Latest News
Huberspace News | |
| July 1, 2012 | Huberspace celebrates 10 years in business! 10 years of making the Web a better place, one easy-to-use website at a time. |
| November 16, 2011 | "Taking a Closer Look at 'User-Friendly' Websites" presented by Jim Huber Jim shows why some people who claim to design "user-friendly" websites don't deliver on that promise. |
| September 23, 2011 | "Best Practices for a Basic Website" seminar presented by Jim Huber Jim talked about how to affordably make your basic business site at the GWU Ashburn campus. |
| June 12, 2011 | Ironic Website Techniques: presentation by Jim Huber Jim discusses techniques website owners and designers use to encourage behavior or results, but have the opposite effect. |
| January 21, 2011 | Loudoun Chamber Hosts First Mixer of 2011 Jim Huber talks to the Leesburg Patch about the effects of the economy on Loudoun businesses. And looks goofy in a photo. |
| June 16, 2010 | Huberspace answers "Is your business ready for the mobile Web?" Jim Huber talks to Loudoun Chamber networking group about mobile Web issues for small businesses. |
| April 27, 2010 | Huberspace sponsors website for annual Loudoun SBDC event Huberspace is Platinum Sponsor for "Building Business Together" conference. |
| November 18, 2009 | Hidden website problems revealed Huberspace owner identifies persistent website problems to Loudoun Network Alliance. |
| September 10, 2009 | Backdoor 4.0 released! Now add video and audio to your site. Security, error handling, and usability improvements. And more updates! |
| May 6, 2009 | Blind accessibility sites not just for visually-impaired Jim Huber gives eye-opening presentation to Loudoun LeadShare group about value of designing sites accessible to blind. |
| January 15, 2009 | Backdoor 3.0 Content Management System released The latest version includes text formatting, better usability, and lots of improvements. |
| October 24, 2008 | New site design for Huberspace unveiled At last, Huberspace.net gets a redesign! |
| September 17, 2008 | Jim Huber puts "users" on the spot Benefits of usability are shown by Huber to Loudoun Chamber networking group in Leesburg. |
| August 20, 2008 | Huberspace nominated for 2008 Small Business of the Year Award The Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce nominated Huberspace for the big award for its 2008 Small Business Awards. |
| March 24, 2008 | Huberspace owner speaks about usability on panel Jim Huber answers questions about usability and other Web design topics at Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce hosted panel. |
| October 1, 2007 | Huberspace nominated for Technology award Huberspace nominated for an award in the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce's 2007 Small Business Awards. |
| September 24, 2007 | Huberspace presents "Pizza and Preconceived Web Site Notions" Huberspace owner discusses common misconceptions about Web sites and the Web users to Loudoun Chamber group. |
| September 5, 2007 | Huberspace in the spotlight at network group relaunch Jim Huber kicks off Loudoun Chamber network group meeting with an interactive presentation called "What's in YOUR Web Site." |
| September 1, 2007 | Ready, set, spoof Jim Huber spoke to Campaigns & Elections about parody political campaign sites. |
| July 1, 2007 | Huberspace celebrates fifth anniversary After five years, Huberspace is going strong, still adding services and team members dedicated to goals vs. glitz. |
| July 1, 2006 | Huberspace celebrates four years in business Four years of web design for political, law firm, and commercial sites, as well as freelance cartooning. |
| January 22, 2006 | Backdoor 2.0 Content Management System unveiled by Huberspace The latest version includes new features, such as blog and testimonial admin tools, and other upgraded system tools. |
| November 15, 2005 | Huberspace wins Home Based Business of the Year Award Huberspace takes home the prize for home based business for the the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce's Small Business Awards. |
Other News | |
| March 1, 2011 | Bing Overtakes Yahoo! Globally for First Time But they still trail far behind Google. |
| February 12, 2011 | Google Penalizes JCPenney for Shady SEO Practices This is why we tell our clients to resist the lure of high ranking from deceptive search engine optimization practices. |
| June 24, 2010 | The evolving blogosphere: An empire gives way The blog bandwagon is slowing down. Nothing that comes as a surprise to us. |
| June 14, 2010 | Starbucks to offer free Wi-Fi at all company-operated stores Two days before our presentation advocating businesses offer free Wi-fi, Starbucks beats us to the punch. |
| January 5, 2010 | What's Next in Web Design? "Better interaction design, less graphic design. Better user experience, less debates about taste. Faster technology, more reliable design standards." Where have you heard that before? |
| November 15, 2009 | Google Does Not Use Keywords Meta Tag You can stop asking about "plugging keywords into Google." It doesn't help, and probably hasn't for a long time. |
| October 2, 2009 | Text still rules How to get readers' attention? Hint: it's not with with the graphics. |
| August 26, 2009 | Facebook Exodus Is the novelty of the social media site beginning to wear off? |
| January 15, 2009 | Teens on social networks still outrank adults 2-1 Adults use social networking primarily for personal rather than professional reasons. More evidence against social networking hype. |
| January 12, 2009 | Why Text Remains King of the Web Video is cool, but text still rules. |
| December 9, 2008 | People don't trust company blogs Yet another reason we're not on the blog bandwagon. |
| September 23, 2008 | How To Build A Killer Small Business Website Step 1: call Huberspace. :-) |
| September 16, 2008 | Web 2.0 payoff still hazy Data on emerging technologies show Web 2.0 isn't giving companies a big return. |
| May 24, 2008 | Web users 'getting more ruthless' No-nonsense Web sites are validated once again. |
| May 4, 2008 | Has Facebook Jumped the Shark as a Political Tool? Social networking in politics isn't as great as we've been hearing. |
| August 28, 2007 | You Don't Know Jack About Web Site Usability A good example about developers that give lip service to Web usability testing but don't know what it is. |
| August 23, 2007 | Users wrongly trust higher Google results Why SEO is important, but also why good content is. |
| July 30, 2007 | SEO Epiphanies Major revelation: SEO doesn't mean anything when no one can use your site. |
| July 24, 2007 | The 'Three Moments of Truth' Web Site Checklist Web Usability = good marketing. |
| July 3, 2007 | Yahoo Unveils Personalized Ads Yahoo's advertising service uses behavioral, demographic and geographic information to display ads that cater to users' interests. |
| April 30, 2007 | Marketers zooming in on your daily routines Big companies perform extensive usability testing to improve their products. |
| February 12, 2007 | The human factor in gadget, Web design Popular sites, such as YouTube, demonstrate that good user design makes for a good Web site. |
| February 11, 2007 | Forget Gimmicks: Buyers Want Numbers Real estate agent and brokers realize that better information on Web sites sells, not flashy toys. |
| October 14, 2006 | Politicians Try Out MySpace Candidates use social-networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook to attract young voters. |
| June 5, 2006 | Study: Web is the No. 1 media Web media is the dominant at-work media and No. 2 in the home, according to a new report from the Online Publishers Association. |

