Choosing the Right Smilies

September 19, 2007 Posted by Tyler Cruz

As the owner and operator of 10 forums, I’ve had the repeated and inevitable task of adding new smilies to my forums to cater to my members’ interest. While I’ve added many hundreds of smilies in my lifetime as a forum administrator, I had never really taken the time to look at the fine details and characteristics […]

Posted: September 19th, 2007 under Articles 8 Comments

Online Thieves

September 17, 2007 Posted by Tyler Cruz

“A thief believes everybody steals.” — Edward W. Howe I’ve had this blog post on my list for close to half a year, but kept putting it off because it angered me too much to think about it. I’ll get right to the point and start right off the bat with an example. Below is […]

Posted: September 17th, 2007 under Articles 21 Comments

Top 9 Ways to Improve Your Blog

September 15, 2007 Posted by Tyler Cruz

I originally wanted to make this a top-10 list for obvious reasons, but the truth is that I couldn’t come up with a good 10th reason, so I’m going to have to leave it at 9. Here they are in descending order of importance: 1. Update Regularly and Consistently I believe hands down that the […]

Posted: September 15th, 2007 under Articles 14 Comments

The Rarest Commodity: The Programmer

August 19, 2007 Posted by Tyler Cruz

Nearly a year ago I wrote a great post titled The Rarest Commodity: The Web Designer where I shared my views on how I feel that quality web designers are a dying and rare breed, and how the lack of talent available hurts my work. I’d like to now voice my opinion on another dying breed: […]

Posted: August 19th, 2007 under Articles 29 Comments