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March 21, 2008
Ed Kohler Farhad Manjoo has put together an outline of how you can access the online version of the Wall Street Journal without a paid subscription. As Manjoo explains, the WSJ allows public access to paid content when visitors arrive through Google...





October 15, 2007
Ed Kohler Have you ever looked at the profiles of employees within the salesperson section of a company website and come away disappointed? I know I have, and I'm tryign to figure out how to make that a better experience. Generally, here's...





September 24, 2007
Ed Kohler One may think the title of this post is self-evident, but there are enough exceptions to the rule to warrant an explanation. Today's example comes from The New York Sun's website where printable versions are less than print friendly. Here...





January 1, 2007
Ed Kohler Page views have long been the metric of choice for measuring the ad potential of web sites. It's not hard to understand that with every page view comes a group of ads, so the more pages you serve, the more...





October 17, 2006
Ed Kohler Randall McCarley breaks down 13 reasons web sites fail on his 14th Colony blog. "I don?「どィび「t know how many times I?「どィび「ve heard people say that they used to have a web site that didn?「どィび「t do anything. Well, why not? Further...





September 22, 2006
Ed Kohler I've written before about how important it is for real estate agents to provide lots of high quality photos with their real estate listings. Don't waste your prospects or your own time driving people to properties you could easily show...





August 25, 2006
Ed Kohler Seth Godin reflected on the difference between Yahoo and Google's homepages in 1999 and why it mattered during a Feb speach at the Googleplex: "What happened was geeks and nerds and early adopters and people like me: the ones who...





May 22, 2006
Ed Kohler

We launched the Technology Evangelist blog six months ago this past Friday, and have learned a lot about blogging over the past 180+ days. Here are a ten things we learned and/or wish we knew before we started:







May 6, 2006
Ed Kohler

Mike Davidson of Mikeindustries.com and Netvibes.com recently published a thorough analysis of how MySpace could cut their page views by at least 2/3rds by optimizing their page serving using AJAX.







March 28, 2006
Ed Kohler

A few colleagues and I have recently been kicking around thoughts on the benefits of fixed vs. fluid page width for web design. We haven't come to any conclusions on this yet - the issue will probably never be resolved - but thought it would be fun to open the discussion to all of you.







March 22, 2006
Ed Kohler

One of my favorite features on the Google Toolbar is Autofill. I can type my
personal information one time, such as name, email, mailing address, and even
credit card, then input it into applicable forms with one simply click on the
toolbar. This saves time with online shopping, and ensures accuracy in the
forms I fill out. Additionally, Autofill is smart enough to remind
me when I can use it by highlighting fields it recognizes like this:







March 21, 2006
Ed Kohler

Please please please link your web site's logo to your homepage. This is a design convention that should really be mandatory by now.







March 13, 2006
Benjamin J. Higginbotham Our next interview in 'The Innovators' series is with Mr. Frank Gruber. Frank is a hardcore blogger who gives us some fantastic tips on everything from how to start a blog, as well as how to monetize, advertise and get...





March 8, 2006
Ed Kohler

I've received a few inquiries into how I created the tag cloud for this site, and figure it would be easiest to explain how it's done here.







February 15, 2006
Ed Kohler

If you build it, will they come? This is a question worth asking before building a web site. A website built without considering the resources involved in building, maintaining and marketing the site could end up hidden in a lonely corner of the web, falling short of the grand expectations it likely had before launch. To prevent that from happening, I try to picture how the web site will become a part of my business flow before building a single page. Here are a few considerations I've found valuable:







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