Oakley Studio Weblog

My 2008 MacBook Air laptop died over Thanksgiving weekend, and I was pretty sure it was a hard drive failure, so Friday over lunch I took it to the Apple Store over at University Park Mall in Mishawaka, Indiana. Bad idea. You’ll recall that the Friday after Thanksgiving is known as “Black Friday” …

As I am writing this post Wednesday morning, several Oakley Studio client web sites are unreachable. (Don’t worry — they’ll likely be back by the time you read this.) These sites became unreachable because  Domain Name System (DNS) servers providing essential domain name routing information have gone missing. This is a Twitter success story as much as [...]

I’m always pleased when any of my client’s web sites “graduate” to a higher level of hosting. Sustained increases in traffic to your site indicate you’ve attracted more readership, that your marketing efforts are paying off, that other web sites are linking to yours, and you are getting good ranking at the big search sites like Google, Yahoo and Bing.

It is really simple to associate an image with your email address, and create a brand identity on the internet. Use it on your own WordPress blog and with other sites and services throughout the web.

One reason behind the steady rise of Macintosh computers in recent years is that Microsoft Windows has been fraught with so many viruses, malware, spamware, keyloggers and trojans. The Mac operating system remains virtually free of computer virus infections, and most Mac users do not bother running any kind of virus protection software on their Macs at all. But a trojan named “Flashback” is the first real threat to Macintosh security.

Oakley Studio has been designing, building, and hosting custom web sites for small and home-based businesses since 1996, and over the years costs for custom web site design have been going up… and up… and up… How does any small business these days afford to have a web site they can manage without a lot of webmaster intervention? Weblogging is the answer!