Wayne, Author at Kessler Freedman, Inc. Web Development

18 Years In Business

Posted June 24, 2014 For Everyone, Interesting Stuff Tagged 18 years in business, Internet, pre-bubble Internet, web business, web design business, web development business

Warning: this post is more of a recognition of the last 18 years than about anything useful going forward. I know, sometimes past is future.

Essentially, Stealing PDFs

Posted June 9, 2014 For Everyone, Interesting Stuff

One of the annoying things we’re seeing more and more of these days are sites allowing the copying of PDFs from the original publisher and placing them on their server as part of some sort of “library”. All they are trying to do is benefit from search engine traffic to their site for somebody else’s […]

Goodbye, PicoSearch

Posted May 28, 2014 For Everyone, Interesting Stuff Tagged content management systems, Google, PicoSearch, search engine, site search, Spiderline

Earlier this year we found out that PicoSearch, a subscription website search service, was ending service after 17 years. It’s been a good search engine to plug into a site for years, but Google and others have conquered this service niche. They stop service as of June 30, 2014. We have a few clients still today that use PicoSearch. So what to use next?

The PAC Contribution Cart

Posted May 9, 2014 For Associations, Interesting Stuff Tagged associations, contributions, donations, PAC, political action committee, shopping cart, volunteer

I have been looking for a shopping cart for an association to use with a variety of online payment gateways that has some customization of value for a political action committee contribution campaign.

For Our Wild Apricot Clients

Posted April 11, 2014 For Associations, Interesting Stuff, Wild Apricot Tagged association web site, associations, bonasource, society web site, websites, Wild Apricot

In May of 2014 Bonasource, Inc., will begin releasing the anticipated upgrade to their Wild Apricot software-as-a-service.