Get Ready For 2011


If you haven’t been keeping up with the changes in the Internet Industry – let me be the one to tell you that 2010 brought about MANY, MANY changes. In 2010: 1) Google changed their algorithim 300 times.  That means they tweaked and changed the rules of how websites are indexed 300 times.  They plan [...]

Still Not On The Internet – Really?


I love the Saturday Night skits “Really!?! with Seth and Amy” – they’re funny yes, but they give a great perspective on situations.   Gotta love that NY type of humor! I just read in ClimbTheNet.com that a research by a private business forum showed “…that 1 in 5 businesses do not have a website and [...]

A Glimpse of Tomorrow’s Customers


For many years I lived in South Florida and for many years, while I was there, I often visited the Riverwalk in Ft Lauderdale.  If you’re not familiar with the area, it’s a busy street of shops, bars, restaurants along the New River in Broward County.  There are usually several bands playing, lots of folks [...]

Working In The Clouds


Have you heard the phrase “cloud computing”? Here’s a great video explaining what Cloud Computing is. The concept is that instead of having programs on your hard drive, the programs are sitting on a computer somewhere else.  A good example is Google Docs.  Instead of using Microsoft Word or WordPerfect to write your letters, etc. [...]

Twitter Fever


Seems the world has been abuzz about Twitter for months now.  It’s not only on blogs and forums, but on “regular” media as well.  CNN was (I think) the first to introduce Twitter Tweets in their newscast.  I remember watching Rick Sanchez giving a report and in the midst of his report he checked his [...]

SEO and Small Businesses


With the recession in a holding pattern, at least it seems that way, the emails and phone calls we’re getting in here at Eckweb Designs, Inc. are coming from a large variety of businesses, small and big. It used to be we would only get contacted by small or very small businesses.  But in the [...]