Hi. Welcome to my blog. I’m a systems engineer who’s been working with computers for 40 years; specializing in distributed, end-user applications; helping people and computers understand each other and work better together.
What I Do
I provide expertise in many areas of Information Technology to help individuals and small organizations get their ideas and businesses online. I design, build and maintain Web sites, applications and services. I connect clients into a network of people and resources. I write user manuals, proposals, RFPs and the occasional book.
So, how's your Web site looking these days? Does it help you communicate with your customers or does it just sit there like an old brochure in a waiting room?
Background
I graduated from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, worked a couple of years at IBM in Chicago before moving to New York City and joining the faculty of Columbia University. I worked several years for the computer services division of the Boeing company before starting my own firm, Larry Aronson Associates, doing major software projects for: CBS News, Mobil Oil, M&M Mars and Merrill Lynch.
I've been online like forever. I began building Web sites in 1993, wrote the first book on Web publishing, The HTML Manual of Style (ZD Press, 1994,) and taught the first online education courses for Compuserve. I was co-chair of the New York Macintosh Users' Group's (NYMUG) Internet SIG in the '80s and a founder of the World Wide Web Artists' Consortium (WWWAC) in the '90s. I was on the board of the New York Software Industries Association (NYSIA) for many years and I'm a founding member of the Social Media Club's New York City chapter.
Larry Aronson
For my client Kate Nasser’s website, I made a number of changes to add more features & content, reduce clutter and improve search engine optimization (SEO). This article shows how to use advanced tooltips to make suplimental information invisible until needed.
Air Safety And Law is intended to serve as a forum for the legal community to discuss air travel safety and liability issues. The blog is a project of Kreindler & Kreindler, the law firm that handles most of the major aviation accidents.
My client wanted to have their authors' photos appear with their published articles. In this article, I describe how I wrote a Wordpress filter – my first – to prepend an image to the content on the home and single post pages.
Federal Criminal Practice Blog — I just completed another Wordpress blog for a client of my good friend and associate, David Schiffer, of DLS Design. David built a beautiful, static site for Gregory Poe, a lawyer in federal criminal law practice.
Thinking of starting a Website to publish your thoughts or promote your business? While you can create “a site in just minutes – No HTML necessary!”, knowing the basics of the Web’s markup language and how it provides information to search robots about your site, influencing your site’s ranking, will give you an edge in building your online business.
Humintell.com, a website project I worked on this past Spring for the Landsman Communications Group recently launched. Humintell is about Microexpression Analysis—the understanding of the underlying emotions of people by looking for universal facial expressions that flick on and off in less than a second. I built the Humintell website using Wordpress, modifying the Minimal theme to match the graphical design, typography and layout from graphic designer, Dean Meyers.
Reflections on the NY TImes article: A.P. Cracks Down on Unpaid Use of Articles on Web and Informed Sources, by Willard S. Bain, a revolutionary, hallucinogenic novel about the AP written in the late 1960s.
Google announced their plan to introduce the Google Chrome OS into the market for PC operating systems. Essentially, it’s a Web OS that intelligently integrates on-line and local resources to provide a slick interface for managing all the content consumption, creation and sharing we routinely do. Larry Aronson examines some of the possible consequences.
The EasyOffice is a Cloud Computing service started by Philip Meese. Building this Website was fun! It features nice drop-menus, javascript sliding content effects and a couple of cool plugins for SEO and site management.
WWW — Should we continue to use the www. prefix in our Web addresses?
Ann Phelan has a dream job. She facilitates and books vacations to two of the best islands in the Caribbean, Bonaire and Antigua. I recently helped Ann create two sites: BonaireBliss.com and AntiguaBliss.com, to share her love of these two wonderful destinations.
Amazon.com announced today a new version of its Kindle reader. I’ve occasionally seen people using a Kindle on the NYC subway. It’s a beautiful device and I want one.
DigitalHHR – I just completed this Wordpress blog for the Intellectual Property department of a major law firm. It features an integrated BBs, an event manager, feature-rich videos, a Flash-powered header, customized navigation menu and special lawyer profile pages.
