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The NFT Art Market: NFTs explained for Artists

NFTs explained for artists

At this point even people who live under rocks are aware, I think, that blockchain technology has disrupted the world of currency—and probably even that NFTs (non-fungible tokens) have been disrupting sales of art this year. In fact, sales of NFTs have soared to a staggering high. The wow factor started with the sale of […]

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Restore Net Neutrality—or suffer

net neutrality prevents tollgate-jams in the internet

What do we stand to lose if the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to repeal net neutrality is not overturned by the proposed Congressional Review Act? Why we need a yes vote from the House of Representatives and what you can do.

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The Gig Economy: do we love it?

Is the new gig economy like white water rafting?

I read something recently to the effect that our being required “to continually reinvent ourselves for work and to anticipate constant change and to celebrate that as freedom” is the ultimate tyranny. Some thoughts on whether tyranny and freedom are mutually exclusive…

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Google wants you to migrate to HTTPS

Google warning of October deadline for migrating to HTTPS

Google is warning all owners of websites to migrate to HTTPS to improve the security of online activity. Failure to make this change before October will result in red warnings appearing on insecure web pages and a drop in page-rank for your website. Migrate before October to protect your website’s security and effectiveness.

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Best Image Sizes for Your Website or Blog

what size should my images be for the web?

Every image situation on a website is different but you always want your images to look good and to load quickly. Here we consider different priorities for different situations to help you get the best results for your website.

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how to resize images for your website in photoshop

resizing images in Photoshop

If you upload images from your camera directly to your website, you’ll probably end up with one or both of the following two problems: (i) the images will be extremely large in terms of file-size and make your page load slowly (this is annoying to your visitors and will cause people to abandon your site […]

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optimizing images for search engines

Better search engine optimization for images could have prevented images of the man with unruly hair appearing in image searches for Harriet Young.

If you are having a website developed for you or if you are developing one yourself, it is worth paying attention to how the images that show up in Google image search get to be there. Not just for image-search but for the general search engine optimization of your image-rich pages.

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why does my website break?

Why is my website broken?

Why does my website break? This seems like a good question to address for Halloween because it spooks people when their perfectly fine website suddenly ceases to work. Or even appear. It makes people wonder if someone has hacked into their site and done damage but generally that’s not the case. What’s much more likely is that some software in the chain between your website and your browser has changed and has created an incompatibility with your website’s previously-fine code.

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