Two Easy Steps to Help Avoid Identity Theft on Social Networking Sites

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Are you one of the people who have recently become concerned about identity theft as a result of social networking websites? The likes of MySpace and Facebook leave users particularly vulnerable to fraud and other types of identity theft, especially if you have added personal details (such as your full name and date of birth) to your profile page. These details can easily be seen by anyone with access to your profile. Unless you have specifically set your profile to remain private, even people who Read More >>

Make the Season Bright!

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Each year, we receive Christmas and holiday cards from our clients and associates. And each year, we spend days trying to figure out what we should send them: Chocolate? Cards? Stuffed raccoons? (We opted for the first two.) Now, we could have taken the easy route and gone all-Hallmark on them, but we’re a classier bunch: we decided instead to hand-make our Christmas cards this year, since nothing warms the holiday spirit like generic gold foil holly, acorns, and glossy lettering on a navy background. Read More >>

The Email Standards Project

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It’s about time. Literally. After a few years doing email marketing — a year of which was spent in the trenches at an email marketing service provider — I’ve spent a lot of time trying to get HTML emails to render properly in all of the different email clients. Every time I code an email template, it has to be tested in up to 19 different email clients. That’s right — nineteen. Don’t believe me? Here’s a list: AOL 9 AOL Webmail Apple Mail Comcast Webmail Earthlink Webmail Entourage Gmail Lotus Read More >>

Q & A with Student Sam

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We get a lot of email here at OW HQ1, nothing special, just the garden–variety sort: super deals on pharmaceuticals, link exchange offers from Indian data companies, opportunities to transfer large sums of money to our account from deposed Nigerian dictators — you know, the usual. Sometimes we even receive requests for design services. Every so often, though, we get one of the really rare emails: a chance to pass on our wisdom to the next generation. In this case, a budding local designer sought Read More >>

What the Heck is 850kg of Gold Dust Worth Anyways?

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Ok, I’ve seen many a spam letter but I’ve yet to see one that breaks out and asks for a phone number, address, and my license number for God’s sakes! Just popped open my email this evening to find this lovely bit of garbage… “Good Day, I am writting this letter with due respect and heartful of tears since we have not known or met ourselves previously. I am asking for your assistance after getting your contact from a reliable source.I want to find out if it’s possible for you to Read More >>

Disappointing Spaces

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We got our office copy of Leopard a few weeks ago and I’ve have had some time to give it a spin. Overall I’m very pleased – it feels solid, more polished, and a little more responsive than Tiger. Here’s a quick list of my likes and dislikes: Way to Go, Apple Finder Huge improvements: much faster, and the new source pane is amazing (it looks a lot like iTunes now). It also includes a ‘Shared’ list that displays all the public folders on the network so sending files back and forth is Read More >>

New Rule #1: “Blog” Is a Noun

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An Elite Special Ops Merc’s Work is Never Done As part of OnWired’s ongoing mission to rid the web of ugly design(or, in this case, English grammar), we present to you the first in a series: New Rules! “Blog”, as you’ll recall, is short for “weblog”. This is common knowledge, to be sure, but remember: a log, of any kind — web or otherwise — is a noun. A thing. In this case, a thing you read. (Or write.) One does not “blog”, one “reads” or “writes” a blog. ready-made Read More >>

Please Write Content That Humans Can Read

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I’m completely amazed at some of the content I see on the web. It seems as if some people have sold out and are offering up simple readability as a sacrifice to the gods of Search Engine Optimization. They don’t care what the text on their site actually looks like to a human as long as they get ranked highly by the almighty Google. Here’s an example. Names have been changed to protect the innocent (or ignorant): Acme Corp is a Raleigh Web Design company located in Raleigh, NC. Acme specializes Read More >>

Google AdSense Tips — The Power of the Newsletter

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When it comes to making serious money with Google AdSense, successful marketing is an essential element of success. After all, visitors will not be able to click on the ads you host if they cannot find your site. Boosting traffic is an essential part of AdSense success, and one of the best ways to boost those page views is through the use of newsletters. Newsletters can serve a variety of important purposes beyond the world of Google AdSense, of course. For instance, a well written and informative Read More >>

Email Marketing Done Right

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As someone who spends most of my waking hours staring at a computer screen, I see my fair share of email marketing campaigns from an incredible variety of sources. Some are pretty good, some are mediocre, and some are just downright bad. But occasionally, I see one so well executed that it puts others to shame. This is the story of one such campaign. About a month ago, I received an email newsletter from one of my favorite recording artists outlining the details of her upcoming CD. As you might Read More >>