Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Rebooting Coffee Hero?

It was this time last year that I decided to freeze INeedCoffee and start a new coffee site called Coffee Hero.  My stated goal was to start something fresh.  From the post The Song Is Over, It’s All Behind Me:
At some point this spring, I will launch a new coffee web site.  It will [...]

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

The Case For Online Photo Storage

Every year I pay to have my photos stored with SmugMug and Flickr.  I use SmugMug for my personal photos and Flickr for the coffee photos used on Coffee Hero and INeedCoffee.   My SmugMug account has 9,831 photos.  The Flickr site holds 2,762 photos.
Let me quickly tell you my story of why I am [...]

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Web Goals for 2010

The primary focus of my web goals for 2009 was to redesign INeedCoffee. That never happened, because that goal changed into launching the new Coffee Hero website. Coffee Hero then became  the clear focus for 2009.  Also in 2009, MichaelAllenSmith.com got a redesign and DigitalColony now looks like Seattle instead of Southern California.
What is [...]

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Useful Tool?

In late May, I received an email from VW about some video that showed a coffee filter attached to the exhaust of a diesel.  Silly me.  I figured I received the email because VW knew I owned a VW diesel and that I had a coffee web site.  After posting Diesel Flavored Coffee?, I saw [...]

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

My Long Web Nightmare Is About Over

Of all the website projects I have ever done, be they personally or professionally, there is nothing I’ve disliked more than managing the INeedCoffee Newsletter.  Every month since April 1999, I’ve gone to my extranet, clicked a few buttons and then fired off a newsletter.  Doesn’t sound too bad, does it?
Creating a form to allow [...]

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