloud products. The company was Concentric Networks (now XO...
What is a website, really?
The first thing you are going to say is, who would ask such a stupid question. As an owner of a company that purports to build websites for people, I have a particular interest in your understanding of what goes into making a website. Of course, not all businesses...
Gmail – unsecure or the most secure?
The recent revelations of Internet security have probably caused you to reconsider how safe your data is in the cloud. We all get heartburn over this (and doctors, attorneys, and financial professionals have double the heartburn) because we don't want our information...
5 Free Online Security Tools
I've always told my clients that the Internet is a dirt road. By now we are all aware of the dangers of the Internet. I tire of the daily reports of large Internet sites being hacked and passwords or credit card numbers stolen. Those reports won't end soon. I've found...
What do we mean when we refer to Web Presence?
Have you ever Googled yourself and found a number of references about you on different websites. Perhaps you see a Yellowpages or Yelp listing that you didn't know about. Surprising, huh? Web presence is the sum total of all of the pages on the Internet that talk...
Links to Search Engine Local Directories
These local directories are free. Google My Business Bing Places for Business LinkedIn Yelp Mapquest
How much disk storage do I need?
These days most traditional computers – laptops and desktops – come with 1 TB (terabyte) hard drives. But do you need this much space? By my own experience, no. Unless you've amassed a fair amount of purchased music, or unless you carry around a great deal of...