Archive | October, 2007

31 October 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Alternative Solutions for Single Sign On?

Does anyone have any ideas on how to accomplish an easy single sign on (SSO) setup?
A little background: SendAlong is built using a sort of spoke and hub architecture – there’s one main server (the hub) and several secondary servers (the spokes). It’s worth mentioning that the secondary servers are far away from [...]

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31 October 2007 ~ 7 Comments

Measure the Marketing Effectiveness of Your Website

I’ve recently stumbled upon www.websitegrader.com – enter your site’s address and the address of a few other competing sites and get a report about how effective your site is at marketing its message.

It takes into consideration metrics like Google Page Rank, number of inbound links, etc (it also shows you those metrics). In the [...]

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29 October 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Can I Get a Slice of that Pie?

My goodness. Who would have thought 10 years ago that $57,000,000.00 could be generated in one year from a little search box in the top corner of a browser?
Oh, I guess they did.

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24 October 2007 ~ 3 Comments

Updated Graphics

Gosh, I hadn’t realized how bad the main SendAlong logo looked until Chris pointed it out to me. After a little reworking, here’s the before and after.

Much better!

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22 October 2007 ~ 1 Comment

Fantastic Post on Marketing Your Business

I’d consider this an absolute must read for anyone in the microISV business (or anyone else trying to sell something): http://microisvjournal.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/developing-linkbait-for-a-non-technical-audience/

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17 October 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Non-invasive CAPTCHA

Here’s a nice noninvasive CAPTCHA (the site seems to be down right now, probably because of Digg).
Basically, add a text input to your form, then use CSS to make it hidden. Unsuspecting spam bots will see it and try to fill it in with some value. Your code can simply reject the form [...]

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17 October 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Theme Reboot

I figured I should try a blog theme other than the Wordpress default. This theme is called Integral and you can get it here.
Perhaps one day I’ll have enough time to make a customized SendAlong theme…but that’s a low priority right now.
BTW, cheers to my four blog subscribers (one of which is me)!

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17 October 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Good Start Up Resource – Startupping.com

I just stumbled upon Startupping.com, which looks to be a good resource for start up information. They have what appear to be some decent looking forums, a nice wiki, and a large list of start up blogs (in OPML format – can be imported into most RSS feed readers). Not to mention I [...]

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14 October 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Juliesoft Home Page

I just posted the new version of the Juliesoft home page. Putting this page together, starting with an idea, fleshing it out in Fireworks, coding the HTML in Eclipse, and uploading to the server took a total of about an hour. Not a bad way to spend time while stuck in the back [...]

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01 October 2007 ~ 0 Comments

The Little Things – Increase Your Branding with a favicon.ico

If you’re not aware, a favicon is the 16×16 pixel image that appears in the URL field of your browser (see it in action right now in your browser’s URL field above). It can be a subtle but effective way of reinforcing the branding of your site to your visitors.
Here’s the one I created [...]

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