Author Archives: Ron Boyd

WordPress Themes

10 June, 2010 – 6:32 pm

Good article on WordPress, specifically using and tweeking themes. Orionsweb has been using the power of WordPress as a CMS now for several years to our clients’ great acclaim! The following article is aimed more at designers looking to use wordpress in their and their clients’ sites, but there is still value to the end [...]

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Alt Attribute – article from SEOWorkers

29 April, 2010 – 2:39 pm

Excellent article written by my friend and collaborator, John S. Britsios from SEO Workers. Well worth the read as it goes beyond the basics I laid out in my article compairing the alt and title attributes and gives readers specific details on how it [alt] should be properly used within a website. Alt Attribute & [...]

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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

24 December, 2009 – 9:09 pm

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Firefox 3.6 Beta Released Oct 30th

31 October, 2009 – 12:50 pm

Newest Firefox Beta release is out! Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Beta Release Notes. Some of the new features are: available in over 50 languages You can change how FireFox looks using Personas in only one click! Alert for plugins that are out of date Video can now be displayed full screen, and there’s now support for [...]

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marciesmusings.wordpress.com

27 October, 2009 – 10:26 am

Marcie Somers is a Marketing Professional who loves to write and is very good at it! Marcie was referred to me and over the period of about a month I coached her through starting her first blog! In addition to coaching I also helped our with some graphic customization, and set up as well as [...]

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Why Usability is An Important Part Of SEO

23 October, 2009 – 1:23 pm

Awesome article regarding usability: Why Usability An Important Part Of SEO . I’m constantly blown away by complicated layouts that seem to say to the site visitor.. get outta here we don’t actually want you looking at what’s in our site!.. The above article gives us yet one more reason to make sure our sites [...]

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Another moment in bad twittiquette

18 August, 2009 – 10:44 am

<pulls out soapbox, steps up on top, begins rant…> I am TOTALLY blown away by how inconsiderate so many tweeple can be! The eternal optimist in me wants to assume that their rudeness is nothing more than ignorance in disguise. What’s got me in a kerfuffle you might ask? Let me give you the scenario, [...]

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Blackberry vs iPhone

11 August, 2009 – 11:39 am

As anyone who knows me could tell you, last week I finally took possession of my first smart phone, a BlackBerry Tour 9630. The journey to my BlackBerry was a long one and at times confusing! For some background: I had recently laid to rest my 5th PDA, an HP iPAQ running Windows Mobile. Prior [...]

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Marketing 101 – English Teacher in Japan reminds us it’s not hard | Smith’s School of English Soap Box

3 August, 2009 – 10:37 pm

Love this short article by an English Teaching Franchise Owner in Japan. The majority of us get soooo hung up on Marketing online, that we often overlook the simple marketing things that have worked for all businesses for millennium! A nice surprise at my sports club | Smith’s School of English Soap Box. Way to [...]

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Don’t be a twanker: twitiquette

30 July, 2009 – 6:59 am

Read a great article today @ CTV.ca: CTV.ca | Don’t be a twanker: Common sense should rule with Twitter. The adage of don’t complain cause no one wants to listen, has, does and will always apply in any social setting, including online social media. A rant or pet peeve is one thing, but simply whining [...]

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