Archive for November, 2006

Website Killers Part 1: The Animated GIF

Friday, November 24th, 2006

There are a few of things that will pretty much kill any good website. These items were once all the rage and still have valid uses today. However when they are mentioned to a good designer he or she will typically cringe with fear and begin searching for the nearest ...

Find Your Niche at the Grocery Store

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

On the path to the perfect niche you'll need to look inward. More specifically, “Your niche should arise naturally from your interests and experience.” says Entrepreneur.com, which means that you'll need to figure out what you like. The problem comes when one cannot clearly state his own interests. One suggestion is ...

A Focused Business is a Successful Business

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

According to Al and Laura Ries, authors of The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding, “The power of a brand is inversely proportional to its scope.” In other words, the more focused your company or product is, the more successful it will be. If you’re serious about getting focused you need ...

Our Media: The New American Monarch

Friday, November 10th, 2006

After the election this week I just felt bad. I felt let down and disappointed. Other elections haven’t made me feel like this. I didn’t realize why until yesterday when I was talking to Mary about it. It’s because I feel as if my concerns as an American have been ...

Music, the Craft

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

I was recently reading an article in the Association of Vineyard Churches’ church-planting publication, Cutting Edge, by John Mortensen entitled “How then shall we write? A guide to composing better music for worship”. I was struck by such an obvious point that is almost always overlooked: Music is a craft. All ...

There Is Two Of Them!

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

Yep you read that right. Maddie is going to be a big sister! We’ve known for a while now but we weren’t able to confirm it until this week when we went to the doctor. We had previously taken a pregnancy test and were fairly sure of it but still ...

Housekeeping

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

Server Change Our web hosting provider moved our websites to a different server a couple of days ago and I didn’t find the notification email from them until after they made the move. We lost a bunch of email and this website is a bit buggy still. Sorry for the downtime. Posting ...