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Copywriting for Installers
We all have our own nightmare stories of installation gone wrong. I’m not talking carpeting or kitchen cabinets. I’m talking about installing software. David Pogue, the technology guru for the New York Times, talks about trying to install software for some new fancy 802n routers – article here. Bottom line: the UI is so confusing, [...]
Read moreHow to SEO your own Home Page
Part of our mission here at OCDC is explaining the web to digital immigrants such as ourselves. Search was a 6 billion dollar business in 2006 and is projected to grow at 12% in 2007. Over 1/3 of all purchases of goods and services starts with an internet search. Optimizing your Home Page for natural [...]
Read moreWhat is Web 2.0 Design?
We all know when see a website that looks a wee bit “1999.” Lots of tables and no CSS; a relic of the bad-old dial-up days. Design firms are going to have a very good next couple of years updating all those static Web 1.0 silos. Here at OCDC, we were recently discussing just such [...]
Read moreHandy utilities for the online writer
When we first installed WordPress, it came with some links pre-loaded in the blogroll. The first link was for a gent named Alex King, a software developer who co-founded Feedlounge. Turns out there’s lots of great info on this site; we especially liked Alex’s favorite utilities and add-ons for Mac & Windows. Lots of people [...]
Read moreHiding Your Email Address from Spambots
Ted Vaden, the Public Editor of the News & Observer, blogged last week about a Do-Not-Deliver registry for (junk) phone books akin to the Do-Not-Call registry for Spam Phone Calls. How about junk email? The Washington Post estimated in 2003 that junk email cost U.S. businesses over $10 billion in wasted time, server space and [...]
Read moreGetting your blog indexed by Yahoo
Here’s a great tip from All About Google Adsense that tells you how to quickly and easily get your blog indexed by Yahoo. No code, no programming – here at Online Copywriter, we love that! Basically, you just need a My Yahoo account. Then you configure your homepage content to include your own feed. Presto! [...]
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