Yesterday’s news regarding Microsoft’s offer to buy out Yahoo shouldn’t surprise anyone. LiveSearch is almost irrelevant as a search engine, and MSN has seen declining traffic in the latter half [...]
About Michael Lankton
Have you been a bass player in a hardcore punk band? Built stroker Harleys? Have you been in a fight this month? Written an article about SEO that somehow managed to turn into a social commentary editorial? Mike has. Since 2007 Mike has been sharing his unique worldview with Connected Internet readers. Stop back to see what Mike is thinking about next week.
4 Exceptional Commercial WordPress Themes
WordPress has not enjoyed a large community of commercial theme designers. You can’t swing a dead cat on the internet without hitting a free WordPress theme, and most of the [...]
Joomla! 1.5 Stable Released
Two and a half years of development came to fruition today, when it was announced that Joomla! 1.5 Stable was made available for download. Joomla! 1.5 is a major rewrite [...]
W3C Publishes First Public Working Draft Of HTML 5
Yesterday the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) published the first public working draft for the next revision of the HTML standard, HTML 5. HTML 5 is backwards compatible with HTML [...]
Move Over Alexa, Here Comes IZEARanks
The problem with web metrics provided by Alexa and Compete is that their numbers are totally dependent on what they gather from users who are using their Firefox and Internet [...]
First Look At WordPress 2.5
WordPress is used by more readers of Connected Internet than any other blogging engine or content management system. WordPress 2.4 developed into so many changes to the system that a [...]
New Macbook Air, Power Mac From Apple
Two days into Apple’s annual week-long lovefest Macworld have seen two of the company’s flagship hardware products refreshed for 2008. The Macbook Air is a very slender Macbook. So slender [...]
Joomla 1.0.14RC1 Released
Joomla 1.0.14 RC1 was released today, bringing the CMS’ mature branch a step away from what is supposed to be the final release in the 1.0.x tree. Joomla is an [...]
ColorblindS WordPress Theme
While content is king, most of us give quite a bit of thought to our presentation. After all, the look of our web site is a big part of establishing [...]
5 Professional-looking Free WordPress Themes
Great content can lose momentum if it’s wrapped in a brown paper bag. Your site design impacts content layout, advertising space and most importantly, it influences how your readers perceive [...]
Are You Directing Traffic Or Just Watching It Go By?
Your web site’s home page is going to see more hits than any other section of your site. Even people surfing in from Google will make your homepage their second [...]
The Shot That Ended The Format War
I wrote a three part series on the Format War when I first started writing for Connected Internet, describing what the two formats were about, and what I thought were [...]
