Earlier this year, I announced that I was redoing my company’s website because it was time. Well, much time has passed, and last week I finally ‘flipped the switch’. Yay!!!
Here’s a short chronology of the process, and my thoughts:
Select the ‘designer’ and technology:I knew from the beginning that I wanted to have fellow blogger Mike [...]

Another rant about website technical issues:
Screen resolution IS NOT the same as browser size!
Years ago we figured out the difference between ‘hits’ and ‘page views’, why can’t we figure this one out?
Google Analytics can’t. Their description of their ’screen resolution’ report says:
“Which screen resolutions do your visitors use? Optimizing your site for the appropriate technical [...]

I spent a significant amount of time last winter discussing the issues of published pricing on your website (1, 2, 3, 4 and more). Now Anne Holland of MarketingSherpa chimes in on the subject: Should You Reveal Pricing Online? Overcoming Fear & Loathing.
She sums up in a few paragraphs the challenge with pricing on your [...]

We have a modest Christmas card list. Mainly sales reps and agents and key customers. For a couple different reasons, I couldn’t just print the labels from our CRM program. It should be easy enough to do mail-merge labels in Word, right? Hardly. And there is no way I would expect my secretary to be [...]

People are getting sloppy about their quotations online. No I don’t mean bad reporting, I mean bad typography. Smart quotes gone awry.
I’ve seen on websites, blogs, and newsletters, an increasing amount of weird characters. Characters where quotation marks or other punctuation should be.
The culprit seems to be cutting-and-pasting from Word or other Office programs. Word [...]

UPDATE (1/7/08): I just got a response from the first service I sent files for ‘free sample clipping paths’. Um, that’s over a month for what was promised as overnight service. Why did they even bother?
I like to do things myself. Where it is easy and I have the tools. But I’ve found that outlining [...]

Swell, I give Larry a plug for his podcast, and he returns the favor with a ‘tag’ for a blog-meme thingy. Seems, I am up to share eight random things about myself. I’m sticking with recent things.
The Paperwork
When you are tagged by me, you must link back to this website. Then when writing [...]