Posts Tagged ‘website’

How to Hire A Web Design Firm

How many times have you heard stories of people who hired web firms to design and develop their web sites and either got substandard sites or the developer ran off with their money? Or what about the entrepreneur who "hired" his nephew/friend/daughter to design the site for free, and the results were disasterous and this small business owner didn't feel comfortable offering much constructive criticism on a job done for… Continue reading

July 3 2009 | By Susan | Tagged: entrepreneur, home-based-business, small business, web-design, website | 5 comments»

5 Components Your Business Web Site Needs

Last week I talked about why a strong web site is crucial to your business. Today I'm going to talk about five components your web site needs and why you need them. Bear in mind, however, that these five aren't the only components you need. At the end of the article, I'll mention a couple of other things you may want to include. Now, you can't just slap these components… Continue reading

June 17 2009 | By Susan | Tagged: content, entrepreneur, home-based-business, small business, website | 13 comments»

How to Build Credibility on the Web

There are literally millions of voices on the Internet. Blogs, Social networks, micromessaging services like Twitter, instant messaging services, email, wikis, forums, and dozens of technologies I haven’t even heard of – and dozens more to come – give us all an unprecedented ability to be heard. But with all those voices clamoring for attention, how do you stand out from the crowd? More importantly, once you get someone’s attention, how… Continue reading

September 22 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: blogging, credibility, internet, self-promotion, twitter, website | 23 comments»

Getting Lifehack Done: Global Collaboration

Somewhere around 3 dozen people, scattered across the globe from Hong Kong across the US to the UK, Europe, and beyond work together to bring you the collection of useful tips, thought pieces, and inspiration known as Lifehack. I thought it might be interesting to our readers to learn a little bit about what goes on “behind the scenes” at a big site like this – the… Continue reading

August 29 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: collaboration, Lifehack, project, team, website, work | 5 comments»

Readers Recommend: 15 More Productivity Blogs You Probably Never Heard Of

Last week, I recommended over 60 productivity blogs, from the big name sites to some of the little-known discoveries I’d made in my travels through the productivity Web. At the end, I asked readers to recommend the sites that they’d come across that they felt deserved wider recognition, and this is what you came up with.

Aim for Awesome: Vern Lovic shares his simple recipe for life (“smiles +

July 21 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: community, link, Productivity, website | 24 comments»

50+ Personal Productivity Blogs You’ve Never Heard of Before (and about a dozen you probably have)

The personal productivity niche on the Web has grown by leaps and bounds since Lifehack launched only a few years ago. While a few sites dominate the rankings, there are lots and lots of lesser-known sites that are as good or even better than the "A-list" productivity blogs. Most of them are solo operations -- the GTD newbie documenting his or her quest for greater control over their life, the coach… Continue reading

July 16 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: blog, coach, link, Productivity, website | 80 comments»

The Productivity Family Tree

Famous families are all around us, from the Clinton dynasty to Mylie and Billy Ray Cyrus. They evoke in us so many things because we can relate, on some small level, to them. Not that many of our daughters are famous pop singers or that many of our parents are presidents. Sometimes we hate the very mention of family and at other times the thought warms our… Continue reading

May 13 2008 | By Mike | Tagged: Productivity, website | 8 comments»

20 References That Aren’t Wikipedia

I find Wikipedia to be a great starting point for online research, but you can't really use it in your writing. Scholastici.us has 20 other suggestions that you could actually reference legitimately. Encylopedia Britannica - I know it seems awfully “old school” but this site is an excellent source of information and much more authoritative than Wikipedia. What are you suggestions? Beyond Wikipedia: 20 References You Can’t Do

September 13 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: research, website, wiki | 3 comments»

Schoolr: Google, Wikipedia, Dictionary.com, and more on one site

Okay, so most of us are out of school, but Schoolr can still be of great use. Schoolr is a site that ties the functionality of Google, Wikipedia, Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, Reference.com, a citation builder, foreign language translator, unit converter, and a book summary into one website. The idea is very simple, Schoolr is a simple one page website with all this functionality built right… Continue reading

March 19 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: Technology, web2.0, website | 6 comments»

Check the Weather - and Disasters

Before deciding on a destination for your last minute trip, why not consult The Havaria World Disaster Map to make sure you're not heading into trouble. It's quite impressively up to date, chronicling anything like extreme weather to a biological hazard. Earthquake and volcano activity is also documented, as well as airplane accidents out of the US.

The Havaria World Disaster Map - Via [Moleskinerie]… Continue reading

March 16 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: travel, weather, website | 1 comment»

Add comments to any Web site

zpeech is an application that lets you add comments to any Web site. All you need to do is add "zpeech.com" to the first part of a Web site's domain name. Checkout http://zpeech.com/lifehack.org and you will see a message I left. Like I said, this works on any Web site, even Web sites without a built in commenting system. Give it a try and let… Continue reading

February 21 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: application, online, Technology, website | 150 comments»

How To Choose A Domain Name

What's in a name? Does it define your website or is the domain just a placeholder? Like many others, I'm currently in the process of choosing domain names, and it's no fun. Chris Garret simpathises in this article describing why he chose chrisg.com and what you should take into consideration when registering your domain. When choosing a domain name there are some factors to consider:

How original and unique is it?
How descriptive is

February 12 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: web, website, websites | 7 comments»

Find a rental

TenantMarket is a Web site with the goal of matching landlords with tenants. As described by Emily Chang, it appears to be the "Match.com for apartments." When looking for a rental in a new city, I had a great experience with rent.com and apartmentfinder.com. I wish I had know about this service back then. Here is the description from TenantMarket: Renters: Tell landlords what you… Continue reading

February 8 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: apartment, household, rental, website | 2 comments»

Next Generation Recipe Sharing

One day, my Mom sat down with me and shared a dozen family recipes from both sides of the family. In there are things like tortierre (sp?) pie, a famous French pork pie with potatoes and enough cholesterol to kill you after one slice. There's also my favorite date balls (dates, rice, and coconut, but I forget the rest). A dozen whole recipes that came off smeared, dirty, bent and… Continue reading

August 28 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: food, nick+senzee, recipe, sharing, software, web2.0, website | 1 comment»

Empower Students with mynoteIT.com

I had a chance recently to review mynoteIT, which comes off as a kind of Backpack for students. But what's great about it (and where I think Alex and Justin Weidmann have hit a home run with this product) is that they've specialized the program. It's truly built for students. Listen to some of these features: