A few years ago, I feared that free and “immediate” (heh) services such as GoDaddy’s Website Tonight (GDWT) feature would put me out of business. No more! Seriously folks, this service, specifically, creates bulky, ugly, inconsistent, search engine un-friendly pages that don’t comply to current coding standards (at best), can break browsers and follows 1999 practices (at worst). Is this what you want??? (more…)

Wow, has a year already gone by? Here I am again already anticipating WebVisions 10! I’ve been a volunteer at the last two WebVisions events and have not been disappointed. If “third time is a charm” I can only imagine what I might learn this year. For example, a few topics I’ve learned about in the past are: memes, sifr, gzip, web analytics, search engine optimization, ajax, social media, and (more…)

A high school buddy of mine, Vince, called me up a couple of weeks ago and asked about helping get a website up for his new business – Junk Pro Oregon in the Portland metro area. After our conversation, he decided to get the website itself going on his own, through a ‘website tonight’ interface. I told him to give me a call if he wanted some help marketing it, and he did. His question… common for many… was (more…)

KP Services style of creating webpages often produces organic “Page One” Google results on some pretty competitive search phrases: (more…)

Wow! What more can I say about this event held last week. Three days, lots of workshops and sessions, and lots of learning! Well organized and low cost. The folks at Hot Pepper studios plus all the board members, sponsor partners, and fellow volunteers, know how (more…)

WebVisions 2009 will be held at the Convention Center, May 20-22.
(Earlybird registration has been extended to April 6.)

I attended WebVisions last year for the first time and was not disappointed! Not only was this a great networking event (more…)

KP Services likes to pride itself on value-added service. In this spirit, one of the bonuses you receive as a KP Services client is a complimentary update of your website copyright date. How often do you visit a site and the copyright still says 2003 or such? What is your first impression? (more…)