Facebook Layout Changes Are Coming

Posted by on Jan 19, 2010 in Social Media, Web | One Comment

I just received an e-mail from Facebook detailing the 2010 changes to the page layout. The most significant change will be in the form of a much smaller page canvas as the size is going from 760px wide to 520px. From Facebook, “As part of a larger effort to improve user experience and promote consistency ...



How to force Feedburner to update your feed

Posted by on Jan 2, 2010 in Web | No Comments

If you haven’t heard of Feedburner skip to the end of my post to learn more. However, if you do use Feedburner and occasionally run into a problem where your feed publishes a rogue post or you wish to remove a post entirely, you may be interested in knowing that you can force an update ...



Starbucks security fail, and why communication is important

Posted by on Sep 18, 2009 in Advertising, Thought, Web | 2 Comments

Even the big guys can get it wrong. I haven’t written this to call out Starbucks, or anyone else for that matter, rather I intend it to be educational. But lets start with the story. I had stopped at Starbucks recently to pick up my grande Mocha (why can’t I just call it a medium?) ...



Review: PercentMobile.com

Posted by on Aug 13, 2009 in Mobile, Technology, Web | 2 Comments

I’ve been using PercentMobile for a couple of weeks and while the service is pretty simple to use I am impressed with tool’s value. Founded by David Harper, PercentMobile is built on top of a much more robust service called TigTags. The service is quite expensive at the moment, but promising a tiered service in ...



What Your Analytics Aren't Telling You

So you’ve logged into Google Analytics and notice that your top referrer this past week was Twitter. Excellent, your social media strategy is working. Or is it? You might not even have a Twitter account setup, yet you are receiving traffic from Twitter. What sort of conversation is happening around your brand that you are ...



What Your Analytics Aren’t Telling You

So you’ve logged into Google Analytics and notice that your top referrer this past week was Twitter. Excellent, your social media strategy is working. Or is it? You might not even have a Twitter account setup, yet you are receiving traffic from Twitter. What sort of conversation is happening around your brand that you are ...



Advent Calendar

Posted by on Dec 8, 2008 in Personal, Web | No Comments

As a child I really enjoyed the excitement of an Advent Calendar during the holidays. My mother would always purchase one for my sister and I, and to this day the holiday feels incomplete unless I have one. That yearly tradition of waking up, opening the calendar, and receiving a nice little gift or chocolate ...



WordPress 2.7 Login Fix

Posted by on Dec 6, 2008 in Web | No Comments

WordPress 2.7 is great. I am currently running the Release Candidate and I must admit it is quite polished. Up until recently, all of my sites were on 2.6. After seeing some of the new features I didn’t want to wait until it was out of Beta to use it for this blog. The improved ...



960 Grid System

Posted by on Nov 30, 2008 in Web | No Comments

Developing for 1024×768, and higher, browser resolutions? Wondering what width you should design for? I would recommend the 960 Grid System.

Analytic Misstep Gives Me Hell

Posted by on Nov 29, 2008 in Web | No Comments

Working in the interactive industry has made me impatient, especially with the Web sites of others. The culprit this evening is MTV’s MTVMusic.com. I was desperate to get my blood pumping and to hear “Gives You Hell” by the All-American Rejects. Yet, as I dropped the URL into the address page, I found myself with ...