We've talked a lot about responsive websites. Websites that change their shape to fit the display on which they are being viewed. They show as a "normal" site on laptops and PC's, and rearrange themselves to better fit on phones and tablets.

It seems we hear stories every week about more data theft. As you can imagine we get asked just about every day, "What can I do about it?" I can tell you what we do about it and what bad habits you can break painlessly.

There are plenty of articles covering the hows of search engine optimization. Plenty of gurus like the legendary Bruce Clay talking about it. I can write about how you have to build good SEO into a site from the beginning, not as an after thought or a tack on service. What I really want to cover is why you want to do it.

You know what that tool is? It is an icon of every plumber stereotype there is. You take a picture of a guy with one of those in his hands and you immediately think "plumber". I'm sure they hand them out at the end of plumber school along with the catalog of clothing that will show butt cracks by the inch.

We previously covered collecting sales taxes, and why that is tricky and may get trickier. This time, let us talk a little about paying them.

I'm going to start by saying something so shocking that you will not believe it.

In my career, in all the numerous times I have had to call various tax code enforcers, officers, bureaucrats or tax help line people; I have had a very pleasant experience.

Shocking I know. But it's the truth. Even when I was in the wrong, they were very nice. I'm going to share with you something my very excellent economics teacher once told me, "They don't really want your property, story or anything else. They just want the money. You can always work out a deal." I never hesitate to call the experts.

I can write about death or taxes. I'll pick the one that worries people a lot more - taxes, specifically sales taxes online and how they effect ecommerce.

In a perfect ecommerce universe, you would charge sales tax to everyone and pay it to the resident state in which your business was located. Which is how it should work. Right now what is heading to the online world is you having to pay sales tax in whatever state the buyer was in. Or is that where the buyer shipped the order to? Do they even know yet? What about military AFO orders?

This article is going to look at how the #1 industry in Las Vegas has an almost Jekyll and Hyde relationship with the visitors to their city versus the visitors to their web sites.

First let's look at how a first time visitor deals with planning the trip. On my first trip we were staying at Caesar's Palace, wanted to see Penn and Teller, visit Fremont Street, and watch the fountains at the Bellagio and maybe the Sirens at Treasure Island.