My good friend Agnes has a blog within her employer’s company website. She’s got the power to post new blog entries to her website whenever she wants, and of course the company encourages this. More content = more traffic = more exposure. All good things!

Last week, I got a package in the mail. It wasn’t a box, but rather it was a padded envelope with a few things inside of it. It had two pairs of folded sunglasses, a self-addressed, stamped envelope, and a card that read in brail “I am blind”. I don’t know what the hell this [...]

The term website is thrown around all the time. Everyone needs a website, everybody’s company needs a website, everyone’s family needs a website. But what the hell is a website in the first place? I’ll try to clear this up for you a bit. Anyone reading this article probably feels that she’s got a good [...]

Some people will only give you an implied thank you. They’ll make promises and such, but they’ll never actually say the words “Thank you.” I tend to actually use the words. Even if a thank you is implied, it never hurts to hear the words. Kinda like the whole ‘i love you’ thing. Remember Patrick [...]

If you’re using Mac Mail and have a Gmail account, you should probably follow a few simples steps to get the Gmail account integrated into Mac Mail. This article will go through how to setup Gmail in Mac Mail as an IMAP account.

My brother did a fantastic Photoshop tutorial showing how to create a simple political website mockup. I’d like to introduce you to Mr. Barack McCain, the newest candidate in the 2008 presidential race.

When designing websites, print brochures, or other visual stuff like that, it’s very convenient to use placeholder text. The de facto standard is the Lorem Ipsum text. The reason lorem ipsum is commonly used is becuase it’s very similar to english, in word density, word length, words per sentence, and so on.

Some wanna be homemaker rager just learned that there’s a difference between home fries and hash browns. Someone else didn’t know there was a difference. In general home fries are chunks or cubes of potato, while hash browns are usually shredded potato. They’re cooked pretty much the same way, depending on who makes them.

One of the most under-utilized cool technologies of today’s web, RSS feeds can save you time and improve communication. Most web users don’t know what RSS is, how to use it, or even why they should bother. I’ll try to clear this up here. RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication. This means that it’s a [...]

Well I’ve been seeing commercials for Budweiser’s new American Ale for a week or two now, and I’ve been wanting to try it. I’m not a big fan of regular Bud Heavy or Bud Light, although I will drink cans and cans of Bud Light if they’re around. Bud Light in cans fits into a [...]