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July 2010 (1)
- 20: Making the world better, by building better Web sites: Cleveland GiveCamp (31)
June 2010 (1)
- 29: Content Curation: Learning from others and sharing their knowledge (10)
May 2010 (1)
- 04: Should we stay or should we go? Responding to Ning’s new pricing plans. (9)
April 2010 (1)
- 05: Dust off those pixels: your Web site may be due for spring cleaning. (10)
February 2010 (2)
- 22: 5 years of babbling about the Web: The Web Development Blog celebrates its quinquennial anniversary. (18)
- 08: Listen now. Talk Later. Listening to monitor brands and gain audience insights via social media. (12)
January 2010 (1)
- 07: Top Web Development Blog Entries for 2009 (5)
December 2009 (1)
- 31: How browsable is your blog? (5)
November 2009 (1)
- 17: Blogging as the backbone of a social media strategy (18)
October 2009 (1)
- 15: “Make the Web site bright and shiny.” Bells, whistles and video are only cool if they help you tell your story. Choose carefully. (10)
September 2009 (2)
- 24: Goal-driven social media strategies & tactics: how are you interacting with your target audience? (27)
- 10: SEO and reality: ranking first for ‘subaqueous auto racing’ is only impressive if people actually search on that phrase (10)
August 2009 (3)
- 21: Take control of your social media presence before someone does it for you. (8)
- 11: Making sense of semantic HTML: an introduction for clients and new Web designers (31)
- 04: seo – keywords do the darndest things (9)
July 2009 (3)
- 27: Twitter chats: if you can’t meet in real space, meet in real time. (25)
- 22: Have you ever tried to eat ice cream with a fork? Copywriting for the Web (13)
- 07: Your Flash site won’t seem so cool if visitors can’t use it. (13)
June 2009 (1)
- 24: Welcome to Social Media eBook and site launches today! (4)
May 2009 (3)
- 26: Is Flash evil? No, but Flash-based sites can be a marketing nightmare. (27)
- 12: Say what you mean—don’t let jargon drive your visitors away. (9)
- 07: 3rd Annual eMarketing Techniques Conference – Cleveland (0)
April 2009 (3)
- 29: My Twitter following habits aren’t better than yours; they’re just different. (20)
- 23: Marketing is matchmaking: making introductions through lead generation (3)
- 08: 8 things to consider when redesigning your Web site—let’s start with WHY? (20)
March 2009 (4)
- 30: If you move, will they follow? Marketing the move of the Web Development Blog Update #1. (6)
- 17: The power of podcasting: building your brand while entertaining (and educating) your audience. (10)
- 06: Seeing is believing: measuring SEO and visualizing results with Wordle Word Clouds (5)
- 03: Learning for fun and adventure: online education comes in many flavors (5)
February 2009 (2)
- 23: Welcome to the new home of the Web Development Blog! (12)
- 15: MKTG 101: Web Content Should Serve Visitor Needs (8)
January 2009 (2)
- 29: MKTG 101: Social Media Marketing is still marketing: know your audience (13)
- 11: 2 Top 5 Lists = 1 Top Ten List: My most read Web Development Blog entries from 2008 (4)
December 2008 (2)
- 29: Social Media is People (but more enriching than Soylent Green*) (13)
- 09: 5 Tips to ensure your readers can read your HTML e-mail messages (13)
November 2008 (1)
- 09: An URL by any other name would still work like an URL, part 2: length doesn’t matter (3)
October 2008 (4)
- 28: Should you or should you not have links open in a new window/tab? (16)
- 21: Afraid of outbound links? Don’t be. (15)
- 13: Northeast Ohio Resources for Blogging, Social Media and Web Development (3)
- 04: An URL by any other name would still work like an URL, part 1: subdomains (11)
September 2008 (1)
- 16: Social Media: Your Interactive Information Resource (8)
July 2008 (2)
- 23: Blogs: The Many Voices of a University (8)
