September, 2008

Sep 24th, 2008

Who Do You Know That’s Into Local Theatre?

photo credit: Jaako
I’m sure I’ll be mentioning several times in the coming months the work I am doing pursuing a new target market: local theatres and performing arts groups.  I’ve started working with a marketing firm to develop some promotional material.  The materials have a few blank spots where we will eventually be inserting [...]

Sep 17th, 2008

Communicate Hosting Requirements at the Outset

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With most of my clients, I develop their site on my web server.  We’ll go back and forth through all the iterations of changes there.  When it’s complete, then I move it over to their production server.  95% of the time, this works fine.  I recently came across a situation, though, where [...]

Sep 10th, 2008

Your Passion Projects Are Worth Pursuing

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I love movies.  I love going to the movies and spending far, far too much money on popcorn.  I met my wife while we were both working at a movie theater.  So I didn’t really need a solid business plan to create Single Sentence Movie Review.  I knew I wanted to create [...]

Sep 3rd, 2008

Lightbox and Other Modal Overlay Effects

Hot on the heels of (and sometimes built upon) incredibly useful Javascript libraries like Scriptaculous, there’s been a wave of modal overlay effects.  (Some of the most popular are listed here.)  They all seem to have their own unique quirks, but the overlying theme is the same.  A small layer is given attention by bringing [...]

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