All too often, web designs can seem a bit sterile and clinical, but a bit of texture can go a long way towards alleviating this problem. You aren’t cold; your blog needn’t be either.
Mixing crop circles and letterpress styling give Artistic a warm but comfortable look.
Web host 1&1 released the results of a new study and it shines light on a great opportunity for web developers, designers, and hosts. Here are a few of the more interesting points:
The other 40% is just waiting to be tapped. 1&1 defined their size as businesses with fewer then 50 employees. The best census data I can find is from 2004, but it shows a bit over 5 million business in that range at the time. Even with the economy in the tank, the number must still be at least half that. So, call it 2.5 million businesses. 40% of them are still not online, leaving a cool million potential clients out there. Get selling, folks.
Microsoft and Yahoo have been doing the partnership dance for a while now. It was almost 18 months ago that it looked to all the world like Microsoft was going to just buy Yahoo. Of course, Yahoo didn’t go for the deal and their stock tanked and we’ve been in a three-way race ever since. Yahoo has sputtered along without doing much new. They released Yahoo Buzz, but it doesn’t seem to have generated nearly the “buzz” that they had likely hoped. Microsoft on the other hand has release Bing, which has generated lots of noise and put Microsoft back on the search map.
Now a new deal is supposed to be announced that will make Bing the default search engine on Yahoo. This is not the first time Yahoo has changed engines. At first, they had their own search, which just searched their directory (remember their directory? no?). A little later, they partnered with and eventually bought Alta Vista. Then they partnered with Google for a while. After it became clear that Google was kicking their butt, they partnered with and eventually bought Inktomi. And now they are looking to partner with Microsoft. You can’t say Yahoo isn’t trying to do well at search. The problem is they always seem to look outside the company for answers.
Okay, enough history. What does this mean for you and your web site? Well, I have good news and bad news.
Being the geek that I am, I buy a lot of stuff online. This weekend I snagged an hard drive caddy for my HP laptop on eBay, made necessary because HP sells them for the extraordinary and extortionary price of $145. The whole laptop only cost me $613!
In any case, I ordered the part for $20 on eBay and was pleased when I got my UPS Quantum View email telling me at had been shipped. When I when to check on where it was, I became less pleased as it said the package had been delivered already to Houston. I live in Pittsburgh. So, I started swearing and panicking and trying to figure out where on earth they put a Houston address to my name. [read more]
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