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Domain Names 101

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You may already know this, but an internet domain name, also called a URL, is like a telephone number – it’s what people enter into their web browser to find your website.

For example, http://organizemyaffairs.com is one of mine.

Notice the .com part? This .com is called the TLD Extension. There are others, like .net and .org but .com is really the best and only one you’ll need.

Also, you could use dashes in your domain name, like www.organize-my-affairs.com but this is NOT A GOOD IDEA because people will assume there are none and go to someone else’s website.

Good luck!

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Top IE 9 Site Pinning Features (from HTML Goodlies)

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Justin Whitney has penned an interesting post with lots of great resources.

Have a look at http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/browser_specific/Using-pinning.html

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10 Website Usability Don’ts

January 5, 2011

Line25.com has created a list of 10 “usability crimes” that highlights some of the most common mistakes or overlooked areas in web design and provides an alternative solution to help enhance the usability of your website. Here they are: Form labels that aren’t associated to form input fields A logo that doesn’t link to the [...]

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Does IE9 support Canvas in HTML5?

November 11, 2010

This March 2010 Webmonkey article says no*, but I wonder if that’s still the case today (8 months later) * “While there is reason to be excited about IE9, the browser is just as notable for what’s missing, namely features Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari are already shipping — the HTML5 Canvas element, support for [...]

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Brushes application

September 14, 2010

Brushes – http://www.brushesapp.com/ Brushes is a painting application designed from scratch for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Featuring an advanced color picker, several realistic brushes, multiple layers, extreme zooming, and a simple yet deep interface, it is a powerful tool for creating original artwork on your mobile device. Brushes allows you to choose any [...]

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Redesigning the Web for Touch Screens

May 4, 2010

The MIT Technology Review published an interesting short article: “Redesigning the Web for Touch Screens  A new crop of touch-based devices is changing the way users interact with Web pages”  By Erica Naone Excerpts: the advent of touch-based devices “is almost asking the entire Web to change its behavior from what’s been built up over [...]

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“Three distinct personalities in a successful business” from Creative Overflow

April 29, 2010

Creative Overflow has an interesting and helpful take on why only 4% of small businesses survive 10 years Excerpt: “Three distinct personalities make up a successful business; an entrepreneur, a manager and a technician. The entrepreneurs job is to be the go getter. The one that creates out of thin air; the person constantly coming [...]

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“Ten Accounting & Finance Secrets for Start-Ups” ~CFOwise blog

February 25, 2010

Click the following link to read “Ten Accounting & Finance Secrets for Start-Ups”on the CFOwise blog: http://www.cfowise.com/part-time-cfo/ten-accounting-finance-secrets-for-start-ups/ Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

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How to Make the Internet a Lot Faster

February 24, 2010

MIT Technology Review published this article “How to Make the Internet a Lot Faster” advising that very-high-speed broadband can’t just be about big pipes. Excerpts: Existing applications for very-high-speed Internet include the transfer of very large files, streaming high-definition (and possibly 3-D) video, video conferencing, and gaming. Some experts speculate that accessing large data files [...]

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Stopping Stealthy Downloads – A new tool blocks files that try to install without alerting the user.

February 22, 2010

According to an article from MIT Technology Review: “Researchers at SRI International and Georgia Tech are preparing to release a free tool to stop “drive-by” downloads: Internet attacks in which the mere act of visiting a Web site results in the surreptitious installation of malicious software. The new tool, called BLADE (Block All Drive-By Download [...]

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