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Archive for October, 2005

Be a “Realigner”, not a “Redesigner”

Friday, October 28th, 2005

Chris turned me on to this article from A List Apart that really addresses one of the core issues of the web design business - realigning vs. redesigning. Go read it - I’ll wait here.
I think that realigning is one of the core facets of what we do here. This very site has been a [...]

Visual Noise: What Are Users Expectations For a Website?

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

I was surfing today and ran across a Fast Company Article that gave quick tips for business blogging. The article itself was good - but what really caught my attention was the amount of ’stuff’ on the page - advertisements, navigation and heading images, and comment bars. Other business ‘e-content’ sites, such as: eWeek, Slashdot, [...]

Extranets, customer management and the web designer

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

If you read the previous entry, you know that we’re excited to begin a test launch phase of our new extranet, mentavius-clients.com. It brings up an interesting issue that I’ve seen discussed on a number of message boards - how does the independent web designer track clients and customer information?
The last four years have been [...]

New site launch - mentavius-clients.com

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

We’re excited about the test launch of our new web site, mentavius-clients.com. Beginning this week, new design clients will be able to log in to their own extranet area, review proposed designs, and get other information - for example, how to change their DNS entries to point to our hosting servers. This is something we’ve [...]

SBCGlobal revisited

Thursday, October 20th, 2005

Just for the record.. we’ve never received any help at all from SBC Global other than a runaround of epic proportions, followed by a final, cold, stony silence. Despite my frequent attempts to understand what was wrong, they have basically completely abandoned us.
Fortunately, I do have a solution (for now).
If you are NOT an SBCGlobal [...]


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