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Allow Me To Shed Some Light On The Internet

The Internet is one of mankind's most advanced form of business currently available. It is the most scientific and demands the most savvy of businessman. I say this because in order to opera...

By Quinton Figueroa

Who Really Got The Better Deal, Google or MSN?

Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion. MSN puts an offer in on Yahoo for $44.6 billion. I mean, yeah, Yahoo is a great company and all but why does MSN keep missing these obvious things l...

By Quinton Figueroa

You're Still Not Using Drupal? Top 8 Reasons To Download Drupal

I should consider becoming a salesman for Drupal because I am always talking about how good it is. But it really is. If you are not using Drupal you have 2 options: ...

By Quinton Figueroa

Not Just A Plug, But Also A Lesson - TruthControl.com

The Plug I have recently launched the new site www.truthcontrol.com. It's a site about Aliens, UFOs, Mysteries, Conspiracies and stuff like that. While browsing through the net r...

By Quinton Figueroa

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Why Most Websites Don't Make Money

Why are there so many people that can build a web site, but so few that can actually make money from it? Why is it that there are all these web development firms out there who specialize in ...

By Quinton Figueroa

The iPhone Is The Best Phone Ever!

I usually don't post about tech stuff but ever since purchasing the iPhone I can not resist. Reasons why the iPhone is better than your phone: You can sync email (Gmail baby!) on it s...

By Quinton Figueroa

Drupal VS Joomla VS Wordpress - Which Is The Best CMS?

Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress are the 3 most popular content management systems according to Alexa and most webmasters. They all have their own blend of features and options that allow for...

By Quinton Figueroa

The Web Really Isn't The Place To Be Artistic (At Least If You Want To Make Money)

I hate to break it to designers and all the artistic people out there, but if you want to make money online your site is going to be primarily focused on usability and delivering content and...

By Quinton Figueroa

A Serious End To Internet Explorer

Somehow us web developers have really got to seriously do something about IE. I don't know what it is, but I really can't take it anymore. I am sick of developing hacks, work-arounds and oth...

By Quinton Figueroa

Hedge Your SEO - How To Dominate The Search Engines

Let's talk about something most SEO's don't talk about because most SEO's aren't entrepreneurs. Search Engine Facts Search engines judge the ranking of a site based of...

By Quinton Figueroa

The Internet is the New Real Estate

With domain names increasing in value an average of 400% per year it is no surprise that the Internet is the new real estate. We are living in such a great time online right now. I just wake...

By Quinton Figueroa

I Can't Take It Anymore... Does Every SEO / Internet Marketer Think Like An Employee?

Everywhere I go online I am finding "traffic experts" that think using other people's assets to build their low quality business is the smartest thing ever. I really don't get it. Pretty muc...

By Quinton Figueroa

Damn You IE, Internet Explorer is the Worst Freaking Browser Ever

Every web developer has to get pissed off about IE at one point or another in their life and I am no different. IE is such a piece of trash. I have hated it for years and every day I hate it...

By Quinton Figueroa

12 ways to turn your Web 1.0 site into a Web 2.0 site

This isn't the 80's. The Internet is now a part of everyone's life so shouldn't your archaic beast for a site also be? The answer is yes if you enjoy growth. In spirit of how badass Web 2...

By Quinton Figueroa

Hitting the Digg Homepage is 10% Content, 90% Contacts

By this article not hitting the Digg homepage it will prove my point as being true. You can't hit the Digg homepage with a quality article on its own, you have to have some type of existing ...

By Quinton Figueroa

Why Managing Multiple Drupal Sites is Beneficial

Besides the more obvious reasons of having more sites to work with and more assets to leverage managing multiple Drupal sites can be beneficial for a number of reasons. It forces you ...

By Quinton Figueroa

The Secrets on How to Build and Theme a Drupal Web Site

Building a Drupal Web Site can be a very scary task to both beginner and experienced web designers. I have been building and theming Drupal web sites for about 2 years now and during this ti...

By Quinton Figueroa

Why do almost all blogs use a slash "/" at the end of their URLs?

I guess I somewhat know the answer to blogs using / at the end of the URLs, but I don't fully understand it. From my understanding, this is more search engine friendly because it is showi...

By Quinton Figueroa

The #1 SEO Mistake everyone makes

Go here and see if you can spot it: http://www.outdooradventuresmagazine.com/article.php?id=81 Did you find it? It's lack of direction. This site has quality that no oth...

By Quinton Figueroa

The Internet has opened up hyper-learning

It really has, and it's insane. Just 10 years ago if you were looking to increase your knowledge in a specific area you would most likely order some books or take a few college courses. T...

By Quinton Figueroa

CSS Wishlist For 2007

Being a web guy I am constantly working with CSS and after a while I start to come across things that could be improved, or that don't make sense. A lot of the time I will compare it to t...

By Quinton Figueroa

A Good Website Is a Smart Website

Through the many years of my web design and development career I have seen thousands of web sites and taken in tons of different aspects of all of them. Many trends have come and gone and...

By Quinton Figueroa

What Every Drupal Developer Should Know

When you first get started with Drupal it can be extremely intimidating as there are many options, modules and things goin on. This guide will help show you some of the most important par...

By Quinton Figueroa

Why Blogging Makes Sense

I have recently really started to get into blogging because, well, it makes sense. Yes I know people have been doing it for years on end but I'm slow to react to this type of thing and ju...

By Quinton Figueroa

Forget the Discovery Channel, Forget CNN, I'm watching Google Video

Google video is a Godsend to those of use who love watching education shows on certain topics. I used to love watching some type of show about scienc...

By Quinton Figueroa

1 big web site or 100 small web sites?

Is it in your best interest to build 1 authority site that completely dominates an industry or 100 smaller niche oriented sites that satisfy content for smaller niche industries? ...

By Quinton Figueroa

10 Reasons why it makes sense to use a Blog or CMS for most web sites

I have noticed in the last few years pretty much everyone that is serious about the web is switching to some type of blog or CMS (content management system) format with their website - an...

By Quinton Figueroa

The Similarities Between the Internet and Real Estate

The more I engross myself in the Internet, the more I find the parallel traits that exist between it and real estate. 1. The Planning The whole construction process o...

By Quinton Figueroa

Politics would be better with Google's PageRank

For those that do not know, PageRank is Google's way of measuring the importance of a web page based off the quality and number of incoming links pointing to it. Each link that points to ...

By Quinton Figueroa

Drupal is by far the best CMS!

I have been using Drupal for over a year now and everyday I just love it more and more. I am mainly a designer that also has programming experience so Drupal is a great match for me as ...

By Quinton Figueroa