Gary Klingsheim

Is Your Site Design "Working"?

Artists are different. This has been true since cavemen began doodling on cave walls. Today it is a cliché to call artists eccentric or odd, and it bears repeating that there's a bell curve to everything, so some artists are pretty much normal folks (pret... Read >

The Relevance of the Web in the Face of Apps

An August article in Wired Magazine suggested the web is dead in favor of the thousands of apps individuals use each day on tablet PCs, smartphones, and the like. The problem here is fairly clear. The web is far from dead given the overwhelming growth of ... Read >

The Basics of Managed Website Hosting

There are many different options available today for web hosting. For the newcomer in the industry, the technical terms can be quite confusing. Managed hosting plans and dedicated servers are just a few of these technical terms. Web hosting refers to the ... Read >

Moving Toward Ecommerce Site Design

Ecommerce has been a major player in the retail market place for more than a decade now. Initially invented in 1979 by Michael Aldridge, a British entrepreneur, the trend only exploded with the widespread popularity of the internet. Industry statistics th... Read >

The Basics of Using Social Networks to Promote Your Site

Social networking and social media are some of the biggest buzzwords in the internet industry today. No web designer or website owner can ignore the importance of social media or underestimate its value to a business.  Through social media, the Internet h... Read >

An App or a .Mobi site? Which is Better for your Company?

Mobile apps are almost as important as mobile sites these days, and if you have to choose between the two, you may have a bit of a rough time deciding which direction will best support the needs of your company. The idea of both is certainly an appealing ... Read >

The Basics of e-Commerce

The term "e-commerce" refers to any business that buys and sells products or services online. Typically, a website will have a database of products or services and features where customers can browse through and select different items to purchase. Once pa... Read >

Back to Basics: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Every Business

At its most basic, the idea behind Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is to put great content on a Web site whose great programming and strategies will attract interested parties and links. There is a huge range of possible outcomes depending on how you do ... Read >

A Primer on Search Engine Optimization

The most important thing to remember about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is that search engines are not human beings. If you project your usual thinking into this process you will never get on track with effective SEO. Search engines are text- and link... Read >

Techno-Empowerment: Computer Maintenance for Non-Techies

To be a computer user in the 1970s and into the early 1980s required you to be if not a programmer at least knowledgeable enough to tell the PC what to do on the command line that was the entire interface. Artists and other creatives were not able to use ... Read >

Mobile Web Trends and Best Practices – The Very Real Opportunity for Re-invention – Part 2

Now is the time to strengthen your branding or re-invent it to capture a bustling and entirely open market that began in 2006 advent of the .mobi top level domain. Yes, a whole new territory opened for quick commercial ties and a vital real-time connecti... Read >

Behind the Apple-Adobe Flash Battles

Apple’s decision to leave Flash support conspicuously absent from its newly-named iOS, the operating system for its insanely popular iPhone and iPad, has created a strange situation. Adobe, owner of Flash, sells a lot of Macintosh software and in any ... Read >

3 Major Web Design Challenges of the Future

3 Major Web Design Challenges of the Future With a title like this, one might think that there is a consensus among computer, networking and communications professionals as to what these three challenges are. This is not the case, of course. There ar... Read >

Does the Macintosh Have a Split Personality?

Does the Macintosh Have a Split Personality? In the early days of personal computers, the Macintosh with its revolutionary point-and-click, desktop metaphor and Graphical User Interface (GUI) was marketed as the easy-to-use alternative to the blinkin... Read >

An Introduction to Web 3.0

An Introduction to Web 3.0  People are still trying to make the most of the new-and-improved features that came out in Web 2.0, and here we are all talking about Web 3.0 and even newer and more improved features. This is the way of the Internet Age, ... Read >