Now I’m not sure how many of you bloggers and web developers out there have looked into email marketing. I personally find that the line between good email marketing and spam is a big gray blurry one so I tend to stay away from it. But for you guys who do use email consider plain text emails for the following reasons:
8 reasons why HTML emails will hurt your marketing efforts
Paypal’s website payments is perfect for small sites. You have a few products you want to sell so you don’t want to install a full blown shopping cart or anything. So we use Paypal a great solution but with a few limitations:
Dave writes:
The problem with Paypal buttons is that you are very limited in customisation options for your product. You’re provided with the option of up to two, yes two form fields within which you can store specifics about a product.
Interesting article from the Decentralized Information Group talking about an HTML group which is being developed, whose goals include reinventing HTML as we know it.
Any development of HTML needs to be in minor increments. We’ve seen the movement, or lack there-of, to XHTML. The browsers all worked the same so who really cared, right?
timbl writes:
Some things are clearer with hindsight of several years. It is necessary to evolve HTML incrementally.
mbeltzner Writes:
Apparently, people loves them some Firefox. Within 24 hours of the official launch on Tuesday, there were over 2 million people using Firefox 2, and we were seeing a peak rate of more than 30 downloads per second from our website.
With Firefox being my favorite browser, I can see what all the buzz is about. If this pace keeps up they’ll beat the stats of IE7 with about 3 million in 48 hours.
Jeff Croft Writes:
But there was a mindset created in the 90s that anyone could make a web page. That line of thinking led bosses to direct secretaries and copy editors to produce corporate sites and a whole wave of self-proclaimed “designers” to start selling their services as web professionals.
That is so true. And like Jeff, I was one of them. Fired up my copy of Frontpage or Adobe Go Live and I was good to go.
Peter’s Gekko : Pragmatic OOP in JavaScript
Getting started is no big deal. At first sight you just start typing ahead pretending to write in C#. But there is no compiler or unit testing to validate your work; not until the code is interpreted at run time. As you can do horrible things in JavaScript it does take a lot of discipline to write good code. Also because the language itself is not as strict as C#.
About.com is having a coding competition. Ajax is the topic. So all you Ajax guys out there, this is where you flex your muscles. Give it your best shot, rules at the bottom.
One thing I find funny is that they actually allow the use of third party scripts and libraries. This makes this challenge quite interesting in the sense that developers don’t need to code much from scratch. This allows their real coding skill and creativity to go towards making the application better on a whole.
Well, it’s not really downtime, but I apologize none the less. It just hasn’t been the same since I got back from vacation. I’ve had virtually no time to myself to make any productive posts. There have been issues with school, with computer access, internet access, etc. As a result I decided instead of posting sporadically, I’ll simply wait until I can dedicate the amount of time that needed to this blog.
First off, let me apologize again for the lack of posts, again. Would you believe it? My internet connection was down for an entire week. I almost dug out my eyeballs. And it came up the day before I leave for the second part of my vacation.
The good news is that, this leg should only last a couple days. So I should be back up and posting by Tuesday. I get back on Sunday, but I’m going to need a few days to catch up on stuff.
For those of you who made it to 2006, welcome. I just thought I should mention that up until mid-January, I’ll officially be on vacation on the beautiful island of Dominica. As result of the excessive partying, beaches, and rivers (yes we really do have 365 rivers here) posts are going to be a bit slow. Just thought I should offer a bit of an explanation to my loyal readers. As soon as I’m back in TX, though, things will again be in full swing.