When it comes designing websites, start-up companies are many times victim to the old saying that states “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Unlike large corporations who have in-house design teams, start-ups and small businesses are left to their own ill-equipped devices or left in the hands of an overseas design firm. It generally takes a third party to point out a website’s physical and esthetic flaws. Sometimes it takes a few hundred of your dearest friends and colleagues to convince you that your website is ugly or worse, doesn't functional as intended. An ugly or broken website can come in many shapes and sizes. It may have a horrendous color scheme, a nasty logo, outdated … [Read more...]
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2011 12 Dec
Social Media: Is it a Help or a Hinder?
Manners. I love manners. I love people with manners. I love it when my children show good manners. I even love it when my dogs sit and stay and quit barking on command because that shows manners and good upbringing. I taught my step-son "prom manners" and delighted in the fact that he came home appalled at the kids in his group that were never taught "prom manners". I studied a 700 page book on table manners, utensil placement and use, and formal conduct for weeks before a formal dinner party so there was no way I could gaffe... It has come to my attention that in the arena of social media manners, I am an underground cave dweller, who should not be allowed to see daylight because there … [Read more...]
