Yearly Archives: 2012

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Lightning Master

Lightning Master creates industrial lightning protection equipment and devices.  Their line of products covers a variety of industries and applications. This project was and upgrade to an existing website, with the goals of providing better content management, strong SEO, a …
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Coping with a Time Crunch

Having too much on your plate is a good problem.  Yes good, but I place the emphasis on problem for a reason. A sudden influx of clients and/or work needs to be addressed and dealt with head-on, or you will find yourself …
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Make Visual Studio Front End Developer Friendly in 3 Easy Steps!

Visual Studio, while pretty feature laden, isn’t the type of editor that a modern day front end guru salivates for.  When I first started developing in a .Net environment I found it pretty cumbersome and even a little intimidating.  These days, it rivals …
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Criticism in Creative Enviroments

Any team leader worth his salt has some trepidation when it comes to leveling criticism.  Doubly so in creative environments, where good designers and developers invest something of themselves in their designs and user experiences. I personally still find it …
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A Good Foundation

After years of trying various techniques and workflows I’ve settled on three key areas that I focus on at the very beginning of nearly every web development process. Site Map I prefer a classic outline, but many people like more …
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Managing Expectations in Web Development

Content Management Systems are better and friendlier than they have ever been.  As a result, its very easy to oversell capabilities and reliability.  Microsoft office style interfaces make it tempting to advertise any CMS with a WYSIWIG as a no training, …
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Sample Job Interview Questions for Web Developers

I’ve participated in quite a few interviews and I do enjoy the process of meeting people and evaluating them for fit.  When assessing a potential designer, developer or other position, I try to orient candidates into a collaborative rather than …
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Precision Joint Solution

This DotNetNuke site was a blast to create and develop.  Great imagery and motivated clients made this simple site a success in just a few short weeks of development. DNN Modules Used: SmithCart Easy DNN Solutions News


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Handing off the Right Way

Any project hand-offs or delegated tasks have the potential, if handled incorrectly, to be costly in terms of time,  money and resources.  I find that taking the time to hand off with professionalism, consistency and just a bit of attention to detail …
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A Site Launch Checklist

My site launch checklist is continuously evolving as I account for new technology, old technology, new techniques, ideas, and balance quality with time.  It’s a good idea to offer clients options in the form of various packages based on their needs, as accounting for …
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Why Bad Clients Will Monopolize Your Time

Intuitively you might think that it is good clients, not bad, that would tend to draw excessive attention.  After all, who spends too much time doing chores, exercising or chatting up their in-laws?  If your like most of us, you tear yourself …
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Southwest Family Care Alliance

This DotNetNuke site featured assistance from Will on design and template development.  A large array of content, custom menus and some custom modules for displaying vacancies and facility listings made it a challenging but rewarding project to manage. DotNetNuke Modules Packflash MegaMenu Custom Vacancies …
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