Posted Mar 30th, 2009

Creating a Facebook Page and Facebook Group

I wanted to share with you some information that will help you in promoting your group, organization, or business in Facebook. If you don’t already have a personal Facebook profile, you will need to go to facebook.com and create one. Recently, I’ve been talking with my clients about the difference between Pages and Groups, and today I found some great articles (listed below). The main differences being that...

Posted Mar 26th, 2009

Oasis Shower Doors New England – Framless Glass Shower Doors

Oasis Shower Doors of New England (formerly Mr. Shower Door New England) had a flat file html site with no interactive features. The small point text was displayed on a medium-blue background making it difficult to read, and the gallery images and other content were cumbersome to update. Chris Dearborn of New Frontiers Design created a new clean, crisp layout. I implemented and coded the website in WordPress....

Posted Mar 26th, 2009

Nederland Real Estate

This website was created to showcase a luxury, eco-friendly home for sale in Nederland, Colorado. Each section features a different header image that shows off the beauty of the home and property. The gallery presents interior and exterior photos of the home in an organized and attractive format. Click to View Site

Posted Mar 23rd, 2009

Website Business Tips

I love the blog at WebDistortion.com. I subscribe to it via my Google homepage and look forward to reading every post. Here are some recent posts from Paul, the author, a web designer in Ireland: The newbie guide to running a design business. Part 1. This post contains many helpful tips on how to come up with appropriate estimates for websites, write contracts and proposals, keep track of your time, and manage...

Posted Mar 23rd, 2009

Website Testing Tips

Some great recent posts about checking and testing your website before going live: A website checklist. 20 things to check before going live. “As developers we all know the highs of launching a new site, but how many of us have went through a step by step list checking off all the to-do items.” — from http://blog.webdistortion.com/ 10 Helpful Resources for Cross Browser Testing “Every...

Posted Mar 1st, 2009

Decreasing Energy Use in the United States

I’m reading the Sunday New York Times article about Obama backing new global climate treaty. I found it interesting that the global recession is itself expected to result in a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, as manufacturing and other polluting industries shrink. I’ve been confounded as of late as to how it is that our world economies depend on the consumption of non-essential goods the manufacture...