What’s related?
Or how to see how you stand on the web in relation to other websites. Neat, although I didn’t find anything I didn’t know about. But if you were looking for something you didn’t know about…TouchGraph GoogleBrowser V1.00
Get a clue!
Here is a good article about “dis-connection” between the existing community on the web and churches (thanks Dean Peters). Basically, church leaders (i.e. pastors) are still looking for “cool” sites for their churches while their members are looking for community.
This fact goes for more than just Church sites. In two projects I’ve been in where we are trying to increase their business, people start worrying more about what the site looks like than what it does. You need to stay off WPTS, but will green or blue really affect your sales? I think people who don’t know how to build a website start focusing on the parts they do understand. That makes for a lot of work for us christian-geeks (or geeks of any faith).
I made Google
Got my first hit from Google yesterday. I’m number nine for searching “marketing blog”. Check it out!
Google Search: “marketing blog”
Getting rid of that silly “image” bar in IE6
Got this hint to add to your webpages from weekly newsletter from www.sitepoint.com
This week’s tip comes to us courtesy of Richard Hayes, of http://www.tm3design.co.uk .
The latest version of Internet Explorer has an image toolbar that appears whenever the mouse is hovered over an image for more than a few seconds. The toolbar presents options for saving, emailing, and printing pictures.
To stop IE’s annoying image toolbar appearing over your images, place the following code between the head & /head tags on your page:
[meta http-equiv=”imagetoolbar” content=”no”] (use GT and LT symbols, not brackets of course)
The above code will disable the image toolbar for every single image on that page. And if you want to disable the image toolbar only for specific images, use the galleryimg attribute for the IMG tag. For example:
[img src=”myPic.gif” galleryimg=”no”]
Getting listed is good
My site’s been listed for years on all the major places. But as I help others (and promote this blog), I need to have a plan on how to get listed. Some kind person has writen the following website.
Free website promotion tutorial – A Promotion Guide
Friday’s Links
This is what I served for dinner tonight. Maybe I was just lucky to have two mangoes and two tomatoes on hand. Well worth it!
Mango Salsa Salmon
INGREDIENTS:
4 (6 ounce) salmon steaks
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 large red onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, peeled and minced
2 tomatoes, diced
1 sprig fresh cilantro, chopped
2 mangos – peeled, seeded, and diced
Directions
1 Preheat the oven broiler. Line a broiler pan with foil.
2 Broil salmon steaks on the prepared pan 12 minutes, or until easily flaked with a fork.
3 Heat olive oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat, and saute onion until tender. Stir in garlic, tomatoes, and cilantro. Cook until heated through, 1 to 2 minutes, and remove from heat. Mix in the mangos. Serve over the salmon steaks.
More about drawing away from print ads
The power of blog
Was doing homework for my ecommerce class and found my citing three different blogs. Thought that was pretty cool. I was asked to write about three opportunities and three threats ecommerce has as the internet grows and becomes global. See the entire assignment.
Opportunities:
1. Reach to more markets and more people
2. Potential to reduce costs
3. Ability to get closer to the customer
Threats:
1. Who will pay for information or services?
2. Will an expanding marketplace stretch companies too thin?
3. Will certain competitors be dominant despite a plethora of alternate sellers?
I’m now listed on DMOZ! Google should start listing my blog soon. Cool!
Open Directory – Regional: North America: United States: Michigan: Localities: G: Grand Rapids: Society and Culture: Personal Homepages
Winning
Read a simple, but potentially life changing article in Men’s Health Magazine over the weekend. The May issue had an article about how “winners” think and act. Winners act as though they are winning, seems to be the core fact. This intimidates others and they allow this person to win. The corralary is also true…that loses are willing to take on that role at the first sign of trouble.
My mind and behavior is already set, although I will be much more concious of when I am winning and losing, and how I am acting. The greater reach is how I can bring the “winning” mindset to my children, without them using it against me!
(Don’t bother going to their website, it is obnoxious and articles are sold, not shared! I wrote comments to the “Web Guy” complaining. We’ll see what happens.)