Monthly Archives: March 2014
Back up your “stuff” via cloud-based apps
There have been some concerns about cloud-based app usage over the last couple years – in regards to security and availability of your documents. I’m writing to say that the winds of change have been moving quite steadily towards “the cloud” (I can’t honestly stand this term, ‘cloud’ – but it’s what everyone uses so […]
FTP… What is it?
This post isn’t for advanced users, but to be a basic overview for people not “in-the-know”. FTP, or file transfer protocol, was originally created in 1971 – before the birth of the World Wide Web, as a command-line interface (text-based, relying on specific commands). From inception, it was built to transfer files from one host […]
Link-building: A Quick Lesson for SEO
Any SEO campaign that is gaining traction hits a point where you may not need to change a lot of information on your site (unless you plan on adding lots more content regularly, but that’ll be a different post). At that point, a great thing to check out, is how many websites are linking to […]
Happy 25th Birthday to the World Wide Web
Twenty-five years ago today – Tim Berners-Lee submitted a paper to his employer (CERN), which described a network (web) of computers that each had access to files – shared among each other. Little did he know that his idea would birth some of the greatest achievements (and bank accounts) the world had ever seen. Although […]
Time to Unlock Knowledge?
As long as I’ve been creating fun stuff on the Web, there have been people locking down the knowledge for their personal use only. I’m not sure if this has been expounded by the economy, by the overwhelming growth and popularity of the Web, or if it is being condensed by developers who are afraid […]
The World’s Worst Website Ever
I stumbled across this site a while ago – and had fun pulling it apart trying to find out everything ‘wrong’ with it. Although a lot of it is personal opinion – and you can have your site however you want, there are so many things on this site that would need to be ‘fixed’ […]
Dynamic vs. Static
It’s time for another post – and i’ve got a topic that was brought up a while back, in regards to “how complex of a site can you do, when your developer limits you to ten pages?” Well, to answer that question – i’ll have to turn to another analogy. “MadLibs vs. Nearly every other […]
Introduction to Tech Nickel
For the initial post on this blog – i’d like to take a minute and introduce the mission of the blog, and to let you know why we’re going to take some time to teach you about some borderline “nerdy” things. “Tech Nickel” is going to break down a lot of the terminology that surrounds […]