Planning Your Site for Users and Search Engines
Choose a subject for your site This might seem obvious to some but an effective web site is focused on one subject. If it’s your business web site, then it’s about your business, your products, your...
View ArticleConfusion about rel=”nofollow” links, robots.txt files, and robots meta tags
It seems that some people are getting mixed signals about the difference between using the attribute/value pair of rel="nofollow" anchor links, disallow from robots.txt files, and the robots meta tags....
View ArticleRSS: What it is, and how to use it
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a system of sending and receiving updates and other information from a central source to many users. Very often, computer users find themselves regularly visiting the...
View ArticleUsers and passwords – what can an Admin do to help?
User passwords vs. administrator passwords A general user account can get away with a less complex password than an administrator; an admin account should be longer and more random in nature. Since...
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Layar Augmented Reality (AR) Adds Quick Response (QR) Codes
Layar, the augmented reality (AR) app that’s available on common platforms such as iOS and Android, now handles Quick Response (QR) codes directly within the app. I can almost hear you say: “Wait…...
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Beginner’s Guide to the Twitter Profile Photo
Social media sites don’t make it easy to understand how to customize your account pages with images. For designer types like myself who want to know precise image dimensions and anything else that may...
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Changing Your Twitter Header Image (Part 1)
In September, 2012 Twitter added a header image option allowing users to further customize the look of their Twitter pages. Unlike the profile photo that I wrote about previously, uploading a header...
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Changing Your Twitter Header Image (Part 2)
Now that the technical requirements and design considerations for Twitter header images have been covered in Part 1 of this topic, the next step is putting that knowledge to work in creating and...
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Facebook is not Direct Marketing
We do a lot of work with small and medium-sized businesses. Questions often come up from our clients on how to be effective on social media, especially facebook, when they are so busy trying to run...
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It’s time to check your Augmented Reality (AR) skills!
Please give us a hand by testing our new Layar augmented reality ad for UWinnipeg PACE on your iPhone/iPad or Android phone. Using the free AR Layar app, scan the ad image and try out the augmented...
View ArticleTracking Packages and Usability
Thomas Baekdal gets it. I wish others would, too. Why must tracking packages around the world be such a time consuming and frustrating feat? Give us stats and give us details, but present them in a...
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It’s time to check your Augmented Reality (AR) skills!
Please give us a hand by testing our new Layar augmented reality ad for UWinnipeg PACE on your iPhone/iPad or Android phone. Using the free AR Layar app, scan the ad image and try out the augmented...
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