I don't know what prompted a comment I got this morning from a visitor/reader about my post about our Halloween pumpkins, maybe it is because it is Halloween, or maybe they are just having a bad da...
Happy Halloween everyone! I hope that everyone is having a spooky time today! It has been a busy week or so around here and I have been busy carving pumpkins for my kids. I am not exactly an artist...
It seems like I have been posting a lot about link building lately. I don't know why, perhaps it is the constant dumb emails I have been getting for link exchanges but recently I got not just email...
Optimizing images for the Internet can be a pain staking task to make the image as small as possible while still making it look as good as it can. Back in the day when everyone was on dialup web de...
I was hoping to announce my big news today but unfortunately I have to postpone my announcement due to several factors. One was my almost three year old daughter having an accident over the weekend...
Things are finally settling down after the move and there are some big changes coming for LGR Computer Enterprises and this blog. More details will be coming in the next few weeks, but to start wit...
Google Chrome web browser has been released to the world now and I just could not help but download it and install it to see how it looks and works. My first impressions are that it installed quick...
Ever since Jott left beta I have noticed an increase in traffic here of people searching for a Jott promo code to save a few dollars on their Jott subscription. I like Jott, don't know if I will be...
I first read about this project over at Google Blogoscoped. Apparently they sent a comic book in the mail talking about Google Chrome, Google's Web Browser project. Google's official blog now has a...
Many years ago in a web shop far far away I remember being shown how to create a background that tiled. It did not take me long to be able to create my own in Photoshop. Fast forward to today and y...
I have been using Google's GMail for all my email for roughly a year and a half now. It is great that I can access it from almost anywhere, including my mobile phone. I have always made sure I conn...
It has been a very hectic week here getting ready for the move to Regina. Not a lot of extra time to post on the blog. Not only have I been busy packing but Sasktel my Internet provider apparently ...
I would usually post this video over at my Video Rambler blog, but the computer geek in me just feels I need to post it here. With the launch of the iPhone3G yesterday it seemed like everyone had s...
I am still sorting through all the mail in my inbox and almost missed this one. If you are interested in checking out the WordZe keyword research tool you can save some money until July 14th. For o...
I got back from vacation a few days ago and it is always a little hard to get right back to work after a holiday. I found my mind kept wandering during the day and I ended up playing with Firefox 3...
Hope everyone is having a great day across Canada! I am actually out enjoying one of Canada's great National Parks. If you want to know more about Canada Day Wikipedia does have a decent entry abou...
This post over at Search-This is one that I can file under the category "Posts I wish I had written". It offers 10 great points that every serious web developer should know. This is probably a good...
Google Trends is a great tool. I use occasionally to see what is hot and what is not on the web. Recently Google Trends released Google Trends for websites. A very interesting addition. You can now...
The news is official, my wife has accepted a new position at Christ Lutheran Church in Regina Saskatchewan as an Assistant Pastor. As a result I will be moving my office from Rosthern Saskatchewan ...
I am sure many of you have probably already heard that Firefox 3 has now been released and is available for download. If for some reason you are still using Internet Explorer this is your chance to...
I talked about VectorMagic way back in October, but I wanted to mention them again because they just saved me a couple hours of work. I had a client email me a logo and I needed to recreate it for ...
I started blogging here for several reasons and for the most part it has been positive for my business. It has connected me with my clients, helped me find new clients and been a way for me to lear...
I was taking a look at YouTube earlier today and noticed I had another option available for my videos. You can now add annotations to your videos hosted on YouTube. There are currently three types ...
I have been working with several new clients lately, mostly helping them update their websites with new content. Most of these websites were created by other companies or individuals and I am alway...
I have had this theme for a little while and intended to use it for a project I was planning. Unfortunately that project has been shelved indefinitely. Since I don't think I have an immediate need ...
I have a new post up over at Epiblogger today called Jott Blogging. I came across Jott a little while ago and have been using it to make Jotts to myself. It is a great service. My post over at Epib...
Back in the early days of the web it was easy being a webmaster. If you had some design skills, and could learn HTML and maybe some basic coding in PERL you could run a website and be successful. I...
It never hurts to have one more way for people to find out about you and your business, and that is exactly what AboutUs.org is about. Aboutus.org is a wiki based website that is for business and o...
