Increase your web site’s traffic, increase your social media “Likes” and “Shares” by using these techniques:
8 Simple Scientifically Proven Ways to Improve Your Writing | Fast Company | Business + Innovation.
K.E. Loveless, Web Developer, Marketing, Business Systems Consultant
Small Business Website Development & Marketing, Columbus/Dayton
Increase your web site’s traffic, increase your social media “Likes” and “Shares” by using these techniques:
8 Simple Scientifically Proven Ways to Improve Your Writing | Fast Company | Business + Innovation.
via How To Be A Super-Achiever: The 10 Qualities That Matter | Forty Mile View.
From a compatriot web developer down south:
Have you ever let Firefox or Chrome save a password for you? Then time goes by, and suddenly you’ve forgotten what that password was?
I got a new phone a few months ago, and the phone’s Twitter app asked me for my password, but since it was saved on my computer (and old phone), I never had to type it in, so it escaped my mind. I tried everything I could think of, but no luck. If only there were a quick and easy way to open up Chrome or Firefox and turn those password-asterisks into normal letters…Luckily, there is!
via Practical Tips: Retrieve a Stored Password by Playing Around with Code : Namas Solutions.
It’s not uncommon for designers to confuse a beautiful looking product with one that works beautifully. A great technique for creating smarter, better products is to approach them using story-centered design.
via Why good storytelling helps you design great products — Tech News and Analysis.
Great programmers spend very little of their time writing code – at least code that ends up in the final product. Programmers who spend much of their time writing code are too lazy, too ignorant, or too arrogant to find existing solutions to old problems. Great programmers are masters at recognizing and reusing common patterns. Good programmers are not afraid to refactor rewrite their code constantly to reach the ideal design. Bad programmers write code which lacks conceptual integrity, non-redundancy, hierarchy, and patterns, and so is very difficult to refactor. It’s easier to throw away bad code and start over than to change it.
So if you are ready, pull out your business card, lay it on the desk near your computer, pull out a pen or highlighter and be ready to identify the mistakes you are making Here are the 10 business card mistakes people make: #1 Small font size – Some of us have perfect vision. But if that’s what it takes to read the letters and numbers on your card, you are asking for trouble. Because most of us don’t. So today or before you print your new cards, please walk them around to a variety of people and ask a simple question: “Can you tell me what this says?”
via 10 Business Card Mistakes You Might Be Making | Fix, Build And Drive™.
In October of 2011 a class-action lawsuit against Yelp claiming that they were removing negative reviews in exchange for “advertising” was dismissed with prejudice (meaning they cannot be sued again for the same reason). It’s now January of 2012 and already it seems the complaints of extortion are not going away; instead they appear to be growing more frequent in numbers as awareness has risen that something fishy could be going on at Yelp.
via Yelp Extortion: The Lawsuit’s Dismissed. Are They Back At It In 2012?.