CMS is a Beautiful Thing, or Confucianism Part IV

“Good people distinguish things in terms of categories and groups.” In prior Confucianism-inspired posts, we talked about the benefits of using Content Management (CMS) at your website. We’ve made the case for organizing, ordering, and arranging web pages, so now onto breaking bottlenecks in controlling costs and maintaining efficiency while moving forward with today’s standards…. Continue reading →

From Web Pages to Web Sites, or Confuciansim Part III

“Good people order and arrange” Had enough Confucius yet? ‘Cause that old dude had the Internet pegged! Remember the days of the coal-and-steam-powered internet, when you had to walk miles in the snow to a university to make changes to your website, and ration your disk space usage because there wasn’t enough to go around?… Continue reading →

A History of Web Content & Confucianism

“Study the Past if You Would Divine the Future” Confucius would say: The Internet is a Big Deal. And Big Deals Change, but then return to whence they came. Or something like that. The Internet has been “around” now for several decades. We can trace its beginning to when Tim Berners-Lee “invented” it (and no,… Continue reading →

scams…. I get ’em too

[ADDENDUM, 2009.01.09: There is another scam out there which attempts to get you to pay more for your domain, and possibly transfer it to a different domain registrar. It usually comes in the form of a postal mail from a very official sounding name, like National Domain Protectors or US Domain Registry Keepers. I’ve uploaded… Continue reading →

trust and the internet business relationship

Dear client, prospect, vendor, partner, team-member, or casual web surfer: At CDLLC, we constantly strive to keep everyone in the family satisfied, and in the process, each client places a lot of trust in CDLLC, for which we are very grateful. We also understand that it can be quite nerve-wracking to be that new client,… Continue reading →

“HELP!!!! My Internet/Email is Broken!!”

“My Internet is Broken,” is perhaps the most common tech support request experienced by Information Technology professionals since the emergence of AOL, Mindspring, and Earthlink. AOL and Mindspring/Earthlink came along and offered the previously super-nerd-accessible-only INTERNET to the masses. There were two major results: This accelerated internet usage to the point where we are today…. Continue reading →

What is a “Cult-Neutral” Consultant, and why does everyone keep telling me to get one?

The CDLLC Alliance consists entirely of Cult-Neutral Consultants. huh? Think of Vendor Neutral consultants- they have no motivation to sell you THEIR single product. Vendor Neutral consultants can properly align their objectives with your business goals. So here is the deal about Culure Neutral Consultants: All great businesses- ranging from Google, to Yahoo, W. L…. Continue reading →

What’s SQL Injection? Some new drug or something?

In a nutshell, “SQL injection” is a way to hack into a website, break it, or otherwise make a big mess of it. SQL is a database language, that uses statements like INSERT, DELETE, and UPDATE. Think of SQL injection as analogous to Microsoft’s buffer overflow problems (you know those windows updates that you get… Continue reading →