http://tallecreative.com/designmudd Ramblings on mostly Web Design & Development - Print too. Sat, 26 Aug 2006 20:25:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I bought the macbook (black) maybe 2 months ago with the idea of using it for all my email, calendar, contacts, and for “emergency work” while i’m not in the office. The idea was that if Im in the office, my desktop is better because the cinema display is huge ... http://tallecreative.com/designmudd/2006/08/27/12-macbook-12-cheesegrater/ So thought i’d stop in. I’ve been on a different kick lately - being on the computer has been feeling like “work”. So I’ve been off it, keeping myself busy with anything & everything else. I’m on a woodworker kick - I’m about to tackle a coffee table from scratch. ... http://tallecreative.com/designmudd/2005/11/05/long-time-no-post/ SugarCRM has got to be the most complete opensource project I’ve ever seen. It’s a web based Customer Relationship Manager which let’s you track your clients, projects, leads, sources… it’s all there. At first glance it seems like way too much, BUT as you play with this system, it very ... http://tallecreative.com/designmudd/2005/07/30/project-tracking-client-tracking-crm/ I’m starting a list of position titles for Web Design/Development, or Graphic Design in general. If you’ve got something to add to the list, please comment. Thanks, you’re the breast And yes, I’m putting in the photographers, writers, editors, and so on. Anyone who belongs in a firm. Level ... http://tallecreative.com/designmudd/2005/07/24/web-developmentgraphic-design-position-titles/ You’ve heard it before and I’ll say it again, when you submit your site to search engines, you should shy away from auto submission companies that promise you top listing on all the major engines. In fact, it’s the major engines that you want to submit manually. Free Web Submission’s ... http://tallecreative.com/designmudd/2005/07/17/submit-site-search-engine/ I’m on Firefox (mac) and have had some trouble installing the toolbar - but wait, there is a solution… right click this link and “save link as”. Save it to your desktop. Once you’ve got the file, all you’ve gotta do is physically drag the file on an open firefox ... http://tallecreative.com/designmudd/2005/07/13/google-toolbar-download-error/ Simple Viewer is a pretty awesome photo gallery. I’m building a couple sites that feature a gallery like this… I was basically pulling my hair out trying to find good tutorials or ready-made movie clips that I could tailor into my site (because I’m not as good at flash as ... http://tallecreative.com/designmudd/2005/07/12/flash-photo-gallery/ SELF SEO has a tool very simliar to Overture Tool, but better. It’s faster, breaks you down to searches per day, and also gives you worktracker results in addition to overture results. Give it a try. http://tallecreative.com/designmudd/2005/07/11/overture-keyword-tool/ Last night I bumped into Andre Chaperon’s Marketing Newsletter. Some Great info there and I’ll begin visiting often. Of note was his most recent entry Google Sitemaps Tutorial for WordPress - Get GoogleBot To Visit Your Site In Under 60 Seconds!. As Andre says, THIS IS HUGE. I did this ... http://tallecreative.com/designmudd/2005/07/10/google-sitemap-wordpress/ Wanna see some funny ones? Funny T-Shirt(s) http://tallecreative.com/designmudd/2005/07/10/funny-t-shirt/ Firefox is a great browser for lots of reason. I especially like all the extensions for it such as web developer, add bookmark here & PRGoogleBar. Careful with some of these, i’m on mac OSX and if your on a PC (Windows) i’m not so sure those extensions will jive, ... http://tallecreative.com/designmudd/2005/07/10/firefox-download-firefox-browser/ Yup, i got rejected - how lovely. What am I talking about you ask? DMOZ is an open directory project. As it’s “open” it’s run and moderated by tons and tons of voluteers. Not exactly easy to land a volunteer position however as you can see by going through the ... http://tallecreative.com/designmudd/2005/07/08/dmoz-editor-rejection/ This is what 1,700 people searched for in a month according to Overture Tool. Directory, DMOZ, google, msn, yahoo… I see the connection. But what the hell is that “movie” doing there? http://tallecreative.com/designmudd/2005/07/08/directory-dmoz-google-movie-msn-yahoo/ I picked up this hot tip on SEO Chat. Typically you’d go to yahoo’s submit page, type in your url, hit the button and just wait for weeks, maybe months - but there is a faster way. Check this out… If your site has an RSS feed, good. If it doesn’t, ... http://tallecreative.com/designmudd/2005/07/06/yahoo-submit-a-faster-way/ These are the keywords i’m curretly optimizing the current Talle Creative site for. The site will be changed eventually when things slow down a bit, but for now I’d just like to get a head start on raising rankings. We’re already #16 on MSN for “web design new jersey” and ... http://tallecreative.com/designmudd/2005/07/01/web-design-development-new-jersey/ Ah nothing, just needed a change. I’m a fool for simple so this one’s close enough for now and i’ll tweak dem stylesheets with time. Enjoy. http://tallecreative.com/designmudd/2005/06/22/wo-what-happened/ UPDATE - I signed up for an account here but was very disappointed with the service. It’s nothing more than linkfarming which does very little for your site in terms of both ranking and relative content. My advice on this topic is to simply stay away. - - - - - ... http://tallecreative.com/designmudd/2005/06/18/things-that-consume-my-mind/ My brother-in-law went on a trip home (Croatia) and took some shots. I felt the need to photoshop them, make them more dramatic. Here’s what I came up with. croatia pictures http://tallecreative.com/designmudd/2005/06/13/croatia-pics/ Exciting news… I know. First book sold was “Real World InDesign 2″ by Olav Martin and David Blatner. It was an OK book, but I had already known everything in it. Typically the “Real World” books are setup for the more advanced user, this one wasn’t so much… kind of started ... http://tallecreative.com/designmudd/2005/06/11/sold-first-book-on-ebay/ .mac account auto-renewed - This caught me by surprise - I didn’t need it. If you’ve got a .mac account but don’t plan on renewing, make sure to log into the account and turn off the auto-renew button. Luckily Apple gives you a refund before 30 days but I thought ... http://tallecreative.com/designmudd/2005/06/11/mac-account-auto-renewed/