A few years ago we were struggling to navigate the somewhat murky world of childhood money management. I talked to friends and fellow parents, young and old, to determine the best course of action. Do we give our kids an allowance at all? Is it tied to chores? How much do we give? Do we make them … [Read more...]
Checking Out the Online Competition
January 12, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
This morning I was introduced to a site I hadn't seen before, and I've been addicted to it all day. It's called Compete, and gives web designers, online marketing professionals, and regular joes the opportunity to compare the success metrics of competing businesses. For example, I tried the … [Read more...]
Quick Way to Sample Your Fonts
January 6, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
Pardon this brief interruption in between my recent trip posts, while I tell the graphic designers among you about a really useful tool I recently came across. Wordmark.it allows you to preview any snippet of text in all of the fonts loaded on your system... wait for it... all at once... through a … [Read more...]
Streamline Your Appointment Scheduling
November 15, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
A recent trip to the hair salon caused me to seriously consider how small businesses (think therapists, doctors, stylists, contractors, and so on) schedule appointments. The salon in question makes all appointments with *gasp* a pencil and paper. And in case you haven't fallen off your chair yet... … [Read more...]
Adding Third-Party Content
April 20, 2010 by · 1 Comment
When you create web sites, you often need to integrate content from other sources. Suppose you wanted to load the current weather forecast into a page on your site. If your business isn't weather, you're probably not going to store a large database of weather-related information on your own web … [Read more...]
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