Great Business Websites Need Great Web Designers

The relationship between a business and a web designer tends to be a difficult one. It is rare that people who run a business understand what is involved in web design and operating on the Internet. Often web designers see business owners as either: 1) disconnected and unrealistic about Internet work. Or 2), too involved with the meaningless details of a web site and too worried about costs too reap the full rewards of Internet marketing. When the relationship between … [Read more...]

Group Therapy: Pros and Cons

Group therapy became popular in the nineteen forties. It started out with enthusiastic support from most counselors in the field of psychology. Its popularity waned when long-term individual therapy came into style, but in the sixties, it regained popularity, particularly in the field of addiction. At that time—theoretically at least—patients had to reach the very bottom of the barrel of misery in their lives before they could begin the long climb back up … [Read more...]

The History of the Cookie (The One You Can Eat)

The Merriam Webster dictionary defines a cookie as a “small flat or slightly raised cake”. Merriam Webster also defines a cookie as "a small file or part of a file stored on a World Wide Web user's computer". That type of cookie is not much fun to put in your mouth. What we are going to talk about is the history of the cookie you can eat. To begin with, 'a cookie', to many people (especially those who grew up in another country) is an unfamiliar … [Read more...]

How to Ensure Your Blog Has a Professional Feel

Most people who start their own blog do so with the intention of getting their words and thoughts out to the masses. Often the idea is to set themselves up as an authority on the subject that they write about so that they can then turn around and perhaps recommend certain products that will make them a little bit of money from affiliate marketing. Blogging has come a long way since its early days when people just used them as an online journal, but what hasn’t … [Read more...]

Family Ties: How Much Distance Is Enough?

People often hear about close families and the fun they have together. It’s easy to think that being close with other family members is always a good thing, but as with other types of relationships, family bonds can become too close and can even become destructive. A look at family systems can help to identify the dynamic that operates in your family system. Family Systems Each family is a group that constructs its own rules and ways of interacting. These … [Read more...]