My good amigo and business partner, Josh Mallard, recently launched a new service that helps photographers with complete branding packages that include a mobile-friendly website, offline print material templates, and more. I think this is a really innovative idea and I’m betting it will be a success. If you know any photographers in the market [...]
Behold, my killer guide for how to set up email for a website using Google Apps for Domains (Essentially giving your domain Gmail accounts) I’ll be adding to this as I have time. If you have any questions, please drop them in the comments. Sign-Up Sign up for the free Google Apps Standard account (limit [...]
I did a quick video showing how you can use Excel to create 301 redirect (or a similar spreadsheet program like Google Spreadsheets) and create the 301 redirected using a formula to join cells together. Formula format: =A1&B1&C1 Any tips on how to make this process better?
So the site probably looks really bizarre right now. I’m FireReadyAiming this redesign. The previous design was over 4 years old and quite dated. This new version will be more fun and hopefully better in all ways. If you have any brilliant ideas design or functionality, share them please! -Blake
A guy I met while at college pinged me on Facebook and asked: I was looking at starting a small graphic design/ website design company and was wondering if you had any pointers or tips on the best way to start, and how to develop a client base. I was thinking about starting by bidding [...]
A recent WordPress project required having a recent posts widget that each link was styled differently with CSS based on what category the post came from. A bit of a jargon loaded sentence I admit. Basically, if a “recent post” link in this widget was from the “Tools” category (for instance) then it could be [...]
I’m on a workation right now (this was last week, just got around to publishing now). Yep, I am sitting poolside in sunny California. (no jealousy) This has been a glorious week of exploring the San Jose/Los Altos/San Franciso area. The work part of this vacation comes every morning when I get up before 6 [...]
This is a wicked quick way to add the necessary MX records to your site so that you can use Google Apps for Domains. This is probably only useful and worth the effort if you are like me and create dozens of these setups for clients. Here is where you can download Texter. Here are [...]
Every year the Internet collectively goes berserk for one day. I figured this year I would try and catalog some of it as it happens. What follows is my log of the festivities. Happy April Fools Day! (I will update this post as the day goes on) 6:00am – YouTube from 1911 6:10am – My [...]
I recently got the idea to have all my external links to Wikipedia have a little “W” icon next to them in order to indicate that the links went to Wikipedia. The solution I came up with is to use some CSS and Regular Expressions to automatically add the image to any URLs that have http://en.wikipedia.org/ [...]
