| LED Digest 2071: Alexa Listings, CMS Solutions, and more |
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================================================== The LED Digest Moderated Discussion List "Effective Online Advertising, Since 1997" pair Networks: The LED's Web Host Hosting and Domain Reg. from a Trusted Leader pair.com for Hosting | pairNIC.com for Domains ================================================== List Moderator: Published by: Adam Audette LED Digest adam, led-digest.com http://www.led-digest.com .............................................. January 10, 2006 Issue #2071 .............................................. .....IN THIS DIGEST..... ======= NEW ==================== --== Rectifying Alexa Listings ==-- ~ Dave Mead "My website is listed in Alexa, but not under my name or my website!" --== Commercial Content Management Systems? ==-- ~ Laura C. Teeple "In particular, I'm researching CMS products that have the following..." ==== CONTINUING ================= --== Learning In This Enviroment ==-- ~ Beth Earle "You need to read everything that's out there and decide what's right for your client..." ~ Sheryl Coppenger "Take what seems to fit your needs, and leave the rest." --== Voice Over IP Technology ==-- ~ David Spahr "Vonage...is not available everywhere." --== Screen Display Sizing ==-- ~ Kris Driessen "...people occasionally print from websites!" ~ Veronica Yuill "You're probably thinking of Browsercam..." ~ Andreas Huttenrauch "What we use these days is browsercam..." --== The Good, Bad, and Ugly in Site Design ==-- ~ Tom Aman "Your comments show just how meaningless some Web 'awards' can be." ==== BILLBOARD =================== --== Internet Radio -- ~ Michael Martinez =========== NEW ================================== From: Dave Mead Subject: Anyone been able to rectify a wrong Alexa listing? My website (www.dmwebsites.com) is listed in Alexa, but not under my name or my website! Do a lookup and you'll see my predicament. It comes up as Comeclickbuy.com but with my screen shot. This has been going on for sometime, years in fact and I've never been able to get it resolved. I've emailed Alexa and the person that is listed as the "owner" who doesn't even have his site up last time I looked. If anyone can shed light on who to contact I would be most appreciative. I'd like 2006 to be the year I get a lot of these niggling little things sorted. Thanks, Dave Mead DMWebsites.com Website Design | SEO | Consulting ------- new post - new topic -------- From: Laura Teeple Subject: Commercial CMS products Hi fellow LEDers. I would like to seek out other's experiences using commercial CMS products. In particular, I'm researching CMS products that have the following: - Update capability for 20 to 30 people for specific areas of the site. - Multi-level access control. - Multi-stage publishing (a writer posts an update, which is viewable on a test environment, the editor approves and publishes to production). - Logs. Thanks, Laura C. Teeple Queen's School of Business http://business.queensu.ca ======== CONTINUING =============================== From: Beth Ann Earle Subject: Learning > I am having a hard time learning in this environment. > Too many ideas and opinions expressed here are > leaving me feeling paralyzed. If we don't reach > consensus, it's all babble... - Salem Kashou, LED 2070 Sorry, Salem, but there really isn't any consensus, which is one of the really cool, albeit frustrating, things about the web. While there are some obvious no-nos, there's also a relatively wide swath of what's right, depending on the goals, tastes and concerns of the site owner and site visitors. You need to read everything that's out there and decide what's right for your client, based on that client's needs and wants. Don't think of it as paralyzing ... think of it as freeing. You've got the skills and the intellect -- and the opportunity to select what should work best. It really is a pretty cool concept. With warm regards for the New Year to you and all the LED'ers, Beth Earle Polysort LLC ------- new post - same topic ------- From: Sheryl Coppenger Subject: Learning > Too many ideas and opinions expressed here are > leaving me feeling paralyzed. If we don't reach > consensus, it's all babble... - Salem Kashou, LED 2070 I disagree. No one technique will suit all of us, and we're not a standards committee. Take what seems to fit your needs, and leave the rest. > How can we refocus and consolidate all the good points > so that we can quickly determine how