Entries by Michael David

Google Secure Search: Enhanced Privacy Tool That Che Guevara Would Love

Today, Google offered a new feature to enhance its already-robust search capabilities: Secure Search. Google is the first major search engine to offer search in a secure setting. Pictured below, the secure search works and looks just like traditional search, but operates on SSL (secure socket layer), and can be found here: https://www.google.com. The “https” […]

SEO Power Tool: Test Your Website’s Load Time

If you haven’t tested your website’s load time–do it now, because Google is going to test it for you. Google has confirmed long ago that webpage load times will be used as a factor in the calculation of its AdWords Quality Score index–meaning that a faster load time can save you money on your AdWords […]

How to Insert Images into WordPress Posts and Pages

How to Insert Images into WordPress Posts and Pages Inserting images into WordPress posts and pages can usually trip up new users–we get asked about this a lot. Once you do it a few times succesfully, though, you’ll feel like a master. What follows is a quick and dirty overview of how to do it. […]

Web Tour: Early Websites of Internet Giants

I like to play around with Way Back Machine – the site that archives screen shots of websites in years past.  We’ve put together a little tour of early versions of now-ubiquitous websites. We think you’ll enjoy this little web tour. So, put on some Pearl Jam (they were hot in 1998) and set your […]