Technically speaking, you can’t use *any* font, only ones you have license to use on the web, because of copyright reasons. Assuming you have said license, you can use both OpenType and TrueType fonts, which opens up a ton more options for typography. You can use any font you want on the web by using [...]

Have you made the switch to Google’s Chrome yet?  It was released into the wild in September 2008.  At that time, heavy net users disliked the lack of extensions available for the new browser.  In the time since, it has developed a very nice ecosystem of extensions which provide great additions to it’s usefulness. It [...]

Google Base is a database that is provided by Google which allows companies or individuals to upload products and make them searchable on the Google search engine so that users can find them easily. A great solution to use this invaluable resource is Google Base. You load your products onto a Google’s database and add [...]

The blogosphere has been in an uproar about Rupert Murdoch’s threats to cut off Google from indexing his News Corp.  I was agreeing with the prevailing mood, that Rupert Murdoch was MAD. After reading the following article, has Rupert Murdoch found a chink in Google’s armor? Rupert Murdoch and the dirty little secret about Google [...]

The latest, greatest Internet craze is social networking—meeting, hanging out, and networking with people of similar interest on the Internet. So what does this have to do with online retailing? Everything! Selling is all about establishing relationships and building trust, and what better way to do it than in social circles? Although many old-school businesspeople have written off social [...]

Link building is an essential ingredient in ranking your website highly on the major search engines. There, now that we’ve got that brilliant grasp of the obvious out of the way let’s move on to what you can do to actually create them. Before we launch into the nitty-gritty of link building, no beginners guide would be complete without [...]

by Ionut Alex Chitu , via the Google Operating System Blog (googlesystem.blogspot.com) In Gmail, every built-in view (inbox, trash, read mail) is actually a label. And since Gmail doesn’t use folders, if you use the service, you’ll end up searching a lot. For example, to view all the unread messages from the inbox, you search [...]

I just ran into this article about the future of computing, and how Google sees it. Very interesting! “A real rival to Windows.” “Google drops a nuclear bomb on Microsoft.” It all sounds so dramatic and exciting, the kind of story we journalists love. But I can’t help feeling most of the coverage of Google’s announcement of its [...]

I want to start this with a little education.  Hits actually tell you how many files are being downloaded from your server. Web pages are composed of many different files.  So when talking about your website statistics, it’s important to understand what number you’re talking about, since the meaning behind that number varies quite a [...]