to proceed with > certain web development strategies? I'd hate to be a > beginner using this forum... A forum can't be all things to all people. Everyone has some holes in their experience and needs some simple explanation occasionally, but IMO if a beginner can't get anything out of the discussion here maybe he should find a newbie forum someplace and come back when he's "grown up" a little more professionally. Just my $.02. Sheryl Coppenger ------- new post - new topic ------- From: David Spahr Subject: VoIP > Vonage has been great. Mostly... But you can call > and actually speak to a real person within seconds. - Steven Rothberg, LED 2070 Vonage and other services such as inter-office intercom may be the next coming thing if you can get it. It is not available everywhere. I have broadband service but it is not available where I live. David Spahr Stereoviews.com antique-photography.com ------- new post - new topic ------- From: Kris Driessen Subject: Website Size Re: display size One thing no one has mentioned -- people occasionally print from websites! I changed the design of my site *real* quick when I noticed how many people came in my shop with printouts in their hands. Kris Driessen ------- new post - same topic ------- From: Veronica Yuill Subject: Display size > ... there used to be a web site that would... > show you what your creations looked like > on different platforms. It was very low tech. - Rick McLean, LED 2070 You're probably thinking of Browsercam, Rick: http://www.browsercam.com/ It's no longer cheap -- a month's access is $59.95, or you can have a single day for $19.95! But increasingly web developers are setting up group memberships to spread the cost -- an anunal mebership at $400 can be shared with up to 10 users. Regards Veronica Yuill Archetype IT http://www.archetype-it.com/thebackburner/ ------- new post - same topic ------- From: Andreas Huttenrauch Subject: Display size What we use these days is http://www.browsercam.com. It's the most economical way to do basic testing of a website in various environments without having to shell out for the equipment. These days it also does real captures, so it looks a little better than a cam frame. Andreas Huttenrauch Globi Web Solutions http://www.globi.ca ------- new post - new topic ------- From: Tom Aman Subject: Good bad ugly > When I checked for the Golden Web Award Web site, > it no longer exists. I attempted to call Alexis Carter, owner > of the site and the phone number is disconnected. > Don't know what happened to Alexis, but hope all is well. - Lee Roberts, LED 2070 Interesting! When I sent in my original post (Jan 4), the Golden Web Award Web site was still functioning (as well as the IAWMD.com site, if I remember correctly). Your further comments show just how meaningless some Web "awards" can be. I didn't know this a background about the award, but I did wonder about what it took to win one (sounds like not much). I do remember hearing comments a long time ago that very often sites that won awards were often showing off the latest and greatest but were not necessarily very user friendly. > The splash page is old-school - couldn't with > the audio since I don't use speakers on > computers... The site needs a total redesign... Lee, the audio on the splash page is the sound of a waterfall (to go with the moving image), the next page plays "Dance of the Sugarplum fairy" for the Nutcracker Suite. Both are cute the first time through but rapidly become very annoying. Glad to see your reaction to the site design / layout matched mine. Tom Aman Aman Software http://www.cyberspyder.com ==== BILLBOARD =================================== From: Michael Martinez Subject: Internet radio > I have a client who wants to start an Internet radio station... > Does anyone have any previous experience or info to share? - Jennifer Thomas, LED 2070 Podcasting is probably the solution your client wants to look into. Here are a few resources: http://www.podcast.net/ http://www.podcastingnews.com/ http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/ http://podcasts.yahoo.com/ http://www.podcastalley.com/ Michael Martinez, Author Understanding Middle-earth, Parma Endorion, and Visualizing Middle-earth http://www.michael-martinez.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- The LED Digest is sponsored by pair Networks: pair.com for Hosting | pairNIC.com for Domains Copyright 1995-2006 Orange Wheel, LLC. All Rights Reserved. "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." - Bible |
