Best Practices

Jan 14th, 2009

Changes in 2009

This is the first post I’ve made in over two months. A crazy amount has happened in that time. I’ve become a new dad. This is picture of my new daughter, Libby Joss Mabbitt. She’s the one in the picture with lots of hair.
This is a good time to revisit a [...]

Nov 4th, 2008

Where the Candidates Stand on Issues

Need to do a little last minute cramming to determine who you want to vote for? Head over to Obama vs. McCain for side-by-side comparisons on individual issues.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Aug 20th, 2008

…And No One’s Around To Read It, Was It Ever Really Posted?

photo credit: John-Morgan
For a while now, I’ve been making posts on this blog at 10am (-500) on Wednesdays. Last week I shook things up by waiting to post until Friday. Then I asked if anybody noticed. There were only a few responses (three) to the poll I created. I know [...]

Aug 15th, 2008

If a Blog Post Falls In the Woods…

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It’s actually Monday night as I’m writing this post. Normally, I’ll have a new post published each Wednesday at 10am local time. Even though I’m obviously writing this post in plenty of time to meet that self-imposed deadline, I’m running a little experiment. I want to see what kind [...]

Jul 30th, 2008

The Survey for People Who Make Websites

A List Apart is ramping up their second annual survey of web professionals. You may be wondering what is the point of this survey. A bunch of people answer questions. Then we learn that 0.3% of the world’s web developers live in Argentina. Okay. And?

Jul 9th, 2008

Road Trip

No big post this week because I’ve had a sudden trip added to my calendar. Nothing bad; it just came up unexpectedly is all. If you need something to tide you over, might I suggest this discussion on whether a business should dump all of their information on their website or just include [...]

Jul 2nd, 2008

Why Are These Blog Posts So High in Google?

I was checking through the site logs this morning, and I noticed that I was getting a lot of traffic on two phrases in particular. At least at the time of this writing, I have a post from this blog at the number two spot in Google’s search results for both talking to clients [...]

Jun 24th, 2008

Blog Revamp

Long overdue, I finally did a redesign of this Best Practices blog. I was motivated to do this because I decided to upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress. (I had been using 2.0.3, and the admin interface has gotten a lot better since then.) Since I was going to all the [...]

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