Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category

dBlogIt has Moved!

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

It is with great satisfaction that I present to you dBlogIt.com, the new home of dBlogIt! Yay! In addition to a place of it’s own I’ve moved the whole thing over to Movable Type (a professional publishing platform) in order to speed up page load time for you, my faithful ...

How Can I Make dBlogIt More Useful for You?

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

I’ve made a lot of changes to dBlogIt over the past year and I’d love to hear how you feel it’s going. I set up this little survey in an effort to keep improving the blog and to make it more effective in helping to improve your life. Just click ...

Here’s How I Keep My Computer Files Tidy

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Well it may not be spring any more (at least here in Arizona), but it still feels like Spring Cleaning time to me. Mary and I have been on a cleaning spree at home, throwing stuff out, Freecycling, and pairing down most everything we have to the bare essentials. I ...

My Favorite Facebook Apps Part 2: MyType

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

In part 1 of this 2 part series of posts, I talked about a cool Facebook app called The Political Compass. In this post I wanted to give props to the excellent app called MyType. MyType is a Meyers-Briggs/Jung personality type questionnaire, but unlike other free personality type tests on ...

My Favorite Facebook Apps Part 1: The Political Compass

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

I’m a big fan of Facebook. It’s good for me because I tend to be a bit introverted and it gives me a way to connect with friends that I would otherwise not connect with much. One of the things that I absolutely love about it though are the Applications. ...

SOS. Help With Recursive Data Grouping

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Agggg. Can someone please point me in the right direction!! I have a flat table with groups of groups represented by the A, B, C. The groups aren’t the same, I just did it that way to be quick. I need to organize the groups like they are organized in ...

I’m Taking it All Off…

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Welcome to dBlogIt. I’m getting naked today. No I’m not taking off my clothes but I am showing off my body. My XHTML <body> tag that is. ;) It’s a part of CSS Naked Day, and it’s intended to promote the proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, and a good ...

This Post Was Written By A Blogging Robot

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

I wonder if the world of the future as depicted in the movies is always so green and lush in order to offset the world’s complete and total inundation with information. As our infolust turns into overload what will happen to the Internet? How will it change? Regurgitation: Mmm web vomit ...

CSS Ninjitsu Links

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Future of CSS Ninja depends on these links! How to Create Beautiful and Elegant HTML Lists Using CSS — Konstruktors Notes HTML list have become one of the most used elements for marking-up ...

My Alternative Search Engine Top Picks

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Since my recent departure from Google I’ve been on the hunt for alternative search engine solutions. I used Google to get started, but it felt dirty. I came across one little Gem of a website called Alt Search Engines. They produce a pretty good list of alternatives. Well, what I ...

Blueprint CSS Architect: The Easy Way to Layout Your Websites

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

I love Blueprint CSS. But one of the things that bothers me about it is the non-semantic usage of classes. You should never have to put column or span-12 in your HTML because classes like that describe presentational aspects of a site, not structural. I’ve described the process that I use ...

Here is a Method That is Helping Us to Rank Higher and Get More Traffic

Friday, June 8th, 2007

Everyone wants to be number one in Google and we all want more traffic to our website. We’ve been using a very simple method lately and it’s proven extremely effective. The proof is in the pudding Just so you know that it works, here are a couple of terms we’ve targeted ...

7 Good Reasons NOT to Pay Hourly for the Cost of Good Website Design

Friday, June 1st, 2007

This is the last installment in a five part series dedicated to answering the question “how much will it cost me to build a website?” How Much Does it Cost to Build a Website? The Down and Dirty Cost of Creating a Website for a Business How Much Does a 10 Page Website ...

Prices for Web Design and Development Depend On Value

Friday, May 18th, 2007

This is the fourth installment in a five part series dedicated to answering the question “how much will it cost me to build a website?” How Much Does it Cost to Build a Website? The Down and Dirty Cost of Creating a Website for a Business How Much Does a 10 Page Website ...

How Much Does a 10 Page Website Cost?

Friday, April 27th, 2007

This is the third installment of a four part series dedicated to answering the question “how much will it cost me to build a website?” How Much Does it Cost to Build a Website? The Down and Dirty Cost of Creating a Website for a Business Prices for web design and development in ...

The Down and Dirty Cost of Creating a Website for a Business

Friday, April 13th, 2007

In How Much Does it Cost to Build a Website I gave some general guidelines regarding web site setup pricing. But I felt that the prices for web design and development could be broken down even more. Here’s the continuation of our in-depth look at the cost for building a ...

The Secret of Great Small Business Websites

Friday, January 12th, 2007

One thing you'll notice about great small business websites is that they're always updated frequently. In other words, if you want a successful website you've got to keep it fresh. There's just one problem: the average small business owner knows nothing about websites or coding and certainly doesn't have the ...

How Much Does it Cost to Build a Website?

Friday, December 29th, 2006

By far, the question I hear the most is “How much does a website cost?” Well here it is, plain and simple: it's up to you. You can pay whatever you want for a website. If you want to spend millions you can, but it's likely that you won't. If ...