Knowledge and tools for the small business owner and eCommerce webmaster.

Catalog Choice - Reduce Unwanted Junk Mail

Ages ago, I ordered something from a catalog, knowing that I would regret it. I paid $11.95 to ship a $4.95 item and said to myself, ‘Just this once, and I’ll never order from them again.’ After that, the catalog onslaught began. Now I receive a catalog from this company about every two weeks.
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The Importance of HTML Image Tags for SEO

Judge Marilyn Patel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has approved a class action lawsuit against Target Corporation for not using HTML alt tags on their website images. About a year ago, a blind student in California sued Target.com, asserting that the retail giant’s website is inaccessible to the blind. […]

Password Management

My husband works in a supervisory capacity in a manufacturing shop. Most of their day-to-day production tracking requires spreadsheets and other computerized reporting tools. He was never issued a password and neither was his boss, so for years both used the passwords of other employees. It didn’t take long before both men realized that the […]

YouTube A Virus Threat?

My local paper reported on Internet security threats today, describing the creative new ways hackers are spreading malicious code. The article, “Hackers find new ways to spread spam, viruses,” describes the threat of malicious code embedded in online video players, according to a report released today by the Georgia Tech Information Security Center as it […]