Archive for July, 2005

Both Canon & Nikon expanding production of dSLRs

The two major manufacturers of digital SLR cameras are both expecting that demand will increase for the cameras targeted to professionals. Canon and Nikon are betting that the increase in dSLR sales will make up for a slumping consumer market.

Creating a favicon.ico with Photoshop

There is a small graphic file that most people probably don’t know about, but your web browser does. It’s favicon.ico and it can help your site to stand out.

SimpleViewer – Automatic building of the XML file

For those that have never used SimpleViewer, it’s a free Flash application that makes great portfolio pages.
To start, I wanted an easier way to update my gallery. I didn’t like the idea of having to rewrite the page or rebuild the gallery every time I wanted to add a picture. So I wanted to [...]

Website Promotion Part IV: Search Engines

Search engines are going to have to split out into a few different topics. As I was writing this part of this posting I realized that there is way too much info on search engines for a single post, or even a single topic. So I’m going to take what I’ve written and [...]

Website Promotion Part III: Links

Links from other sites
If you have access to your web server logs the referrer information can be extremely useful in determining what sites link to yours. Many of the referrers will be search engines which we’ll discuss next time, but there will also be links from other sites.
For this part of our discussion, [...]

Website Promotion Part II: Direct Access

I’m going to work backwards through the methods listed above. Search engines, while the most common way for “good” traffic to come to your site, are one of the most difficult methods to do well. So, it’s going to get left until the end.
Direct Access
If you watch your web server statistics you [...]

Website Promotion Part I: Introduction

This is going to be a serial article that I wrote for a forum.
Introduction
You can have the single greatest website in the world, but if nobody finds it your site doesn’t do any good. The question is, how do people find your site.

Sony Ericsson – w600 Walkman Phone

Last Tuesday Sony Ericsson announced a devices that combines a cell phone with a music player.

3 shark bites in 1 week

For the third time in a week, a shark bite was reported in Florida.

Google Sitemaps – One month in

It’s been about a month since I uploaded my first Sitemap to Google Sitemaps. This seems like a good time to look back and see if it has made any changes and if those changes are good.