Isn’t amazing to think that despite the millions of different websites and billions of different web pages that somehow, someway the search engines still manage to find your site? I personally find this to be rather mind-boggling. In fact, it kinda makes my brain hurt just thinking about it.
Searchbot 101
Search engines have programs called searchbots [...]
Spiders, crawlers, robots. Oh My!
My favorite social media apps for the Blackberry
Blackberry apps have come a long way in the last year and I expect they’ll come even further in the next year, but for now here’s a list of my favorite apps.
Facebook
I’m not a huge Facebook person, but if you’re somebody who needs to check on everyone’s status all the time, then this is a [...]
Don’t Fight ‘Em, Join ‘Em
When you’re first starting a blog in a particular niche, you may initially want to look at other the bloggers, in your niche, as competitors and why wouldn’t you? Doesn’t competition basically drive our country’s entire economy and aren’t we competing for our readers attention?
Where that is true, with blogging, it’s a little different. Mainly, [...]
5 Design Objects That Annoy Me
Where there are a lot of really great things designers have come up with to help improve the look and feel of websites there are just as many things that need to go away and never come back. Here are five things that could gracefully disappear into the web abyss and I wouldn’t be sad [...]
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My name is Matthew Bauer and I've been working in the web industry for over 10 years. Professionally, I work full-time as a web developer in Cincinnati, Ohio. Home to Skyline Chili, Nick Lachey and Jerry Springer. For fun, I write this blog. I really enjoy the topics of blogging, social media and design. Where I don't consider myself a designer, it has always fascinated me. I'm not a very serious person. Mostly everything I write is lighthearted in nature.....