Internet messaging services might seem like a juvenile endeavor. Oh those crazy kids with their AIM and their twitter. Don’t be so quick to dismiss these services though. Given the right situations these communication services can be incredibly useful. My beautiful fiance and I are currently shopping for wedding / reception venues right now and [...]
Bookmarks are a great tool for navigating the internet. Basically a bookmark takes you to a certain webpage that you would like to return to frequently. Some common bookmarked pages might be yahoo.com, google.com, or yellowpages.com. Firefox 3.0 simplified the bookmarking process by adding one-click bookmarking just by toggling the star icon that shows up [...]
In part two of my series on computing efficiently, I want to consider the topic of tabbed browsing which is having different pages opened in one browser which show up at tabs just above the page you are viewing like this.
Helping people (family, friends, coworkers…) recently has inspired the idea in me that a series on computing productivity would be very helpful to many. So for the next couple of weeks I will give you all a useful pointer to increase your efficiency while computing. One of the most universal computing standards just behind save, [...]
I have had several recent interactions where people have asked me for advice concerning their overall transition from dial-up to high speed. I know that for a lot of you this might not be relevant, and I hope it isn’t, but I have noticed that while tons of people switch to high speed internet every [...]
I thought that we could all use a little pick me up, and this is short but sweet – a good read. Thank you Seth Godin (who I believe has a brand new book out named Tribes.) Check it out here. I also found while doing my “reading” (google reader) a very very very simple [...]
A while ago Jennifer Kyrnin, from About.com, did a short research project to survey the color palettes of the some major players in the web world. I feel like her analysis is very interesting, and since reading her article I have been noticing this same patterning toward a neutral (usually gray) palette with one distinctive [...]
Most of our customers have a problem with flash. They are extremely pleased with our banner and poster options, but they wonder how to display their custom work either homemade or those made here at TatStore. The most common solution is to actually tat some cardboard, poster board, wood, or other surface. This is a [...]
I just finished a book that Mark, our eCommerce expert, loaned to me a while. The book, entitled Prioritizing Web Usability, by Jakob Nielsen and Hoa Loranger was a great read. I would call it a must-read who anyone who owns a website, whether you do the design work yourself or not. It covers everything [...]
Hyper Text Markup Language or HTML is the backbone of the Internet. You probably know that, but you might be surprised how frequently even a minimal working knowledge comes in handy. Maybe you want to spice up your comments to blogs with images, emphatic elements like bold or italics, or even change your font and [...]
