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The URL colorado.CommunityColor.com was too long, so I bought a new short URL for my Colorado directory project. The URL is CoDir.us . Ari...

SVG is a graphic presented in text. It is possible to embed SVG in any site that allows you to post large blocks of HTML. This post tests th...

I want to start including advanced features from HTML 5 in my web projects. I am interested in using SVG for graphing and mapping applicatio...

If blogspot is considered a low rent district on the Internet; I think one should call Tumblr the Trailer Park of the Internet. Like blogs...

It is the end of the year. Would you like to buy some unused ad inventory in the Mountain West (Arizona, Colorado, Utah)? I admit 2013 wa...

The Online Christmas Season is coming to an end. Ground shipping can take two weeks, express shipping makes gifts too expensive. It is fooli...

Cyber week was a complete bust. I did not get a single sale. Sniff, sniff. I had wasted a bunch of time uploading coupons to the sites. I ...

Black Friday was a bust. My take for the day was a whopping 69 cents. Since the focus of Community Color is small local business, I was p...

My Small Business Saturday Link-A-Thon is going slowly. A sustainable small business community grows organically. Organic growth is slow. ...

It is Small Business Saturday. So, I figured I should do something to promote small businesses. I believe that promoting small independen...

I find Black Friday frustrating. I posted a ton of coupons and sales for the event, but I just don't get any Black Friday traffic. My...

It's official, the community directory Boulder Color just passed the 1000 active link mark. Boulder Color is a human edited directory. ...

I maintain a collection of independent directories for the mountain west ( Durango , Moab , Salt Lake City , etc ). This is a labor intensiv...

My web host was hacked and infected with an injection script. The injection script added a snippet of javascript to every file in my accou...

Hi all. I am auctioning two domains on GoDaddy . The auction will end early next week. The domains are LinksAlive.com and BaitShop.us . W...

It is beautiful out today. Wouldn't it be great to own a business that allowed you to engage in recreation on beautiful days like toda...

I added a mapping feature to Protophoto.com . The feature uses static maps generated by Open Street Map . If I understand the license correc...

Tumblr allows their program to run under the URL given by end users. So I decided to change the tumblr URL UtahColor.tumblr.com to tumbl...

To help create a well rounded image for my web sites, I started running pictures through a circular filter and uploading them to twitpic . T...

I've been playing with the photo sharing site Tumblr. I decide to open the pictures on ProtoPhoto to sharing. Here is how the sharing ...