Leese Internet Technology

Several years ago, this KB article would have been very handy. I needed it again today, so here it is:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/96269

I love this article…

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/GuerrillaInterviewing3.html

Not a very clever title. Certainly, to be published more I will need better hooks. But I’ll work up to that. For now, I am very excited that a local publication will be printing my articles about religion and websites/technology. I have felt for a long time that in order to market vertically, I needed to prove my expertise by being published. And, although the compilation of these writings may be book worthy some day, for now, the subject just doesn’t contain enough content to warrant a book. So monthly articles will certainly do. And we have so much success building church websites that we feel it is wise to exploit that fact and grow our name in that community. Just like Amy Grant and Reliant-K, we aren’t restricting ourselves to the Christian realm, that is not part of our business model. But we are certainly excited to market to that audience. And since we do not take on projects that are morally ambiguous, we are a solid vendor for those clients. We’ll see how it works out. And I’ll refer you to those articles as they come online.

Recently sent this to a client regarding email applications…

1. Blacklisted? Not sure? Check http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx
   and enter IP Address
2. Spamcop got you down? Not sure? Check http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml
   and enter IP Address
3. For gobs of information (and to signup to be in the feedback loop) -
   visit http://postmaster.aol.com. The whole site has a lot of useful
   information. Being in the feedback loop will allow them to notify you if
   a user puts your email in the junk mail. This way you can unsubscribe the
   customer, instead of risking being blacklisted.
4. Yahoo! wants to be your friend. How can you be their friend? Visit
   http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/postmaster-15.html
5. Finally, here is a legal blurb about commercial email systems:
   http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/canspam.shtm

I recently read a SitePoint Newsletter (Tribune #387) that was titled, “Why This Industry Sucks”. It outlined some points that I have been thinking for a while. Things like, how to prove you are a good developer in a sea of bad developers. I look at other people’s code all the time (when we get hired to take over a project from a failed effort) and some of it is really crap. I mean, its not modular (or object oriented) it doesn’t have any (or many) security measures in place and in general, its just thrown together. And people just want the cheapest solution possible and frankly, you get what you pay for. And it ends up costing more in the end when someone like me has to come in and try to fix it. Anyway, head over to SitePoint and check out that article, it makes a lot of sense. And the last line, “…the same challenges every business faces. We need to adapt, and make it work, or fizzle out” is true because in the light of the very challenge they describe we have found that getting certified by the vendors we trust and recommend to our clients, gives us the credibility to be hired and trusted as a new developer for our clients.

Defined here: http://www.wilsonweb.com/wmt5/viral-principles-clean.htm. . Fantastic article and emphasizes its point by being viral itself. I highly recommend anyone interested in making money with the web, read this.

For me, it is very refreshing and brings a sense of newness…at least during January. Once we get past February, the newness has faded and when I write the date on checks, it is more of a habit to write out the new year. But for now, lets settle into newness. And to go with that, we are launching a new website design. Thanks to Riotta.com and RyanFidler.com for helping us get this new site launched. Our hope is to bring our website look up to par with the quality of work we deliver. We had many new clients launch successful new websites and we have many more projects in the wings right now. We hope 2008 is prosperous for all our clients and wish you well.

Just to let everyone know, if you are having difficulty finding a post on our website, we are moving to a new format that includes our post name in the title. So this means two changes, one is in how the posts are referenced and two is in the names. We are going to select titles that more accurately reflect the content in the post so that search engines are able to figure out what is the most important information in our posts. This is a valuable tip for everyone looking for some easy, cheap seo. Make sure your url has a search term or two that relates to the actual content of the page.