- 14: Testing Web sites with multiple browser versions (14)
June 2008 (3)
- 18: Tips for installing Google Analytics on Case and other Web servers. (9)
- 08: Plurk: Social Media Marketing in Action (24)
- 06: CaseLearns: 2008 Summer Semester Classes (2)
May 2008 (7)
- 28: Meme: How has blogging impacted your work? (24)
- 20: Things we can learn from del.icio.us—for use in our marketing endeavors (31)
- 18: Uploading files with Dreamweaver (WebDAV) (3)
- 18: Uploading files with the WebDrive WebDAV client for Windows (1)
- 15: Introduction to WebDAV (5)
- 13: The Web server upgrade happens May 19, 2008. Are you ready? (3)
- 04: 5 reasons your blog should have an editorial policy (22)
April 2008 (3)
- 20: Embedding YouTube Videos the Standards Compliant Way—SFWobject 2.0 (18)
- 15: Maximize your marketing through blog networks and aggregator sites (16)
- 03: How did I get by before Firefox Add-Ons? (19)
March 2008 (1)
- 17: Reflections on social media networking and marketing (30)
February 2008 (3)
- 26: Wayfinding within your Web site (14)
- 14: Common Craft’s Plain English Video Series (2)
- 01: Social media opportunities for Web Developers at Case (7)
January 2008 (4)
- 16: Your home page is NOT your index; it’s your store front (21)
- 11: Tips for Nonprofits Meme (4)
- 11: Our new addition (2)
- 03: CaseLearns: 2008 Spring Semester Classes (0)
December 2007 (3)
- 26: Web Content: Not just YOUR words and pictures (19)
- 10: Voice and Tone: Writing to reflect your personality as well as your message (Part 2) (2)
- 05: Copy Writing: Long vs. Short, Does it Matter? (9)
November 2007 (3)
- 17: Out of Office (1)
- 14: A picture is worth a thousand words, but that’s not always enough (9)
- 08: Usenet Newsgroups: Anachronistic Service or Useful Communication Tool? (8)
October 2007 (3)
- 30: Don’t build your Web site in a vacuum (23)
- 11: Voice and Tone: Writing to reflect your personality as well as your message (Part 1) (10)
- 01: CSS Tip: Positioning photos with floats (26)
September 2007 (2)
- 25: Podcast Recommendation: Boagworld (7)
- 07: Linkbait: Tasty morsels to entice readers (32)
August 2007 (3)
- 28: An Introduction to Web Standards (17)
- 21: University Main Web Homepage On-line Discussion (13)
- 09: Enhance your reputation & increase traffic by joining discussions on other blogs (63)
July 2007 (5)
- 27: Using blogs and Web pages to raise your professional profile (11)
- 23: Web 2.0 & Social Networking can enhance “findability” (26)
- 13: An Introduction to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Part 1 (234)
- 06: Image Formats 101: From Bitmaps to Vector Art which do you use when? (3)
- 02: The logos are here! Updating the logo on your Web site (5)
June 2007 (3)
- 17: My Web Development Tools (14)
- 12: When one image just won’t do; incorporating slideshows on your Web site. Part 2: Flash (2)
- 06: When one image just won’t do; incorporating slideshows on your Web site. Part 1: Javascript (1)
May 2007 (4)
- 21: Branding, new logos and your Web site (0)
- 15: Blogging your campus communiqués=good customer service (4)
- 08: The Comments Conundrum (35)
- 08: Kevin has left the building (1)
April 2007 (4)
- 25: Converting Word documents to HTML (6)
- 19: Embedding Flash Objects for Internet Explorer (10)
- 10: My media consumption diet (12)
- 02: Don’t say “click here.” Include your links in context. (12)
March 2007 (2)
- 28: Writing to be understood by your audience (7)
- 13: Case Wordnerds to discuss blogging (0)
February 2007 (3)
- 27: Flickr: Tags, Groups, Interestingness and Social Networking (20)
- 21: The site is up and running, but is anyone visiting? Find out with Aurora stats. (0)
- 10: More DW Snippets – 50 states form select in two versions (3)
January 2007 (6)
- 30: CaseLearns courses to enhance your Web development skills (1)