Twitter is everywhere these days, and I was sceptical at first but I have become a fan. It becomes a great tool to use to find out information from various sources. For example, today I have been c...
I admit I grew up when making mix tapes was a common thing. Compact did not exist until I was in grade eleven or twelve. To be cool you had a loud car stereo and you made your own mix tapes. I supp...
I was not going to post anything today but I just got this great email from Aviary telling me that I now have access to their web-based image editor named Phoenix and to Peacock their pattern gene...
There are some companies that just make me shake my head. One is the Domain Registry of Canada and now I really have to wonder about Register.com. I have been trying to get a domain name transferre...
I have talked about how important it is for webmasters to test their work in other web browsers before, and I am a big fan of BrowserCam. I even have an account there. I recently found a new web se...
I have talked about Lightbox and other Lightbox like Javascripts before, and I wanted to add another one I just found to the mix for you. I StumbledUpon Shadowbox yesterday and almost clicked away ...
You might not have know that HP had launched an online backup service called HP Upline. I heard about it through TechCrunch. If you read my blog occasionally you know I am a MozyPro user and that I...
I was browsing around today and came across this neat effect that makes the bottom look like it fades out to the background colour. I don't know if I would ever use something like this but I like t...
Ever wanted to know what other websites are hosted on a server? Ok, most people probably don't, but for the small majority of use that just have a desire to know these things there is a way. One of...
I really enjoy using Google Earth, as many of you probably do as well. One if the things I enjoy most about Google Earth is looking at the photos that people have uploaded through Panoramio. They u...
I don't usually post my earnings online, mainly because I don't think I should have to post how much money I earn from my online ventures to prove to people how successful I am. March, however, was...
Well the big news this morning is that WordPress 2.5 has been released to the world. You can download the the latest version from the WordPress website. I will be downloading and taking a look at i...
Thought I would post something fun today, since life can't be all about work all the time right? Came across a website yesterday called Face in Hole. They give you the chance to put your face, or...
I don't think I gripe on this blog very often, but I have had so many problems with SaskTel email in the last month or two that I just have to gripe. For those that read this blog not from Saskatch...
I have become a Twitter convert. I finally get it. I have had my issues with Twitter in the past (here and here) but thanks to Rhett I think I have finally gotten the behind it. Sure it is a way to...
One of my sisters decided to start blogging! She decided to start up her own craft blog. I am probably one of the most useless people there is at crafts. I think my sister got all of those genes. I...
There are times when you just want to add in a simple piece of Javascript in Joomla. While the default site module can handle HTML it can't handle Javascript. Seems like such a simple thing, but if...
I deal with quite a few small businesses, and they are always in need of good advice and information to run their business effectively and efficiently. The thing about a small business is they don'...
I have been wanting to redo a couple of my own personal websites to make more screen real estate available and make information more available in a compact space. I have seen tabs done of other web...
If you monetize your website(s) with Google Adsense you have probably been asked to agree to another long and tedieus Terms and Conditions agreement again. Of course Google does not do you any favo...
Found some more free stuff that you can download and use on your website or blog. These are probably most appropriate for a blog, but you never know you might find a use for them on a regular websi...
I discovered this past weekend that if you want to make WordPress grind to a halt all you have to do is import roughly 2000 pages into it. Why did I import 2000 pages into WordPress? Well I wanted ...
Round corners seem to be popular right now. I always avoided doing them, not because I did not know how, but mainly becuase they just took time. I have found a new Web 2.0 tool that can help you if...
Happy Valentines everyone! Hope you are going to spend some time with your special someone today. I wanted to let people know that Epiblogger is holding a Valentines giveaway today! If you are an ...
If you run your website on Joomla you should go and take a look at the Joomla website for information about the release of Joomla 1.0.14. Looks like the release is mostly a security release to prev...
In a totally unrelated post that has very little to do with anything else on this blog, I StumbledUpon these videos earlier today and they made me laugh. Nothing like turning the tables in the PC v...
Google Webmaster Tools is a helpful service for all webmasters whether your website is hundereds of thousands of pages or less than ten pages. Google has put together a nice little quickstart guide...
I thought I would continue talking about Joomla since they have now released version 1.5. Joomla is a great system and offers a great framework to build a website on. If you want to create a commun...
I was doing some work on a clients Joomla site this morning and went to check up on the Joomla project and discovered that they have released version 1.5 today! Congratulations to the Joomla team f...
