Whoah! Ease Up On The Stock Photography
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008I love iStock . . . you love istock . . . we all love iStock! But give it a break. See this picture (see right). If I have to see this picture on someones contact page one more time (or one of it’s fifty million incarnations), it’s going to get UGLY! I mean come […]
Posted in Rants, Quick Tip | 2 Comments »>Marketing Resources for Your Small Business
Monday, October 6th, 2008Hey, any small business owner lives with the daily reality that business survival means they have to wear many different hats. Effectively marketing your business is one of those realities! Marketing may or may not be your particular area of expertise but never the less is critical to your small business. Especially, in current economic […]
Posted in Business Practices, How-to, Quick Tip, Favorite Links | No Comments »>Your Online Business Plan
Friday, September 26th, 2008Like anything you do with your business you need (or should) make a plan. Unless you are in the habit of wasting time and money, having an effective strategy for your on line presence is important. Take the time to plan how your web presence will enhance and support your business objectives and keep […]
Posted in Business Practices, Quick Tip | No Comments »>Jacket Flap: Social Networking for the Children’s Publishing Industry
Friday, September 19th, 2008Social networks are a staple of the Web 2.0 scene and most people are familiar with MySpace, Facebook, and LinkedIn as ways to connect and network with other people. Sometimes the breadth and scope of a network like LinkedIn can seem a little daunting. I struggle sometimes to see the benefits of participating in such […]
Posted in Quick Tip, Technology, Web 2.0 | No Comments »>Sarah Palin’s Yahoo Email Hacked
Thursday, September 18th, 2008Last week, I wrote about password security and making sure you use secure passwords. This week VP candidate Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account was hacked by simply answering a few password recovery security questions. The Huffington Post breaks it down here. Of course, Ms. Palin like most of us chose to use real language answers, […]
Posted in Quick Tip, Technology | No Comments »>Password Security
Friday, September 12th, 2008Often, client calls provide a lot of fodder for posts on our blog. recently, because of hosting security reasons we changed our clients passwords. Tail-spin! Of course, we created random passwords with lots of the things that make for secure passwords, you know, $ T h t B 5 6 ^ a G, random combinations […]
Posted in Quick Tip | 1 Comment »>Expression Engine- Posting User Comments Inside a Post on Your index.php Page
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Hey, I am proud to say we have some pretty smart and talented people around here.
We have a client, that requested to have the last comment posted to a particular post, display on the index.php page inside that post. (Confused? I am.)
Hmmm… after exploring the webs, the internets, and the Expression Engine knowledge base […]
“What’s This?”: RSS
Friday, October 12th, 2007You may have noticed these days a lot of web sites are sporting this “sexy little orange icon” usually found in the address bar at the top of your browser. Good looks aside, this icon has lead to revolution of how content is viewed and distributed on the web. This icon is for the Real […]
Posted in How-to, Quick Tip, Technology | No Comments »>InDesign Quick Tip: Step and Repeat
Friday, April 13th, 2007Step and Repeat (apple + option + u)
I find this function very handy when I want to duplicate an image (or type) on the page. When I use this feature, I know each image will be on the same horizontal line. See example below.
Here I did a step and repeat of the image with a […]