- 23: The workings of Internet search engines (5)
- 22: On Aesthetics and Usability in Design (12)
- 11: From HTML tables to Flickr: How do you archive your photographs? (20)
- 03: New Year, New Copyright Date? (0)
- 02: For Review: New Search Engine – hakia.com (7)
December 2006 (2)
- 12: Favorite / Recommended Web Hosts (10)
- 05: A picture is worth a thousand words, more or less (14)
November 2006 (3)
- 16: Choosing a good password (2)
- 16: Using CSS to deliver Web content to different media types (11)
- 13: A writer’s obligations: ethics, law and pragmatism, Part 3: Pragmatism (0)
October 2006 (5)
- 27: A writer’s obligations: ethics, law and pragmatism, Part 2a: Ethics (8)
- 25: I had a good experience at the BMV: Customer Service on the Web (3)
- 20: A writer’s obligations: ethics, law and pragmatism, Part 1: Law (46)
- 13: Web writers: What are we? Journalists? Marketers? Information Providers? Opinion makers? Scholars? (20)
- 05: From Case to Colby in 8 jumps: The value and vagaries of external links (3)
September 2006 (3)
- 27: Dreamweaver and Photoshop Classes (2)
- 20: Benefits of using the preferred first.last e-mail style (3)
- 15: 15 Years (give or take) of the WWW (8)
August 2006 (5)
- 31: I’m not going to teach you CSS: Lesson 2 (0)
- 31: WordNerds Discussion Group (0)
- 21: New “About Us” Page on Webdev Blog (1)
- 09: Avoid squishy head syndrome: proper techniques for sizing and cropping images (1)
- 03: I’m not going to teach you CSS: Lesson 1 (7)
July 2006 (4)
- 31: Valid code for using Flash animations on the Web (1)
- 21: Good article about CSS and “Standards” (5)
- 19: Using blogs and web pages to raise your professional profile (2)
- 11: I’m not going to teach you XHTML/HTML: Homework Review (4)
June 2006 (4)
- 28: Sharing the wisdom of Blake Ross, inventor of Firefox (4)
- 26: Uploading files with Dreamweaver (FTP) (5)
- 20: Web File Organization and Naming Conventions (4)
- 09: I’m not going to teach you XHTML/HTML, but you should learn it anyway (13)
May 2006 (4)
- 26: Customize your masthead image (2)
- 26: Good Interview with Tim O’Reilly (1)
- 16: Using RSS feeds in HTML pages without PHP (1)
- 05: Taking over the world, or at least reaching out to it (6)
April 2006 (2)
- 17: Building your site: Tertiary pages—When more is more (0)
- 03: Listening to academic podcasts: Who would and why? Part I (1)
March 2006 (3)
- 23: Beware of your vocabulary (13)
- 06: To Blog or not to Blog (14)
- 06: Podcasting macht Spaß! (Podcasting is fun!) (1)
February 2006 (2)
- 24: Raising your Web site rankings (44)
- 08: Building your site: Secondary pages (6)
January 2006 (2)
- 25: Building your site: The Front Page (42)
- 16: Book Review: “Don’t make me think” (2)
November 2005 (2)
- 09: Out of the office (0)
- 09: Training & Resources (0)
September 2005 (1)
- 23: More DW Snippets to copy and paste (0)
August 2005 (3)
- 31: Rediscovering Snippets (3)
- 25: Organizing, acquiring, and creating content for your Web site – Part Two (5)
- 25: Organizing, acquiring, and creating content for your Web site – Part One (1)
July 2005 (4)
- 28: More about your target audiences (0)
- 21: Understanding your goals and your target audience (1)
- 12: Kevin & Heidi’s Move to Adelbert (0)
- 01: So you want to build a Web site (72)
May 2005 (2)
- 09: Subdomains vs. Accounts – Case’s Naming Conventions (8)
- 04: Visitor Traffic: Ideas For Gaining More Blog Readers (5)
April 2005 (2)
- 13: Securing web pages for password authentication (0)
- 04: Using ssi files with secured pages (4)
March 2005 (3)
- 22: Automatic ‘Print this page’ (0)
- 07: Javascript – ‘Bookmark this page!’ (3)
- 04: URL Redirect (3)
February 2005 (1)
- 28: Introducing the Web Development Blog (1)

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