by Marcia Bolsinga
Nowadays, many of us maintain our own blogs or websites, using various tools, either on our computer or online. Over the past 3 or 4 years that I’ve been creating websites, one of the issues raised by many frustrated users in user forums is “I don’t...
by Marcia Bolsinga
When web sites first starting popping up in the 1990s, they were mostly text, with some formatting and styling. Truth be known, many of those first websites were pretty ugly (my own among them.) We could choose colors, or make text bold, add a picture, and even...
by Marcia Bolsinga
We’ve been conditioned to worry about the security of our personal information while surfing the web. Perhaps the most important and effective security practice is to be prudent and sparing when sharing important information. As web site users and web site...
by Marcia Bolsinga
Go ahead, admit it – you remember the song… “C is for Cookie, that’s good enough for me.” One of my favorite Sesame Street characters as our children were growing up. In another use of cookies, a friend exclaimed recently that she had...
by Marcia Bolsinga
Web pages have a basic, bricks and mortar, foundation. It’s called HTML – short for HyperText Markup Language. So, here’s a trivia/history question for fellow Mac enthusiasts. Do you remember an early Mac application called HyperCard? This was...
by Marcia Bolsinga
So, I’m sitting on a dock in the Adirondack Mountains in northern New York state, with my laptop and a semi-reliable wireless connection from a cabin up the hill. I type in ashmug.com in Firefox, and in seconds our nifty web site appears on my computer screen....