Category Archives: Web

Leo Laporte discusses his website design cost and development time

On a recent episode of The Tech Guy (Show 865: http://twit.tv/show/the-tech-guy/865 at the 34:50 mark)  Leo Laporte discusses the wide range of website costs, development time and the price he’s paying for phase one of The Tech Guy Labs website’s … Continue reading

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Aesthetica Studios Site Launch

Our newly built ecommerce site for Aesthetica Studios has launched. http://bit.ly/thinkaesthetica . It has a super sweet magento filling with an attractive & tasty wordpress topping.

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Google+ gets a +1 after first day of using it

About Google+ I’ve only had one day with it but I like it a lot better than Facebook and I trust Google with my information more than facebook. The circles feature is something that FB has needed for a long … Continue reading

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The Social Media Balancing Act

I recently made this comment to an old friend on LinkedIn and thought I would pop it up as a brief post since it distills an issue we are all facing in just a couple words: For business, we are … Continue reading

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The Phantom Lab’s Newly Redesigned Site is Live

MAD House Graphics was very please to have had the opportunity to work with Fabbros Design of Yorklyn, DE and The Phantom Laboratory, of Salem, NY on this beautiful new website. The Phantom Laboratory produces dependable, high-precision phantoms and innovative … Continue reading

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Why are registrars allowed to prospect for domains?

I recently saw that mhg.org was available from godaddy for $8800. Does anyone else see the conflict of interest here? The organizations that control the domain registry are also domain prospecting. Do you think they might have a unique advantage … Continue reading

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Madhouse’s great big list of important domain extensions

In order of importance to US businesses .com  -  The gTLD (Generic Top Level Domain ) the park avenue address .net   -  gTLD originally meant for groups and communities .org   -  gTLD originally for non-profits and still best-practice to reserve … Continue reading

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Privacy Protection through your registrar

If you own a domain you should maintain forwarders (email address aliases) for your addresses in the public domain record and direct them anywhere necessary. People tend to mistakenly sign up for “Privacy Protection” from their registrar because we all … Continue reading

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Open Letter to Godaddy

You need a good usability expert for your public facing website. The domain manager has improved greatly over the years (albeit somewhat slow). However, getting to the domain manager is a confusing and ever changing experience. Navigation should not be … Continue reading

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Apparently old search engines don’t die

Apparently old search engines don’t die, people just stop using them. Seeing that Cuil.com had gone offline after some of the good work they were doing, and seeing some of the things they are working on at Blekko http://bit.ly/cgDX5E makes … Continue reading

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