By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Over at WebUrbanist they have a great post up this morning that focuses on wild shoes designs. Wild as in crazy, not what the Yettis wear.

After getting half of the way through the piece and realizing that all of these…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

If you host your site on a box that has Web Host Manager (WHM) or cPanel on it this post is for you.

Since quite a few independent developers, indie hosting companies and startups do, I…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

If you really want to know what made the iPhone such a game changing device you need look no further than the fact that it challenged every concept of what a mobile phone was.

By challenging concepts and executing ideas…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

I think it is still too early in the rise of Facebook for it have a rival or great competitor that comes from nothing.

Social networking startup would have a very hard time duplicating Facebook’s rapid success and string of…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

I’m using the home page at GigaOm as of this moment for inspiration of this post. I’ve always admired the consistent high quality they’ve been able to produce over the years.

There are two posts…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

This one is pretty simple but yet it conveys to readers that your post has been updated.

Duh, right? Well it is a bit more complicated than you think.

Once a post hits an RSS feed…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

My developer challenge of the day was to hide my own URL shortener for a ‘trusted brand’ in Bit.ly.

To do this I needed to learn their API as it isn’t as simple as TinyURL or…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

I love quirky products that designers create for themselves and then realize there is a market for them.

It reminds me of the fads of the 80’s with wacky wall walkers (not that anyone really needed those things,…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

It sounds like a pitch from the pre-ubiquitous days of broadband but it is still true in many ways.

So this quick tip comes to you as a way to add a little more speed to…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Now you’re getting off the ground and ready to begin telling the world all about your sweet new widget. That’s ‘widget’ in the business school sense of widget. It’s time to flip the switch on that organic traffic pump.

The…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Internet type Max Klein shared an great story on his posterous site yesterday called, “Treat the users of your software like dogs.”

What Klein addresses in his post is a little trick…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Ron Jones over at Search Engine Watch has written a very important comprehensive explanation of RSS for newbies.

It covers the who, what, where, when and…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Look, people visit your site for the content. They don’t come for the ads, sharing or discovery of Lil’ Wayne tunes through static footer divs.

There are quite a few ways to ruin a Read the full story »

Tags: facebooking , Glue , Shopping cart , static div footer , static div layer , static footer div , stumbling , tweeting , User experience design

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Startup folks often find themselves working all the time and much of that on tangential ideas that come from the process of working on one idea. The 99%’ers are here to help with that.

The 99% conference is held by…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

You can still aim to be number one in your market from day one, but I want you to think about being a solid performer for now.

I’m talking about grinding it out everyday like it’s the third period with…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

How many times have you read a title to a blog post from an RSS feed, tweet or widget and thought, “OMG, I have to read that”, only to find out that when you read the post that the content…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Today, as I am sure you have noticed, I’m short on my five blog posts a day by about . . . um, five. That is until now.

I’ve been down with a bug all day and feeling a little…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

The idea economy operates like this – ideas are cheap . . . free in most cases.

For there to be haves and have-nots in this economy their originator is required to find a way to generate revenue from them.…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Sure, you’ll have to get yourself setup with two data plans but if you really love using your iPhone this is a solution for you.

Anyone that has been standing in the same place as 100 or more iPhone users…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Some of you may already be doing this and it surely isn’t breaking news, but for one on one software demos nothing beats Skype.

The visual and the voice are integrated, clear and screen size is optional. It doesn’t get much better…