Wayne Kessler

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• Posted Testing out ClixTrac to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  I need a banner management system.  Well see how ClixTrac works out......
• Posted LegalZoom to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  My wife and I did our wills a few days ago on LegalZoom.  Pretty darn easy - which impresses me....
• Posted Creating a Business Facebook Page to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  Apparently Facebook should make it a bit easier to figure out how to create such a page, since I do get asked about this by small business owners pretty regularly.  Do a little prep to start out with...  you should...
• Posted We're Sponsoring a Youth Softball Team This Year to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  And in this league, every player gets a uniform shirt with the sponsor's logo or text on it.  Our family has participated in this league for several years now, and I have not seen a team go with simply a...
• Posted Death of Personal Blogs? to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  I don't think it's the death, but there's definitely a continuation of the evolution.  In the end, it comes down to the relationship of the content to the content management system and content delivery system a person wishes to use...
• Posted Really, You're A Search Engine Optimization Specialist? to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  If what you are doing is clogging bulletin boards and blog comments with your supposedly valuable links, then you're pretty much just a spammer....
• Posted I Wonder How Much GoDaddy.com Paid Danica Patrick to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  Whatever it was, I doubt it was enough.  Going through life with the very public perception that you'll sell out to even the most pathetic companies/campaigns known to humanity is tough when you're that young and were likely have options...
• Posted Hey, Some Dumb-Ass Probably Just Sent You An Attempt To Give You A Virus to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  and it starts with "Hey, some jerk has posted your pictures (u understand what kind of pictures are there)"...Don't click the email link....
• Posted The Internet Archive Wayback Machine to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  If you haven't seen this site, you should check it out, bookmark it and hope that it is continued.  It's an actual web page library of the history of the appearance (and content) of the iterations of web sites, large...
• Posted The Potential Power of a Facebook Comment to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  Last Wednesday, I made a snide remark about the 15-minute fame of "Pants on the Ground" as an update on Facebook.  I make snide or silly remarks on Facebook all the time, no big deal.At about the same time a...
• Posted It's very surprising how many domains accidentally expire... to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  Each registrar has different procedures, but the basic premise is, if the domain registration isn't paid up, the domain will go back on the market, and if you still need it after it is expired for a short period...
• Posted I'm sorry, but... to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  No, being 1 of 100,000 businesses to make Google's Favorite Places is not newsworthy. Being one of those businesses, I understand that.  Very surprising to me that any news publication would consider it newsworthy.  It is Google marketing....
• Posted Portrait of a Discontinued Blog to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  I stopped a previous, 5 year blogging effort about politics and society over a year ago, on December 31, 2008 - however, the hosting still remained (although it appears to finally have disappeared into the netherworld now). Interesting to see...
• Posted Even Google Makes Administrative Mistakes to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  Human error is ubiquitous:We recently sent you a version of your monthly Local Business Center newsletter that may have contained some incorrect business listing statistics -- our apologies. Shortly after sending out the email, we realized that there was a...
• Posted Dead Government Links to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  Redesigns can be a pain, especially when taking all the old addresses on the site and establishing new addresses, providing browser relocations, etc.  But government entities - especially state and higher level agency web sites - ought to realize that...
• Posted The Slow Death of USPS Mailed Christmas Cards to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  The trend is continuing this year:The sour economy and Internet technology have contributed to a drop in the mailing of holidays cards so far this season, the U.S. Postal Service said.During the first two weeks of December, the agency saw...
• Posted Pair.net to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  Selecting a web hosting arrangement is very dependent on what features the site will utilize, and perhaps grow into.  However, as a 13 year customer of Pair.net, I have to say it's hard to beat them in terms of service,...
• Posted Email Discussion Groups to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  Sometimes the biggest thanks one can get as a web developer happens after the web developer sets parameters - aka limits - on the areas of email content in a group email discussion group.  Sometimes people need someone to stand...
• Posted This isn't REALLY a technology post... to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  But more of an aside about cost and value.  I received an email from ExhibitTrader.com, which is a marketplace of convention/conference exhibit products, including used items.  What really surprised me was the dropoff in used price from original price for...
• Posted The Silly Things Technorati Wants You To Do to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  XXDMYMWKY93S...
• Posted Credit Card Expiration Dates Are Archaic to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  This post strikes close to home. At a time when continuing subscriptions and online payments require a seamless stream of payment, the credit card expiration date needs to be replaced as a practice by credit card companies.  I'm sure there...
• Posted TypePad to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  Did they send out any notice that they were changing over from a Member Name login format to an Email Address login format?  I don't recall ever getting any notification of this, and I'm usually very attentive to system notices...
• Posted HTML Email Newsletters to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  I was doing a little checking for a client that wishes to email 1000 members a monthly newsletter in html format using an email management service.  Based on the assumption that it would be ONLY 1000 emails sent per month,...
• Posted Sound Search Engine to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  It seems a little odd to me.  The web has many, many specialized search engines, and often they are quite good.  But I can't seem to find a better, more useful Sound Search Engine than FindSounds, which is quite limited. ...
• Posted Expiring Credit Cards and Online Service Subscriptions to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  For anyone who subscribes to online services for a long time and pays with a credit card, they run into a small issue: when credit cards expire, you receive a new one, and sometimes the account number changes, and the...
• Posted Tweeting about Pennsylvania State Government to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  Activity, and interest, have dropped off since the budget deal was finished....
• Posted Great Idea: A Toll Road Calculator to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  Would love to see a web site in which I can go plug in departure and arrival points, at which point it maps out the journey, and identifies the amount of tolls for each stretch of road applicable, and whether...
• Posted Most HOAs Need a Web Site to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  Most Home Owner Associations (HOAs to the uninitiated) need web sites.  Clearly most associations need a web site, they are currently stressed by today's economy to reduce costs and by today's technology to decrease the delivery time of information. ...
• Posted Free Web Server Space to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  There are exceptions, but in general for a real, existing, planning-to-exist-for-a-while organization, going with a free web server provider is a kind of a dumb way to go.  Be the customer.  That's the only way you can expect accountability....
• Posted Twitter-Driven Content Sites to 7Wonders, a web development blog by Kessler Freedman, Inc.
  When you do a web site primarily of Twitter "tweets", you get visitors of searchers of various Twitter "authors".  That's what we see on IAmNoLobbyistBut.com......