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WebProWorld Members,
I'm not sure how many of you reading this have ever
watched the show, Boston Legal. The series
which is now off the air featured a high stakes
law firm that would take on a wide variety of cases.
There's one particular line that always stuck with
me. It was spoken by Alan Shore (James Spader),
"Trust me, you can sue anyone for anything"
How true and sad that statement is. I'm sure
if you all really wanted to, could find something
to sue me over that I've written in this newsletter.
If you'd like further proof of our lawsuit happy
country, read
this story about how a Chicago woman is being
sued over a tweet.
So, what did she do? Stalk a person? Incriminate
herself by admitting to a crime? -- neither.
She made a joke on Twitter. It's a joke in bad taste
mind you, but still just a goof. Here's her exact
words...
"@JessB123 You should just come anyway.
Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for
you? Horizon realty thinks it's okay."
The company mentioned in the tweet, Horizon realty,
didn't take the statement too friendly. They're
suing JessB123 (Amanda Bonnen) for $50,000. You
might be thinking that Bonnen might have a huge
followers list, or had members of her building following.
Nope, she has 20 followers. And Horizon saw the
cost of that statement at around $50,000.
I sincerely hope that a judge laughs this case right
out of the courtroom. If it doesn't happen then
I'll lose what little faith I had in the justic
system to begin with. Sheesh.
On a lighter note -- if you'd like your voice to
be heard on the rep system for WPW, then
vote on the topic here. The poll is dead even
so it's looking like every vote will count.
The ideas presented in the WebProWorld newsletter
editor's note do not reflect the thoughts, and
ideas of the WebProWorld community.
| JohnnyV
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Graphics & Design Discussion Forum
Web 2.0 Misunderstanding
One of my biggest pet peeves is dealing with clients who misunderstand what "Web 2.0" really means. In many cases they ask me for a "Web 2.0" website, when they really want me to design a website in the "style" of most "Web 2.0" web sites out there right now. Web 2.0 to me, more or less, is a philosophy of constructing a website, not a design-style as many ill-informed clients perceive it to be. As a designer I'm usually reluctant to imitate the styles, but sometimes I have to concede that the "customer is always right" thus I do not make an effort to argue with them on the principle of Web 2.0
Anybody else experience this? Should I clarify to my clients what Web 2.0 really means?
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http://www.dulcemexico.com/
Could you please review this site
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The store could be much better. Here are a few suggestions that I think you should do...
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Search Engine Optimization Forum
duplicate content problem
On my website, I want to refer good articles published
on internet. But I do not want them to leave my site so
I thought of creating a toolbar on top and open the article
inside a iframe at bottom .. something like Apple
and Labels Hope to Reinvent Digital Album as Something
(it will show u digg bar on top ) only on Chrome.
this way, my user remains on my site/domain but still can read the article of external site
My question is - will this count as duplicate content on my domain name ? or may be I can use canonical tag and refer the URL of the actual content source ?
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Google Discussion Forum
Image redirect question
Here is my redirect question and setup…
I have a site where I have a custom redirect page. The SEO cat was excellent and even has the redirect try and find the page you really want. Sweet!!! That works great.
Here is my problem. Some people link back to an image that was on my site. They like the item and there use the picture as a link back to my site. We are e-commerce so any traffic is good traffic. BUT, I moved a number of images, or the products no longer exist and I have taken them off the server.
When someone clicks on that image, the now-broken link does NOT go to my cool custom 404 page but to my cool redirect page but with NO css anything and looks like.. Well $hit!
Any suggestions? If I can make the bad images go to the custom 404 page that would be swell.
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SEO 101
normal seo practices?
I had no idea about building a web site when I started but its not doing too bad. I was talking to a friend that does SEO work and he made me an offer that I'm not sure of.
He said that if I placed the companies Google ads on my page they would pay me a monthly payment, a flat pay amount every month no matter what they got from the Google ads. They would get me advertisers and pay me 20% of the income. The advertisers I have already I would have to give them half of the monies that come in, which isn't much yet. If I decided at any time to stop doing business with them then, if my site was making them good money, they might just make a site similar to mine. They would not have any of my passwords, they would not change my site except for a few little things, I will continue using my own server and the owner ship is all mine.
I have had my site for about 4 years. I get a decent amount of traffic but do not make much moneys. I live off the money my site makes and its usually just enough to survive the month while getting a few tourists here and there.
What I want to know is this a normal practice for a company and what if anything could they do to hurt my page if I did what they ask? I really need more income and this may be the way to do it but I hate to give up my total control over my site when I wrote and made it all and it is getting more and more visitors all the time.
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At Fortune magazine’s Brainstorm Tech conference last week, several large media companies admitted that the future success of advertising would be a result of reaching customers online. Among the companies represented were The Walt Disney Company, AOL, News Corp., and others.
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