A couple of months ago I discovered bla.st – a visual "card" directory. Basically bla.st lets you upload a "business card" for your website, allowing your site to be discovered on their main website and throughout their network. I instantly fell in love with the entire concept, as it was not only a great way to get traffic to my sites, but also a great place to casually browse the internet for new and exciting websites.

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Using CSS to create rollover buttons is a much better method than javascript. Not only does it allow users who don't have javascript enabled to view your buttons, but it also lets you create cleaner code and allows you to update the buttons quickly when needed.

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Web statistics are big right now. In fact, if you don't have good statistics software installed chances are you aren't optimizing your website properly. I have been fortunate enough to use Google Analytics since it launched, but I have always found the interface to be cluttered and hard to use. Fortunately, there is a new player in the market.

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Over the past couple of months I have spent some time browsing through various software packages for my new iMac, and I am amazed every time at how hard it is to actually find out how a certain piece of software works and what it looks like. This doesn't just apply to desktop software either, as I find it to be a large problem with many open-source web solutions too.

It's really simple: I will not buy or download your software unless I can see it in action. I want to play with the software, I want to know if it looks good, and I want to know that I am investing my time (and possibly money) into a solid program.

So as a plea to all software developers in the world, please start offering a demo or at least screenshots of your program prominently on your website. It is one of the first things your users will be looking for, and by omitting it you could be losing sales and a strong user base.

This morning while doing a whois lookup on my domain, neupix.com, I discovered that there is a new website in town that creates entire Wiki articles about domain names. AboutUs.org feels it's appropriate to gather both personal and website information of domain names and put them all into one place. My personal information (including email address, mailing address and telephone number) were all included on this page, as well as the neupix.com logo and the contents of my about page.

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