Posted on March 31, 2007
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My dad, David recently went to South Padre Island during spring break with a group of about 20 from his church. They called the event “Beach Reach” and the idea was to reach out and minister to the students at the beach in any way they could during the week. They helped provide some meals and shuttled kids around to help prevent drunk driving incidents, as well as many other things.
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Posted on March 31, 2007
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CSS Superdouche is a handly little tool to well, clean up your sloppy CSS files. A friend referred me to this the other day, and I’ve been using it ever since.
It’s basically a web app where you enter the URL to your CSS file, select from a few options like “remove all whitespace, indent CSS, & newline before opening brace”, the click the submit button to have it grab your CSS and pretty it up. It’s that simple.
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Posted on March 29, 2007
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My co-worker Matt found this cool website the other day that sells gourmet coffee. You see I mentioned the website before the coffee because well, the site is really nicely done and that was the initial draw. The red and black and gold is very dramatic. We had never heard of Gorilla Coffee before but heck, the packaging was so nice we just had to get some.
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Posted on March 29, 2007
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We’ve been having a lot of discussion lately about a re-branding strategy for our company. I’ve also been involved in quite a few other re-branding efforts of late and it’s mind-numbing just how little some people think it through. My group is actually going through a serious process of defining our company and our brand, but I think a lot of people just fling darts at a board until something sticks.
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Posted on March 28, 2007
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Lauren pointed me to this letter today by an unknown author. It’s a really clever metaphor for how clients perceive website designers and developers. There is still some kind of mindset that either causes them to devalue our time, our processes and ultimately our expertise.
It’s a constant battle trying to educate the clients and manage their expectations, and to ultimately deliver a quality product when we’re faced with expectations not so much unlike these.
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