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Tag: 2009

Recent Project: Vermont Quilt Festival

We just finished a project for a local quilt festival.  This is their new website, built in conjunction with Graycat Studio:
Vermont Quilt Festival
The entire website is wrapped around Joomla! template and completely customizable for them.  This was an interesting project, and we still have a lot more work to do for them.  We’re going to [...]

Tidbit Tuesday on PHP: Holiday Notices for Business Sites

This is a handy script for managing an out of office message on your website.  I find this very useful on business websites when you’re tired of making that one little change to let people know when the office will be shut down.  With about 15 minutes of extra work, you only need to do [...]

Why can’t Google Analytics highlight weekends?

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could highlight weekends in Google Analytics?  I could be missing something and it’s possible, but I don’t know how to do it.  This is the layover I photoshop together for clients:

Printing, Picas, Points, and Pixels: How’re they related?

Have you ever wondered why fonts use points, or what that unit of measure is in Photoshop – the Pica?  Did you know that pixes and screen fonts are very much related to old school printing?  Here’s the place where I can bring it all together for you.  First the definitions:
Points
There are 72 points in [...]

Affiliate Summit West 2009 Pictures (Part 2)

Ok everyone, here is part three of the pictures.  They’re somewhat out of order from the other posts.  Imagine that they go between the two sets.  These are from the “missing” memory card that my wife had!