Here is the beginning of what I hope to be a great series of posts. This series will chronicle—in as much detail as I can provide without driving myself or you crazy—the process of reinventing my brand and transforming this website in form and function.
Something I constantly strive for is perfection. I’ll admit it I am a perfectionist. I have written about this before. I have recently found myself editing, and re-editing just about everything in pursuit of some sort of non-existent pixelated nirvana.
While this quality can be seen as admirable it can also be seen as a pain [...]
Some people see their lives in chapters, or phases. One goes “through” these chapters and phases and either grows, expands, contracts, or evolve from whatever the experience may deliver.
What about the space between these chapters? The period of time between one chapter and another. Sometimes the shift is immediate, like having a child and becoming [...]
Thank goodness I know I will vote, but this video I received today reminded me of the power of one persons vote. I know the power of a single vote. I remember my father losing a local election by 12 votes. Change 7 peoples minds and he would have won the election.
The video is hilarious [...]
I have always been a proponent of standards-based web design. Semantic markup is tasty for me and for the search engines. It makes everyone happy. However, clients do like Flash based websites for the ability to control things explicitly. The rub has always been that a great website is Flash is basically invisible to the [...]
Today is the first day of June and the official end to the month of May. May is a challenging month for me. My birthday is in May and I get another year older (and hopefully wiser). The school year begins its path to winding up for the year—meaning the kids, and my wife, begin [...]
Interesting post today on Dawud Miracle’s blog titled “Why you need to invest in your business.”
For those people running a truly small business (less than $150,000 in gross receipts annually) spending money on non-tangible items can be a tricky game. Your marketing and promotion budget looks like the jar above.
What I mean is spending money [...]
Something I am not good at is taking a break from work. Any type of break–5 minutes or 5 days. On a daily basis I find myself sitting at the machine for 3 hours at a stretch without getting out of the chair. Obviously this is not good. I did get a pedometer over the [...]
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