Archive for October, 2005

The 5 Most Useless Web Pages Ever.

John Jantsch at Duct Tape Marketing rants on a pet peeve of mine - wasting precious website real estate on useless stuff.
What’s useless?

Flash splash pages….actually, any splash pages whatsoever.
“Welcome” pages.
Pages without headlines or content.
Ambiguous Navigation.
“We-We” sites. (Sites that talk about “Us” instead of how they solve the prospects problems.)

In other words, pages that are bereft […]


Gahoo Yoogle Shows Side by Side Results

This site shows results from searches in Google and Yahoo! — side by side.
http://www.gahooyoogle.com/
Gahoo Yoogle? Hard name for me to get my mouth around!
Regardless, the site performs an easy-to-read, side-by-side comparison of search results from both Google and Yahoo! search engines. Enter once: get side by side results. Easy. Useful.
And I love their tagline: “Search […]


Bookmark This Page

It sounds passe: but the “Bookmark This Page” button or link on your web pages still work phenomenally well for getting additional visitors to your site.
I was cruising a site with interesting information just yesterday…and before I knew what I was doing, I hit the “Bookmark this Page” button. I couldn’t help myself. I followed […]


You say “Monkey Tail”, I say “At Sign”

We see it every day: the humble at sign.
You know what it looks like : @
We use it to designate our email address all the time. But while we English speaking folks call it the “At Sign”, it’s called a whole bunch of different things in different languages. For a complete list, visit http://herodios.com/atsign.html
I do […]