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A Few Changes Under the Hood

I’ve made a few changes to the blog lately, under the hood and visually over the past month. If all works out I should have much to talk about in the coming weeks about my findings. I have noticed positive increases thus far, so that is good news. Keep tuned, find out if these changes [...]

I had an opportunity recently to get back to a little design work with a local flooring company, Waccamaw Floor Covering. I had fun with it but I also tried to integrate a few new things I’ve not done in the past, everything from seo, flowplayer, to google maps (street view). In the end I [...]

Reading a Book

Never thought I would say this since I’m long out of college, but I am in fact reading a book. (Hence why I’ve been quiet here on the blog the last few days) I purchased the The Smashing Book. So far it has been very educational. It is broken up into several really useful topics, [...]

New, Simplified Look

I’ve been looking into simplifying my site a little and yet improving some search engine optimization, and as you may have noticed I’ve made a couple tweaks. First I removed the busy space background, and went a little more solid(not really for seo, but was tired of seeing such a busy background). I also added [...]

1) Use Opera Desktop browser with the small screen view (View->Small Screen). 2) Use Firefox Developer Toolbar do use the Handheld Stylesheet (CSS->Display CSS By Media Type->Handheld). 3) Avoid Caching things that shouldn’t be cached. If you’re using a lot of GET requests or sometimes posting forms, be careful of caching. An easy way to [...]