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Splash Pages = Evil

If you’re a client of mine, we’ve probably had this discussion at some point.  We’ve all seen the sites that give us some cool graphic and tell us to “Click To Get Started” or something similar – like having to open a door before visiting a site.
My personal objection to this is the senseless barrier [...]

Straight-Line Winds

Do you know what Straight-line Winds are?  I didn’t – at least not before Tuesday night…

After the sun had gone down on Tuesday night, while we sat in our Living Room  glad to be warm and inside instead of cold and wet outside, we hear a wonderful sound akin to something like our city garbage [...]

Using Google Calendar Effectively

I’ve been using Google Calendar to various degrees since its inception. I feel like I’ve finally gotten to a place where it works truly for me, but it took some doing. I’m going to share best practices that I’ve found – and also how I’m using it to enhance my web development with [...]

Web2.0 Apps That I’m Using

Just for fun, listing some of the sites I’m using.  Some of my favorite apps, and the reason I use so little software on my computer anymore.

Sandy – Personal Assistant
Google Reader
Gmail
Google Docs
Zoho
Highrise – Customer Relationship Management

Foamee – Online “I owe you one” Manager
SplashUp
del.icio.us
Monster
Remember The Milk

Ever since I found out about Blueprint CSS framework I have been dying to find out how to effectively use it for Joomla templates, but as yet I have been unable to work on it myself. I know there are a couple of people on the Blueprint side of things that are doing some [...]

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