Nlk Tips Archive

Things You Can’t Do In IE8

It is February of the year two thousand and twelve, and while overall web stats claim that older Internet Explorer versions account for only ~ 15% of web traffic, the reality for your business could be quite different. What if you are looking to update your (company’s) website for the new year, but find that the majority of your visitors have not updated their web browsers in the past year (IE9 was released on 3/14/11)? While it may be true that with enough diligence, you can get IE6 – IE8 to do just about everything that modern browsers can do, there are a few things, specifically when working in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), that can really throw a wrench in the works. Here are some CSS pitfalls to be sure and avoid: READ MORE

Posted by Alex Chousmith on February 3, 2012
Categories: Tips, Develop

Holiday Search Tip Rap, from Google + Santa

Check out Santa’s holiday search tip rap, fresh off the little snowflake in the bottom right of Google’s helpful “New Gadgets” page. Did you get a new gadget – Android phone, tablet, or computer – over the holidays? Then this is for you: Download Google Chrome, get the Google+ app to face time, er, face-to-face with up to 9 people, hit up the Android App Store, and more. Happy Holidays!

Posted by Alex Chousmith on December 27, 2011
Categories: Tips, Market

Its that time of the year again – Elf Yourself

Boy, having pre-cropped headshots of all the Ninthlink team members sure makes it easy to turn people in to elves, whether they want to or not. READ MORE

Posted by Alex Chousmith on December 6, 2011
Categories: Culture, Tips, Market

How I launched a Facebook Fan Page in 15 Minutes. For Free!

So for those of you that have your Fan Pages rocking. Here was a quick and dirty test of launching a Page using www.pagemodo.com for FREE. Took the email blast that we shot through www.sendmetric.com and turned into a Facebook page for the promotion in under 15 minutes. Stay tuned as I will be working to reveal some great ways to launch a campaign that requires an email opt-in to be a part of the promotion and contest. Happy Vets day and Happy Marketing.

Posted by Jeromy Stallings on November 11, 2011
Categories: Tips, Market

Where’s the fold? There it is!

Designers talk about “the fold” on websites as some arbitrary line, where almost everyone will see what is going on “above the fold” on your homepage, and noone ever bothers to scroll down “below the fold”, so you can pretty much get away with anything you want there, right? But what does it really MEAN? Enter Where’s the fold – now you can SEE where the fold most likely will be, on whichever site you choose. Now we just need a Firefox plugin to do the same thing…

Posted by Alex Chousmith on October 11, 2011
Categories: Tips, Online Conversion, Design, Develop

Google AdSense AdChoices : I can appreciate what you are trying to do, but…

What are AdChoices? AdChoices are, basically, Google’s way of tailoring their AdSense ads to better suit you, personally – “to make these ads as relevant and useful as possible for you.” Of course, don’t just take my word for it. And while that is all fine and well, I have yet to find the setting in their Ads Preferences Manager that says “hey, if it is 4:15pm on a Tuesday, maybe don’t show me ads for Madden 12, which is sitting lonely in my PS3 while I am trying to finish up today’s work.” Sigh.

Posted by Alex Chousmith on September 13, 2011
Categories: Culture, Tips, Market

Cool Finds for Google Gmail – Labs Tab!

After a Saturday morning surf in Mission Beach (for those that did not want to jump into the Del Mar toxic waste spill) I went over to visit an old friend in Pacific Beach who taught me a couple new tricks with GMAIL.

Posted by Jeromy Stallings on September 12, 2011
Categories: Tips

How Legos Teach Web Development

Jeromy found this post on Eight Ways Legos Teach Web Development, and it is pretty rad. I grew up with Legos, from Robin Hood and his merry men, through Star Wars. Maybe thats what drew me in to the world of web development too? If you can dream it, you can build it. Check out the rest of reasons, via Cory Etzkorn.

Posted by Alex Chousmith on August 30, 2011
Categories: Culture, Tips, Design, Develop

With New WordPress Releases Comes New Minimum System Requirements

I got to go on a lovely vacation at the start of this month. So of course that meant it was time for WordPress to release their new v3.2, and 3.2.1 after that, while I was away. The new v3.2 actually brought with it a nice back-end UI cleanup, courtesy of @darylkoop (I think) – check a preview of that after the jump – but it also brought an update to the Minimum System Requirements for running the latest version: PHP version 5.2.4 or higher and MySQL version 5.0 or higher. Be sure to check this first before upgrading, or else you will repeat my mistake, and find yourself greeted by a “Your server is running PHP version [not 5.2.4] but WordPress 3.2.1 requires at least 5.2.4.” white screen of death. READ MORE

Posted by Alex Chousmith on July 20, 2011
Categories: Tips, Develop

Plumbing Needs? Get Out Your Smartphone!

Mobile Web Development

We launched a mobile version of BillHowe.com, optimized for viewing on smartphones and other mobile web devices. This particular mobile-friendly version uses the same font, colors, and URL structure (to support existing online marketing campaigns) as the standard corporate site and contains links to main services, customer reviews, coupons, and of course, a contact page with direct push to call functionality.

With 25% of Americans accessing the mobile web on a daily basis, a number which continues to rise, it’s becoming increasingly important to ensure your site is optimized for smartphone and other mobile displays. What looks great on a 17” monitor doesn’t necessarily translate to a 3.5” handheld screen with limited scrolling capability. With mobile web development, you can be sure your users are seeing exactly what you want them to see.
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