I just recently activated a Google Voice number, and wondered how I can start using it as part of my work. It's free (for now), it's easy to setup, it's super cool how they allow you to browse and choose from dozens of phone numbers in your area code - but it's tied to the computer. Or so I thought.
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Sharing what I know on web design, search engines, technology, hosting, and more.
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Aug
20Google Voice As Office Phone
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Feb
08CSS3 in IE with PIE
Read More »Internet Explorer takes a lot of heat over the years (in the web building world) for its lack of support for CSS. It's gotten better with version 7 and version 8, but it still lacks support for the latest version of CSS (CSS 3). Some popular features that CSS3 introduces to browsers like Firefox and Safari and Chrome include rounded corners and drop shadows. These are both time-savers and filesize/bandwidth savers for web pages. Because of Internet Explorer's popularity, these new CSS3 rules have been largely ignored. Why use them if a majority of site visitors can't see them?
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Nov
18Don't Forget to Update Your Online Terms
Read More »I was just filling out a review of an online store, for a service called resellerratings.com, and I decide to briefly scroll through the Terms I was agreeing to, in order to post my review. Looks at terms of agreement isn't something I usually do, by the way, and I'm sure most of us do not. But something really struck me from their terms, located right at the top of the agreement:
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Aug
18Using Plain Old Text
Read More »When putting together content for your site, try to present your written words in plain old HTML-based text. This would seem to be the obvious choice, but it’s not always the case.
When gathering content together for a new or redesigned website, information is often created and/or found inside a variety of proprietary formats (e.g. Word, Power Point, Publisher, etc. ) and exported for the website as a PDF. Choosing the PDF format allows users to keep the same page layout documents were created in, without having to recreate it in a web page. It’s a quick and easy method to publish information online.
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Jul
20Software Roundup
Read More »Time for a quick roundup of some of my current favorite tools, starting with software. In future posts, I'll showcase some online tools and other useful utilities.
The overriding theme to these tools is that they are useful, cheap or free, and accessible wherever you go, by phone app or computer. You may have never heard of these, or they may be so obvious you've already moved on to the next thing. Let me know if you find them useful, have other suggestions, or comments on what I've found.