Somehow in the midst of all the craziness of this week I finally got some new favicons up for download over at FreeFavicon.com. I have had a folder of favicons I have been wanting to sort through a...
It has been a very busy week, perhaps you could have guessed that by they fact that I have not posted anything in a couple of days. I won't apologize for not posting here but I have been busy posti...
I Stumbled across a sketch generator today and I was curious how many others there are out there. I could only find two: Spork Forge and Dumpr. I guess there is not a very large market for sketch g...
Some days it is just easier to sit and listen to a podcast or watch a video. If you are interested in SEO you have probably heard of Aaron Wall. He is the author of the SEOBook. The only ebook I wo...
I had a discussion today about how to open external links on a website. The question is, do you open external links in the same browser or do you open them in a new browser window? I have to admi...
I am very pleased to announce that the next project for Soveran and Robertson Internet Publishers is finally off the ground and ready for the world to start taking part in. EpiBlogger - The organic...
I have to admit the holidays were great. Having a 4 and 2 year old is just so much fun to watch them open presents and get so excited. The other thing that was great about the holidays was a chance...
Came across this great post this morning with the top 10 URL shortening services. I don't use URL shortening services very often but they can come in handy when you want to send people links to thi...
I am not a big name domainer by any means but I do have a collection of domain names that I maintain. Some have websites on them, others are there waiting for the right day to be turned into the ne...
Happy New Year! I hope that you have had a good 2007 and that 2008 will be a good one for you. I personally have been getting sick of reading all of the top 2007 and goals for 2008 posts that ha...
Are you tired of the same old boring search results, with nothing but a search engines mysterious algorithm to guide you? If you are give the StumbleUpon enhanced web search a try, your search resu...
I have been enjoying a continual Stumble the last week or so and it has been great to see the number of readers that keep coming in through StumbleUpon. I know a person should not spend a lot of ti...
StumbleUpon has become a fantastic resource for sharing and promoting websites and blogs. One of the best things you can do to make your website friendly for Stumblers to encourage them to give it ...
Do you look at your goals for the week and realize you have not accomplished as much as you hoped? Every week I have a set of goals, and while I might not be as compulsive as some people, I need to...
Merry Christmas to everyone! It has been a good year and I am looking forward to 2008. I hope that everyone has a chance relax and spend time with family. I know I am looking forward to having some...
From the strange and wonderful world of my log files I discovered that I am number one for the term "Internet geek" when you search Blogger profiles. I took a screenshot that you can see below. I a...
A new group blog called Collective Thoughts has a great post titled "Webmaster, stop being so AntiSocial!!". It makes some good points about how the web has changed from being a lot of lone guns tr...
I remember the days of the local bulletin board systems and dialing in to take part in the conversations. Bulletin board systems are the precursors of the modern internet forums. The earliest forum...
I really enjoy getting comments on the posts here, and I remove nofollow from the comments because I think people that comment should have some link love. One of the other reasons I enjoy comments ...
It seems like I am always looking for a new way of creating rounded corners for designs. I usually just take the easy way out and use images. In my search this time around I came across a website c...
Recently I was called to help a local business with trying to recover some important files. Unfortunately I was unable to recover the files and the cost to that business to recover from that loss c...
Today the Internet has become a better place because AGLOCO is dead! It was a bad from the very beginning and really nothing more than a pyramid scheme. People kept saying it does not cost you anyt...
The entries are all in for the best blogging achievement group writing project organized by All Tips and Tricks. This group writing project is also a contest, so take some time and read through al...
I was able to get the latest theme ready to go onve on the LGR WordPress Themes Blog. It has actually been running on the blog for about two weeks, but I just got it nicely packaged up into a zip f...
It is the busiest time of the year for retail sales, and traffic on the sites I run AuctionAds on are all up, but guess what? AuctionAds has been performing like crap ever since ShoeMoney sold it. ...
I don't use Google Docs very often, when I do it is mostly to jot notes to myself from a clients location to make sure I have some snippet of information available when I get back to my office. Rec...
It has been roughly 34 hours since I switched my default Firefox search engine from Google to Yahoo and I have been surprised about a couple of things: Change is Hard - Things look different and...
Like a lot of people that use Firefox I tend to just use the default search box in the top right of Firefox to search the web. The default search engine is set to Google, and I have not really had ...
