Archive for the ‘Business’ Category
Telus Canada and a Crappy Site
Monday, January 2nd, 2012
Rant warning. Just trying to get my bill from Telus (my local ISP) and what do I find, but a site that won’t load my eBills in Chrome. It works in Firefox and according to Telus it works in IE9 but only if you use compatibility mode. Telus Canada get your head out of your [...]
Leave a Message
Monday, August 1st, 2011
Yes another rant post. After probably the fourth call from a number I dont know went to voicemail I questioned on Twitter to see if others treat their phones like me. Phone Etiquette I don’t answer my phone unless I know who it is (caller ID) and it is the proper time for me to [...]
Drawing a Line with Social Media
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
It’s not news to anyone that social media is everywhere. We’re all on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Foursquare, Gowala…at what point does it all this sharing of our life become too much? How much do we let our personal and business life become intertwined? This is an especially poignant question for freelancers who do business under [...]
Adobe Makes Goodish
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
So you read my rant that published last night about Adobe confirming a platform change for CS4 with their online support. Then when talking to them about actually doing it, now that a $2000 computer is in the house, the story changed. It seems that @MilesForrest sent that blog post on to Adobe and a [...]
I Wish Adobe Would Die – Or Adobe’s Customer Service Motto, We’re not happy till you’re not happy
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
Update So Adobe got wind of this little blog post and got in touch. Greatly reduced cost on the upgrade to CS5. You can read my thoughts on it here. Recently I made the switch to a fully OS X environment. For a few months now I’ve been doing all my design work on PC [...]
Launch Perfect or On Time?
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
So I recently launched Your Workflow which was inspired a few months ago by @dennisjbell. As with all personal projects the ideas sit in your head for a while taking shape. Since personal projects don’t always really pay the bills it’s easy to get them sidetracked which means they’d never actually get done. But if [...]
Time for a Change
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
I’ve been blogging on random things here for a few years now. I’ve taken a few breaks here and there of course but I think I have been fairly consistent and accomplished the goals needed for this site/blog. Today I announce that I will be changing the focus of the site and blog. The Focus [...]
5 Things A Client Should Ask a Prospective Web Designer or Agency
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Evaluating a company or person to build your website is a tricky thing. What do you expect? What things do you need to know? Here are 5 questions that a client should be asking all companies in the running to build their next website. Have you worked on any similar projects? While it is possible [...]
5 Jobs Clients Have During a Web Project
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
For some reason many clients think that the only job they have in developing their websites is to hire the person/company that is going to build the site. Unfortunately they haven’t realized that once they hire someone to build the website their work has just begun. Establish Your Business Goals: A site is not just [...]
Make Mundane Tasks Fun Online for Conversions
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Quite a while ago 37signals/Basecamp did a survey on their products. Now I normally fill out surveys of products I use because I’d like them to improve in ways I think are good but this survey from 37signals was actually fun to fill out. The Questions While many of the question were totally normal and [...]
