Last month saw the roll-out of Google’s “Mobile Friendly” tag for searches initiated on smartphones and other mobile devices.  Now, when someone searches for something, like “princeton web design” on their smartphone, results will show a “Mobile Friendly” label in front of the site description.  It is part of an emphasis that Google is placing …

Ran across an issue today with HTML5 video tags and Internet Explorer and Firefox on Windows.  According to Microsoft, Internet Explorer (and I think any other browser running on Windows) will automatically orient the image based on the metadata of the device used to record it.  Supposedly, this would mean that if you record a …

Social Networking can be broadly described as communications between and among individuals utilizing Web sites and services that open these conversations to a larger audience. Often these communications are more timely, informal, brief and less refined than traditional business and marketing communications. They also lend to more personal and conversational approaches to the topics that …

Andrew Wilkinson of Wilkinson Media is a Princeton area photographer, videographer and all around creative genius who’s creative philosophy is to marry the creative energies of art and entrepreneurship. We’ve been fortunate to collaborate with Andrew on a number of projects, with Andrew providing photography for many of our client’s Web sites (as well as …

Microsoft recently switched users from their own blogging site to WordPress.com, a blogging service powered by the popular WordPress blogging/Content Management System (CMS) software. What is notable about this development to me is that Worpress is an “open source” project written in the non-Microsoft, PHP scripting language. There are several other takeaways from this development: The move …

The New York Times reports on the increasing number of federal lawsuits against tech and media companies utilizing “Flash cookies” to store information on their online behavior. At issue is that these companies used Adobe Flash, which is used to embed animations and movies on Web pages, to store and share information about users, including …

Starting in 2011, the IRS will require the report of PayPal and merchant account sales (over 200 transactions and over $20,000 revenue) through form 1099-K (draft). While this was reported back in March 2010, it was recently noted by Auction Bytes that PayPal is changing their user agreement accordingly. This will affect E-bay and Amazon …

I came across a presentation by Dustin Currie from Level Ten Interactive in Dallas, Texas on the topic of Drupal Agency Processes. I’ve embeded the video and included my notes on his presentation. Mr. Currie states that human interactions are the key challenges to Web development. These include stating expectations, determining what needs to be done, etc. It is this …

If you are a small business, its likely that most or all of your business comes from a certain geographic area, and that’s the truth for Inforest too. Even though we’ve worked for companies as far away as Japan, most of our clients are within a couple hours drive. Part of this is practical, but …