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Reasons every blogger should participate in forums
29 Comments Published February 1st, 2008 in Tips & Tools.As I look back over the last year and the growth of my design business and this site, I can point to one thing that made the most impact: participation in forums. I am not a big time forum participant. In fact, I’ve only regularly participated in two forums, but the contacts made there, […]
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Building trust with clients - being honest about mistakes
58 Comments Published January 7th, 2008 in Tips & Tools.I spent a long time in a fairly high-pressure corporate environment, dealing with some high-profile clients doing database, analysis and production work that was complex and fraught with opportunities for mistakes.
I made a lot of mistakes- especially in the first year or two as I was gaining experience. Are you familiar with the “ohnosecond”? […]
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The Best Contact Form Plugin for WordPress
26 Comments Published November 21st, 2007 in Tips & Tools.Recently while working on a client site, I needed a contact form plugin that went beyond the very good, commonly used Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form. We needed something with the flexibility to add custom fields, etc. I found a most excellent solution in cformsII. This plugin is the ultimate form generator, […]
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I have always thought I was a straight down the middle kind of person - I can be extremely logical, literal and analytical, but creative and intuitive as well. I guess I’m more right brained than I thought, because for a long time I could only see this dancer spinning to the right (clockwise). […]
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Since I first heard of sketchcasting several months ago, I’ve been interested in doing one because it is such an effective way to communicate information quickly. So, when Sketchcast.com came on the scene just recently, I was ready to give it a try, and here is my first effort. I’m sorry about the […]
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The Ultimate Guide to Free Web Site Analytics
53 Comments Published June 28th, 2007 in Tips & Tools.So, you’ve got a web site and you need a good stats program. If your hosting plan doesn’t provide something like AWStats or Webalizer, or you just want to see some stats they don’t provide, you’ll likely look to one of the free services out there to analyze your traffic, but which one to choose? […]
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