This week was the Dallas/Fort Worth Search Engine Marketing Association’s (DFWSEM) annual “The State of Search” meeting. Traditionally, this is the biggest meeting of the year, and with experts from both Google, Bing and a surprise Skype presentation by Mary Bowling of Search Engine News, this year did not disappoint. In this article, I’ll go over some of the highlights and help bring home how those highlights can help a small businesses website.
WordPress Backups Made Easy
October 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Introduction
So as I thought of the things that scared me this Halloween the idea of losing data came to my mind. Those beloved ones and zeroes arranged ever so eloquently to form the digital pictures, songs, or in this case websites.
Modern websites are almost all database driven. Why is that? Using databases we can store the contents, settings, and other data in one convenient spot. Then popular Content Management Systems (CMS) like WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal access this data and present it to your websites visitors in a nice format.
Happy 20th Birthday Linux!
August 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This morning I sent out a tweet from my phone, checked in on Facebook, downloaded a book from Amazon, did a Google search and ended up on eBay. What do all of these things have in common? Linux. August 25, 2011 marks the 20th anniversary of this revolutionary operating system released by Linus Torvalds.
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Using Mac OS X and Windows
July 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
In the operating system world we all know that Microsoft Windows has the lion share of the market. However, the usability of Apple Mac OS X trumps the status quo for some. After many decades of using and many years programming with Microsoft Windows I switched to Mac OS X in 2010. My main computer is now an Apple MacBook, and I love it. I could go on and on as to why I love my MacBook, but we don’t want to get distracted right?
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