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Style Guides (for websites)
Its like the never ending story – “Web development team waits for designers to finish page – project delayed”; OK, you caught me – they never delay the project! ;) What I think every company, every brand and especially every website needs is a style guide. I caught this great post at Smashing Magazine called [...]
GazetteOnline is famous!
I was reading mashable this morning and saw a great little article on 300,000 biggest websites on the Internet represented in favicons. I proceeded over to people who made the map nmap.org to look for two of Sourcemedia Group’s sites, Gazette Online and KCRG. For some reason KCRG errored out: Online lookup: Not found. Survey [...]
Moving on…
Its kind of fun and kind of scary when you start down a new path in life. This branch takes me out of the media world (Gazette Communications – soon to be or maybe now called SourceMedia Group) and into the world of ecommerce. Old Job: Media I’ve been working for Gazette for almost 7 [...]
WordPress: Query Custom Fields
I work for a media company and we are always bending WordPress this way and that – one of the latest challenges is to build a new version of our Obituaries page. You laugh – but, it is the second most popular page on our site. When I came across this plugin “Query Custom Fields” [...]
New benefits announced!
This is so funny – especially with a recent change to the social media policies at my place of employment…it would not surprise me to see this in the employee handbook.
5 tips for better craigslist response
My dad passed away about a year ago and he was a collector. You’ve seem the show “Pickers”? How about “Hoarders”? We’re somewhere in between – unfortunately, closer to the latter. Though this process I’ve started to become really familiar with craigslist and seen things I’ve done work and not work and thought I would [...]
Sniezekfest 2010 has completed
Colleen (my wife) has a big family – she has 7 brothers (2) and sisters (5) and we have a group vacation every-other year – on the evens. This year’s vacation was in Storm Lake, Iowa at a place called King’s Point Resort. Not a bad place – very nice waterpark, hotel was nice looking [...]
What can CT5K and Community teach us about the web?
Image by Brian Cribb via Flickr – I looked a lot like this when I was running, really! The CT5K Recently a young family friend went to the hospital because of heart issues. Not totally uncommon among American society today – but alarming, none the less. Shortly after I caught a Facebook update which said [...]
3.0 – Twenty Ten rolling…
It’s arrived – WordPress 3.0!
Great web 3.0 video
My CEO at Source Media Croup had a great tweet a couple of days ago on video: @cshirky – “not to produce one new bit of news, but to aggregate news for individuals in ways that matter to them.” http://kateray.net/film/ Chuck Peters from Twitter Web 3.0 from Kate Ray on Vimeo.
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