Last April I redesigned my portal site using a piece of typing paper, a Sharpie pen and a scanner. It was a hit, but it had two problems. I insultingly referred to INeedCoffee as the “old” coffee site and it was too large. Unless you had a large desktop monitor, it required vertical scrolling to [...]
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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 in [...]
MichaelAllenSmith – The Sharpie Redesign
Today I got the silly idea to hand draw a web page using a marker. So I took out a piece of paper, grabbed a Sharpie and scribbled out a redesign for MichaelAllenSmith.com. Then I scanned the ditto, chopped it up and added mouseover images with just a splash of color. I give you The [...]
The Trilogy of Awful Web Hosts: Pair, DreamHost and MyDomain
This week was the perfect storm of poor web hosting. It has been over three years since I last fired a web host. This week I’ve already fired two and will be firing another one shortly. Pair.com – Let me start by saying that if you are a scripting PHP guru, Pair.com is a good [...]
My 10 Year Web Commitment
Today I extended the domain registration for these domains out until July 31, 2018. criticalmas.com digitalcolony.com ineedcoffee.com michaelallensmith.com and a new site not yet launched Why would I take on 10 years of registration costs now? I only saved a few bucks by extending out a decade. Last year I learned that the search engines [...]
