Lawn Gnome

An online marketing blog by Daniel J. Donovan.











My name is Daniel J. Donovan. This is my blog.
I write about internet marketing, technology, online strategy, communications and photography.


Entries Tagged as 'WordPress'

Improving Customer Experience on Your Site – Part 1 – 404’s

March 14th, 2010 · View Comments · WordPress, customer focus, online marketing

We’ve all seen it many, many times. You click a link or type a URL and instead of seeing a nice page, you are submitted to a cryptic (and unhelpful) 404 Error Message like this one:

Don’t bludgeon your poor visitors with error pages like this. Remember, your competition is only a click away. It doesn’t [...]

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Beyond Arial and Helvetica

March 3rd, 2010 · View Comments · WordPress, technology

Way way back “in the day” I did tech support for Word. I worked for a company here in Massachusetts; we had to pretend we worked for Microsoft. One of the questions we would often get was how to save a document so that when it was emailed to someone, the font information was preserved, [...]

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