Several months ago, when I was unhappy with my current bank’s online payment system for my car loan, I decided to shop around; but I did not take action on that resolution until last weekend. Friday I opened my mail from the week and I had a direct mail offer from 3 financial institutions where I currently have accounts, and [Read more...]
This past week GardenSMART’s episode about River Farms featured my brother, James Gagliardi, the River Farms Horticulturalist. James thoroughly enjoyed the time he spent with the GardenSMART crew taping the episode and his television debut has been anxiously awaited by all of his family and friends. One small problem on the GardenSMART web site, however, has created a great deal [Read more...]
I was recently tricked into building an auction web site in two weeks for the American Horticultural Society. On August 21st my brother James, the River Farms Horticulturalist, called and asked me to build a web site to auction 13 unique horticultural experiences around the country. The auction was scheduled to start on September 19th.
I agreed to build the site [Read more...]
Last week I started taking a digital photography class for work with the ultimate goal of taking better portraits of our clients, which we often use in our projects. I’m not really photographically inclined. The only photos I’ve taken in years were of items I was trying to sell on Craiglist. Needless to say I have a lot of ground [Read more...]
If you need a good recipe for Ahi Tuna Pizza, or just want to check out the most recent site I finished, visit Alchemy Foods. Alchemy Foods is a catering company owned by chef Tzveti Gintcheva, her dishes are focus on using the best, freshest ingredients in interesting ways to offer unique culinary experiences. You will find the recipe as [Read more...]
I’m a big supporter of surveys that focus on our industry. In light of that, please take the Web Directions survey, State of the Web 2008. I’ll be sure to post a link to the results once they are released.
In the meantime… check out the results for A List Apart’s 2007 Web Deisgn Survey. This was the first survey ever [Read more...]
I was cleaning up my computer and found a screenshot I took of an alert I got when I installed Microsoft Expressions last year. When I saw this I thought I should even install the program, seeing it crashes, hangs and causes system failures because there can be “major issues with Web installation”.
Admitting you have a problem is the first [Read more...]
Nathan Swartz and Olivia Meiring are two Pittsburgh web designers that hit the road in their RV to travel the country while they freelance. Check out their interview on Web Monkey.
On Friday October 10th Pittsburgh had it’s first Flash conference, Flashpitt 08. Congrats to Val Head and Joe Kromer for pulling it off!
Overall I thought the conference went well, especially for it’s first year, but it started out a little rough. Lee Brimelow from Adobe was introduced with very little energy by Kromer. Brimelow’s speech was not to memorable and he didn’t have much energy either. Flashpitt needs to take a cue from Carsonified on how to start a conference.
On September 2, 2008 Google Chrome was released. Many were instantly excited and a few of us were instantly annoyed because our first thought was “one more browser to check our web sites sites in”.
I downloaded it immediately to check it out. I expect much tighter and flashier design elements from the browser named “Chrome”, but instead it looks plain [Read more...]