Friday Just For Fun Site – Bloxorz
Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) Bloxorz is a really cool Flash game where you roll a block over a maze and drop it into a hole. Sounds simple, right? Is is pretty simple, but keeps getting harder and is incredibly addictive. You […]
Another Made Up Holiday – Open That Bottle Night
I just answered a question the other day on LinkedIn that asked “What Is Your #1 Favorite Shoestring Marketing Strategy?” I answered that one of my favorite strategies is to invent a new holiday or align with one that is not very popular. I have been celebrating Talk Like A Pirate Day for a couple […]
Great Free Tool, 224 Pure CSS Layouts
Here’s a wonderful page with a collection of 224 full Grade-A browser supported CSS layouts. That means these layouts will look the same in almost any browser. This is a wonderful tool for anyone who is making a website. They are free for you to use and I highly recommend them. These layouts are done […]
How Good Is Your Password?
I always advise my clients to pick a good password for hosting their website. I tell them that their password is the “Key To Their Store”. Because of that they need to pick a fairly secure password, I tell them that they should not use a popular word, they should mix lower case and capital […]
Friday Just For Fun Site – StumbleVideo
Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) I bought myself a new phone for Christmas. It’s a G1 with Google’s new operating system called Android. You probably already know that I’m an Open Source kind of guy. I think that even though the iPhone […]
Do As I Say, Not As I Do and Test Everything
I was working on a site for a new customer and they asked for a contact form on their site. Not a big deal, it’s something that I have done dozens of times before. This time I did something that made me quite embarrassed. Let me start by saying that when I design a site […]
Another Smart Way To Cut Costs
The economy today is making all of the news. There is a good article in the Wall Street Journal that talks about how businesses are saving money by spending on updating both their hardware and software. While it never bad to look at your programs with an eye toward improving their efficiency, it continues to […]
Scrolling Image Trick
My main tag line for my web design business and my site is “Simple can be Good”. I have always believed that more often than not the simplest solution to any problem is the best one. That the more that you complicate things the more there is to go wrong. The simple solution is also […]
Think Before You Email
I was speaking with a customer the other day about ways that he could use email marketing to promote his business. He was belt tightening like most businesses today and he finally realized the possible value and low cost of this kind of promotion. When I first built his site he asked for and I […]
Friday Just For Fun Site – Great Super Bowl Photos
Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) Being a native Six-Burgher I especially loved this year’s NFL season. Especially the last game. Well all you Steeler fans here’s one last look back at a wonderful time. Great Super Bowl XLIII Memories
