Liquid VS Fixed Layout Debate in Modern Web Design

For the last 10 years the question of whether to use fixed or liquid layouts when designing a website has raged on in the web design world, with major design players on both sides of the proverbial fence. Recently though, as screen resolutions have increased dramatically, fixed layouts have all but replaced liquid, but there are still come major advantages to a liquid layout if…

Tips For Dealing With Stranger Danger 2.0

When I was a kid cautionary tales usually involved crossing the street, stranger danger, and scissors. Modern parents are adding anecdotes about MySpace and other social networking sites where strangers transform from shadowy abstract figures in far away communities to hoards of perverts lurking about your living room.

Dinosaurs Merge As Dotcoms Dance

We are entering the era of the Internet Super Company. eBay chief executive Meg Whitman's words to the Financial Times certainly alluded to that path, without admitting to any near-term plans from her company.

Women Entrepreneurs Prove Its Not Just A Man’s World

I had the honor of speaking at a women's business association luncheon on the topic of entrepreneurship. When I mentioned to my wife the day before that I was speaking to group of women entrepreneurs she asked, "Why on earth would they ask you to speak?" In her defense, my dear wife has no idea what I do for a living.