Miracle of miracles I noticed in my referral logs that I had a visit through a BlogRush widget yesterday. I had forgotten all about them, since I don't run the widget and the last time I logged in ...
Go and get a great set of Foliage Shapes for Photoshop. These shapes will make it easy and fast to create all sorts of interesting things. I found this a just the right time. I had a great last nig...
Ever wonder what that color is called? Perhaps it is a guy thing, but I know I could not tell you the names of all of the colors. Well now you don't have to worry about it, use Name that Color and ...
It has been a very crazy week trying to get things done, so I have not had a chance to post as often as I wanted to this week. One of the many challanges of running a business and being a work from...
Aside from doing web development I also provide computer repair and support here in my community. I enjoy doing it and it gets me out of the office at least once a week to do something other than c...
Today is Rememberance Day here in Canada and I would like to take a moment to thank all of the people who have and are still serving in our armed forces. Your sacrifices and work is not forgotten a...
Now that we live in the post Google slap where websites have been penalized for selling text links we need to find an alternative. While there is no doubt that the text link market will not be dyin...
In my never ending quest to get better at choosing colours for websites I have found another website that I think offers me help. Is is called Sphere by Colorjack and I have already found a use for...
I recently found Splashup, an online graphic editing tool. While I won't be deleting my copy of Photoshop off of my hard drive quite yet, I was very impressed with the features available in the onl...
I admit it! I did not mean to do it, it was an accident honest. I know I should not have been Stumbling when I should have been working. If I could take it back I would, please don't be made at me....
I have been holding off posting this until I was sure the domain transfer went through, but the lucky winner of the Domain Name Giveaway was Rasha who runs RoseateMarketingTips.com. Congratulations...
I have been mulling this post over for a considerable amount of time. If you have not read Seth Godin's post "How to create a great website" you really should take a look. He outlines 10 points to ...
First there was the Million Dollar Wiki and now there is the Five Dollar Wiki. The Five Dollar Wiki offers a similar service, but you don't need to cough up a $100.00 for a page, but only $5.00 for...
I have been seeing lots of advertising for the Best of the Web directory lately and I started to wonder if anyone actually uses web directories anymore. Personally, I don't think I have used a dire...
There are occasions when you need to do some serious blocking on your website, and you have to block an entire country. I have helped people in the past block countries like China from accessing th...
Well Google finally updated the public PageRank and there have been a number of big name bloggers and websites that have been slapped with a drop in PageRank. I won't regurgitate the whole nasty me...
There is only one week left before I draw the lucky winner in the Domain Name Giveaway! If you have not entered go and leave a comment or trackback on the post and you could be the lucky one to wal...
The generaters that are being created are getting more complex all the time. I recently came across the templatr, a website that you can use to create and edit your own WordPress theme. If you hav...
I was browsing through all of the Google Gadgets today and, while there are some really interesting ones, I have to wonder "do Google Gadgets work to help keep visitors on your website/blog?" Does ...
When I checked my blog on Saturday I had a large amount of comment spam that had been caught by Akismet, larger than usual for my little place on the web. Browsing through it briefly, I quickly not...
Mike posted a good question on my earlier post on how to Disable Indexes using .htaccess. Is there a way to specify what page to redirect to if there is a 404? Currently it’s displaying one create...
To get away from all of the hubbub about Google I heard about a coupon from MozyPro today. If you are looking for a great and convenient way to back up your data offsite then you should take a loo...
Everyone seems to be talking about Google the last few days and how they have started to penalize websites that sell text links, such as Text Link ads. Search Engine Watch has an interesting articl...
There are some things that make me happy. This is one of them. I don't know if it was me banning the IP address from this site, or the 403 error image I started to serve to the website that was scr...
It appears that I have a fan, ok maybe not a fan. I have a website scraper that is just not smart enough to actually read the content they are scraping so they are getting my nice RSS feed addition...
This has got to be the coolest shirt I have ever seen! Nothing like wearing a wi-fi detector shirt that changes depending on the strength of the wi-fi signal where you are. I have to put this on my...
I was browsing the FeedBurner blog this morning and noticed that they have released a new version of the FeedBurner FeedSmith Plugin. If you are using the FeedBurner FeedSmith Plugin you should get...
