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This is Answermen's simple blog - where we share the smarts that we pickup along our way. You'll find answers to help with marketing, advertising, technology and even a few general items - in the General Sidebar.

Simple Answers to Big Questions

We create a lot of short tutorials for our clients. Whether its a quick run through the Joomla! admin menus or a feature review of a custom module we created in Drupal - we prefer creating short demos instead of writing the explanation out long hand - ouch.

A very useful tip from EggRage on how to get your latest blog post indexed very quickly by Google. WordPress has an area in the “Writing” section of the admin settings where you can add a list of sites that it will ping when a new post has been published.

We’ve been using Typetester - a great, free online application to view and compare screen fonts with multiple variations. It provides a list of web-safe, Windows and Mac fonts as well as all fonts currently installed in your system. This is a great too for web design and development pros to quickly visualize the impact of font decisions. Remember to click the “Get CSS for 1st, 2nd, 3rd column” link for a clean chunk of CSS code.