Brent Haeseker

Internet Explorer 8 and Site Compatibility

Microsoft just released Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) last week, and we’re already seeing a lot of incompatibility issues with pre-existing websites.  Microsoft is taking a lot of flak on this newest browser due to them touting it as being a standards compliance browser, but it is actually ranking lower in compliance than all the other [...]

How I Planned My New Year

My goal for next year is to not have to worry about coming up with goals.
Seriously, it is kinda fun to plan out your new year, but the typical scenario is we have all these great ideas at the beginning of the year and if we stumble upon those ideas and goals at some point [...]

Evernote – A Handy Tool to Stay Productive

If you are like me you have notes in a million different places, a voice recorder when on the go (that you always forget when you need), a gazillion internet bookmarks, a stack of scribbled note pads and folders in and out of your “My Documents” folder and on 12 different color coded thumb drives.  [...]

Alert! Alert! Somebody Said This About You…

You have spent a lot of time building and protecting your reputation, but do you know what your online reputation is?  Do you know what others are saying about you – good or bad?
There is a number of tools out their that let you find out what others are saying.  At a minimum, be familiar [...]

Your Google Adwords Account is About to Expire

Here is another scam that has been going around recently.
You get an email that appears to be coming from Google telling you your Adwords account needs to be updated or they will have to close it.  Usually, having to do with payment on your credit card not going through.  It first made rounds a few [...]

HelpMegan.org

I have never met her but learned of her through a client of ours that her mother worked for.  She is a young girl who is terminal with cancer.  Her name is Megan and her story is heart breaking.  Please take a moment to visit her website and consider a donation to help her mother [...]

What is Twitter – A Brief Introduction

Twitter.com is a fast growing website in the sea of social media websites.  I’ll be honest in that I didn’t pay it too much attention until more recently – always thought of it as instant message type of service were teenagers talk about who they have a crush on or what they ate for breakfast.  [...]

Domain Name Renewal Letters – Bogus or Legit

Quick, what’s the answer – who is the registrar for your domain name? Network Solutions? Go Daddy? Register.com? Domain Registry of Timbuktu?

Ok, I made the last name up, but if you own a domain name, you probably have received a letter from a company with a similar name telling you you have to renew your [...]

Now Serving Warm and Fuzzies – CharityNavigator.org

Call it getting good Karma or just being nice – nothing makes you feel more warm and fuzzy than giving time or money to a charity.  But, how do you know how much of that money actually goes to the cause in question?  How do you know if they really do what they say they [...]

Google Turns 10

Google, the rulers of planet earth, turns 10 today.  It is amazing that such a young company has risen so far in so little time.  It wasn’t that long ago when it was just one of many search engines that you had to focus SEO efferts on.  Now, it demands the bulk of our time.
In [...]