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Find-A-Sweetheart and the Lovely Popup

Pop quiz: Let me describe a site to you, and you tell me if it should have a pop-up. Here’s the scenario:

Talking at SFU

Friday, I spent a nice morning talking to a class at Simon Fraser University.  I was asked to join Monique Trottier, who was leading a class called “Marketing Magazines Online.”

Despite my own initial confusion about which classroom it was in, I had luckily planned for at least 60 minutes…

Truthdig Needs Those Stinking Badges

The infestation started on blogs, and spread across the internet like diamonds on Elton John’s costumes: tiny icons first spotting the collar line of blog posts, soon shining from the tails of news sites. Now they grace the prestigious brow of Truthdig.com, in elegant dropdown form.

An FTP Hacking Attack

Another client of ours suffered a minor hacking attack, and I thought I’d take a moment to let you know how we think it was done, so you might be able to avoid it yourself.

Susie was editing a client’s site recently (for the purposes of this attack, it doesn’t matter which one) and noticed…

Now Showing on The Lab with Leo Laporte

In the past month, I’ve done three tapings for appearances on a TV show called The Lab with Leo Laporte, a G4 Tech TV show about all things technological. My segment is called “Web Workshop,” and in it I do a lightening fast design and functionality review of user-submitted website. Leo…