Most of us who design custom websites start with Photoshop. I currently use base template files that assume a 1024×768 screen resolution as the lowest common denominator (according to W3Schools, as of January, 2009, only 4% of identifiable browsers were operating at a screen resolution below 1024×768). In the last 18 months or so, I’ve
I don’t know if I should be concerned about this, but Twitter is starting to make sense to me. I just spent an hour listening to Gary Vaynerchuk talking about Twitter (and a lot of other stuff in the keynote of Michael Stelzner’s Social Media Success Summit 2009). Gary talked about how you can use
DOH! We recently had a glitch on a logo/web design project for which I take complete responsibility. Knowing the client was anxious to get the website completed, I tried to shortcut the logo design phase. Oh sure, we gathered all the information, took careful notes about the company, its competitors, its products, and its markets
I’m not a huge fan of Twitter*, but I recognize its importance in marketing, if a significant portion of your market uses it. One of the best ways to use Twitter is to share interesting or useful webpages as you run across them. Finally, someone pointed me to an application that makes it incredibly quick
Time for another (nearly) regular Seth Godin feature video. This one is short and simple, and addresses a really important concept for bloggers (and really, all business owners) to understand: people are looking for solutions to their problems and answers to their questions. Provide them and you will have an audience (or customers). Provide them
Fairy tales were fun when we were little. The dastardly, selfish, and conniving were always punished. Meanwhile, handsome, brave, pure-hearted princes or tailors hooked up with beautiful, pure-hearted princesses (or beautiful, pure-hearted commoners) and lived happily ever after, often after some help from a fairy godmother or some other magical being. Unfortunately, too many small
If you’re like a lot of bloggers, you may have started blogging before you’d thought beyond a couple of posts. If it’s a choice between starting before you know what you’re doing or never getting started because you haven’t figured everything out, I’d encourage the former. But for a blog to benefit your business, it
