DesignHammer Media Group LLC Managing Partner David Minton has been appointed to the Orange County Buy Local Task Force. DesignHammer contributed the website for the Orange County Buy Local campaign, and Minton will work on the Task Force to help leverage the capabilities of the online business directory.

It was twenty years ago that two scientist working at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, Switzerland, developed a plan for a computer network combining hypertext, and the Internet, that evolved into what we know today as the World Wide Web, or simply, the Web.

A new web-based service will offer a wealth of information, including graphing, of the most read pages on Wikipedia. The service has a very slick user interface, and looks to be a great source for gauging interest in different subjects.

Is it ok to copy entire articles from other websites? If not what about parts, and what is this whole "fair use" thing anyway?

What could Usability, Accessibility, and SEO (search engine optimization) have in common? Besides industry jargon that website designers/developers need to know, they are in some ways three aspects of the same process.

If a newly sponsored North Carolina Senate Bill becomes law, anyone posting false or defamatory material on their website should tread carefully. Senate Bill 46, entitled An Act to Make It Unlawful to Communicate False, Defamatory Material That is Libelous or Slanderous Through an Electronic Medium, would provide online publishers ten days to remove material, and post an apology once notified of the transgression, or face a Class 2 misdemeanor.