Author Archives: Martin

I have been coding my own designs for about 3 years now. During that time, I have been learning the advantages of standards-based designing. Since I care about accessibility for everyone on the web, I both offer my web site creation services, as well as this site’s tips & tricks, and the latest business and technology web articles.

And as a member of the GAWDs and Web Standards Group.
As a member of the Web Standards Group, as well as membership in the Guild of Accessible Web Designers, I strive to achieve maximum website accessibility in my designs, while using the latest, cutting-edge eXtensible HyperText Mark-up Language/CSS markup.

My sites fully validate with the W3C standards for XHTML/CSS, as well as comply with the W3C’s WAI – A, AA, or AAA standards.

Separation of Content from presentation and a site that fully complies with this philosophy – will reach more than just your intended audience, it’ll reach everyone! Web standards at FierceStreet Networks is all about usability – XHTML for content, and CSS for presentation.

Twitter Was Hacked!

December 18, 2009 – 7:46 am

Last night about 10:55pm, Twitter was hacked. I’ve taken a screen print of their homepage. You can see it here.
No mention in the mainstream media about it tho…

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Web Hosting That Is Right For You

October 5, 2009 – 8:08 pm

Every company needs a website. And every website needs to be hosted. And with so many choices of web hosts in the market today, it is really hard to make
a well informed decision as to what cheap web hosting company to go with. And for those of you who want to
"get in" on offering hosting [...]

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Internet Advertising Lifts Sales 4x Faster Than TV Advertising, comScore Chair

September 15, 2009 – 1:59 pm
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Social Marketing 101

August 13, 2009 – 8:31 pm

photo credit: blacktar
Hello All, I wanted to blog briefly about a website that is a niched on a passion of mine. I love my German Shepherd Dogs, and so I created a site in that niche.
But the really interesting part about it is that site is one of my own personal “big sites” – [...]

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Changing The Wine World (and Marketing too!)

August 2, 2009 – 4:02 pm

Here is one voice that is changing – not only the wine world, but internet marketing as well. I follow him on Twitter, and so should you!
Here’s Gary Vaynerchuk:
Embedded video from CNN Video

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Back To Basic(s)

July 29, 2009 – 11:32 pm

It’s been awhile, I must admit, since I hand coded a site from scratch. I guess life has been too busy, and with SEO being pretty much a cash cow, my designing has gone to the left for awhile.

photo credit: thejbird

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Search Engine Optimization Advice

June 3, 2009 – 6:28 pm

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Everyone wants to know “the secret” to successful Internet Marketing. I always get questions on such topics as, “who can beat Google?” and,  “How can I get to the top of the search engine rankings?”. Well, I could post my search engine optimisation advice on this blog, which I do from [...]

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Why Marketing Sucks

May 14, 2009 – 11:30 am

I have always wondered why I’m paranoid when it comes to marketing my websites. Not that what I do is black hat or anything, but it always makes me cringe with every link I add – because of the Big Google Overlords…
photo credit: Yodel Anecdotal
Don’t they just suck?

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WordPress CMS Rocks!

January 15, 2009 – 1:17 pm

One of my 2009 resolutions is to become a WordPress Guru. I have many websites running under WordPress, and know my way around to tweak what I need to out of them. And even creating custom themes for those sites is something I can do easily.

photo credit: Eric Setiawan
But, as far as the inner [...]

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New Year Designs

January 12, 2009 – 10:28 pm

It’s 2009. Wow. Life kinda sucks right now…but the design must go on!

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