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by Tom Davis

Wow. This is a wonderful success story. Lynda Weinman started doing what she did well and managed to keep it getting better and growing.

by Tom Davis

If your website has a significant amount of mobile visitors, you better be serving up a mobile friendly site if you want to keep up with your competition.

by Tom Davis

Last month the Wall Street Journal reported that J.C. Penney is bringing back printed catalogs after a five year absence. It was nice to see that they actually did a little research to find out motivated buyers, regardless of where they actually made their transaction. I think that before they were acting out of fear, and hoping to drop a huge cost.

by Tom Davis

Facebook likes to do fun things for its users, and generally it does want to protect its users. But as social media gets more fully integrated into our culture, things that were once fun and easy get more serious and harder to do. (This is my daily experience with building websites these days.)

by Tom Davis

Finally Facebook does something for users. This may actually be the best reason to let Facebook manage my news feed. I wish them great success. But it will really take me and you resisting the urge to click. (but this is not click bait, so go ahead and click now)

by Tom Davis

The Heartbleed bug has revealed how little most people know about the underpinnings of the World Wide Web. I have seen several articles where the reporter is astonished at how few people are involved in creating something like the OpenSSL software that is the center of the Heartbleed story. Their articles take on a tone of scandal. Why? Because up to now they viewed the Web as magic — and free (free as in money). Like most people they never asked questions about the software they use.

by Tom Davis

Why would my little website need "maintenance"? This is a truly naive question that has so many answers, but the news is highlighting two big reasons. One, if you live in a bad neighborhood you need to keep checking your locks. The Web is about as bad as neighborhoods get. Two, if you use an installation of Wordpress (or just about any other blogging or content management system) you have locks that are getting broken every day.