Some websites (e.g., Gmail) create popup windows in Chrome without displaying the menubar, which means that you don’t have access to any of the usual Chrome menubar functionality.
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LinkedIn Recommendation Generators
Given how common requests for LinkedIn recommendations are and how devalued their currency has become, I’ve thought for a while that it would be helpful to have a tool to generate these automatically.
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How to Mass Delete All the Emails in a Folder in Gmail
I used to subscribe to lots of emails from online retailers. As a result, I have thousands of these emails stored in folders (also known as “labels”) in Gmail. After deciding it was time for a cleanup, I discovered that mass deleting emails in Gmail is not that intuitive. So, here’s how to do it.
Read MoreWorst Banner Ad Ever?
When you do a lot of remarketing, you’re always on the lookout for good banner ad designs and ideas. So, I couldn’t help but notice that this banner ad is the polar opposite to anything I would consider to be best practice for banner ad design. Read More
Building Your Online Reputation
This post by Seth Godin on building your backlist (or as I think of it, building your online reputation) struck a chord with me.
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Good Online Advertising or Simply Bad Taste?
I came across this banner ad on Weather.com today from Travelers Insurance. Given that millions of people are likely to be pretty miserable over the next few days to weeks, I’m trying to decide if it is being responsive to the news of the day or is just in bad taste.
Read MoreAren’t Websites Supposed to Save Money?
A recent BBC news article writes that the British government spent £94M last year developing and running websites.
Read MoreGet Ready to Claim Your Facebook Vanity URL
TechCrunch is reporting that Facebook users will soon be able to pick their own vanity URLs, which is pretty big news if you’re a business using the site for marketing or community-related purposes.
Are Server Side Includes Still a Relevant Technique for Managing Large Web Sites?
Most of the sites I’ve managed have used content management systems that spit out static pages.
As such, I’m become a proponent of using server side includes (SSI) as a way to manage global site components, due to their simplicity and ease-of-use. Read More