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How To: Make Your Website Look Like A Linux Terminal

by Jeff Weisbein August 1, 2011

Have you seen my personal site JeffWeisbein.com yet? No? Go ahead, check it out. I’ll give you a minute or so. Alright, you’re back now. So now you are probably wondering how you can create a website similar to that one. Luckily, it’s fairly easy. All you need to do is copy the source code on JeffWeisbein.com, copy a text file, make a few minor modifications to both the source code and the text file, and then upload the documents to your web server.

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Google Plus: I’m Really Not Impressed

by Mike Mansell July 20, 2011

Let me start out this post by saying that Facebook is far from perfect. Back in September I expressed my growing frustration with the social network that at the time was being riddled with levels of spam that many like myself deemed simply unacceptable. And while I still think that Facebook has a lot of room to grow and that there are definitely improvements to be made, I must say that the social network is heading in an alright direction in my eyes.

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MySpace Sells for $35 Million

by Mike Mansell June 30, 2011

It’s amazing how quickly things in life can change. Just a few short years ago social networking website MySpace was legendary and considered hip amongst the younger generation. Really, I remember a time when you would meet a person in line at a grocery store, and instead of swapping mobile numbers or even email addresses [...]

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Google Announces Instant Pages, Voice Search, and Image Search

by Jeff Weisbein June 14, 2011

Today, Google announced several new features in their quest to enrich people’s search for information on the Internet. At its Inside Search event in San Francisco, Google showed off Instant Pages, voice search (on the desktop), and a new kind of image search. All of which look very cool and innovative.

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Make Awesome Website Even More Awesome? Challenge Accepted.

by Jeff Weisbein May 25, 2011

I’m not one who likes to rest on their laurels which is why I’m constantly looking for ways to improve everything I do. Of course, that includes BestTechie. So I’ve contracted an excellent web developer to make some awesome revisions to BestTechie. Now, I like the current (overall) design of the site, I think it fits and works well, but that’s not to say certain things couldn’t be improved.

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Confessions of a WordPress Convert

by Mike Mansell August 17, 2010

When one surfs the Internet and visits websites, it is a rare occurrence for that person to consider how the websites they visit are managed and designed. Sure, people will sometimes ask themselves how sites work and how the people behind the site manage it, but not many know the amount of effort that it [...]

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How To: Setup Google Analytics

by Mike Mansell August 6, 2010

In my recent article series entitled “Why You’re Not Gettin’ Any”, I discussed why websites do not generate their full potential in terms of traffic and profit. Hands down, the most important aspect of this was the concept of gaining more visitors to your site. After all, visitors are ultimately the key to getting higher [...]

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How To: Value Your Website

by Jeff Weisbein February 20, 2010

I have received this question a few times, “how much is my website worth?” and one of the most common misconceptions is to base your websites worth on traffic statistics alone. There are several other factors aside from size, traffic, ranks, etc that need to be included in the mix when determining the worth of [...]

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