I have several personal websites on a shared server where indexes are turned on by default in Apache. That is simply annoying, because I hate having stray empty index.html files sitting all over th...
There was a post over on Pronet Advertising earlier in September that has stuck in my head for a little while now. The post was titled Social Media is the New Word-of-Mouth. Perhaps what caught my ...
Well I have been checking in one DealDotCom the past few days, and I have to say I have not been impressed with the crap stuff they have been selling. Things seemed really hopeful when on the secon...
I don't read Mashable very often, mainly because they post so often it is hard to keep up, but I do check it out occasionally. Earlier in September they had this huge post 5000+ Resources to Do Jus...
I finally got around to replacing the carpet in your little kitchen nook with some new laminate flooring. I took pictures as I went and put them together in this little video. It is 30 secs long so...
Problogger was running a poll last week to see if people preferred full or partial RSS feeds. The results are in with 75% of the respondents liking full feeds better than partial feeds. I persona...
I have been resistant to using another program for reading RSS feeds, but I have been collecting a large number of subscriptions using Firefox's Live bookmarking feature. Not a great way to keep up...
This made me laugh tonight. I don't spend much time on Digg or Reddit mainly because I have other things that need to be done. When I do surf I am much more of a Stumbleupon user, who just likes to...
I, like most people, love contests for free stuff. They sucker draw me in every time. If you are running a tech website or blog it can be very easy to come up with for prizes to give away, simply l...
Stripes seem to becoming popular again in designs. I have not used stripes in a web design for awhile, but after discovering StripeMania I might have to consider trying a design with stripes again....
I recently added a little snippet of PHP to Video Rambler to welcome people that were coming from StumbleUpon with a custom welcome. The website recently got Stumbled again and one of the people th...
Every blog I visited last night and today, including Shoemoney, Dosh Dosh, Andy Beal at Marketing Pilgrim and John Chow, had something written about Blog Rush. What is it? Blog Rush is a new javas...
Now I can't say I never win anything. I submitted a comment in Smashing Magazine's Anniversary Developer's Tools Giveaway post and my name was drawn! I have been wanting to try Crazy Egg, but have...
I am always on the lookout for new ways to improve the websites I create and one of the best ways I have found to improve user input is to use Javascript to validate the data before sending it to t...
I was having a discussion with a client a couple of weeks ago about affiliate marketing and what programs might suit their website the best and gave them a great deal of information about some of t...
If you have been building websites for a little while you have probably heard of Aaron Wall. He wrote a popular search engine optimization book called, appropriately enough, SEOBook. If you are int...
If you have been visiting for a little while, or have browsed through some of the older posts (Color Combinations & Color Combinations Update) you know that one of the areas I struggle with is ...
I am very happy with my dedicated servers from BlueFur.com. I have had very little problems with them over the years and they are easy to maintain. Recently though I came across a company called Fa...
Now that I have moved over to WordPress it is important to keep up with the latest releases and upgrades to keep the site secure. The latest release, WordPress 2.2.3, is a security and bug-fix rele...
With the move to WordPress I thought I would give the ScribeFire addon for Firefox another try. I had tried it once when this blog was on Blogger and it just did not work very well. I have to admit...
Well I just could not take it any more. Blogger was down again today and am simply feed up with it, so the move has started to WordPress. Things might be a little messy around here for a little whi...
One of the things I am paranoid about is losing my work. I have had hard drives die on me in the past and ever since I have been pretty good about backing up the data I really need and want to kee...
A tool I have been using lately is What the Font?. You provide it an image of a font and it tells you what font it is. I have found it to be very handing when I get a redesign job come in and I jus...
Webmasters and bloggers are always after more links. The more links the better your ranking should be in the search engines and hopefully the more people will visit your website or blog and take wh...
This video has Matt Cutt's doing a presentation at WordCamp 2007 with search engine optimization tips for bloggers. It is a long video, just over 1 hour in length so you might want to just put the...
I have been back for just over a week now from a great week off up at Waskesui, in Prince Albert National Park. In the week I have been back I have been busy doing a redesign of a website for a cl...
It seems like the new Blogger just got out of beta, and now Blogger is offering a new draft version where they try out new features before releasing them to the general public. You can try out the ...
I have been rather quiet the over the last week. Not that there has not been anything to blog about, but I have simply been busy with work and family. Here are some of the links I have found intere...