How Much to Charge for Side Work?
Calculating what to charge for freelance work on the side is a question I wrestled with for a good while. Search the internet and you’ll come up with everything from vague answers to complicated formulas. What I’ve landed on is a simple formula: Take your yearly salary working full-time and drop-off the last three zeros. […]
Day Three of Search Engine Strategies New York
The keynote speaker this morning at Search Engine Strategies Conference in New York this morning was Gordon McLeod discussed the evolution of the online Wall Street Journal. Interesting to note has been the bounce-back of mainstream online media. Like the WSJ many outlets have come of age in their online environment catching-up with the blogosphere. […]
Day Two of Search Engine Strategies New York
While staying in New York I wouldn’t miss the opportunity to stop-by the John Lennon Memorial. It was a moving experience to think of that fateful day when John was taken at a young age. I knew that Scott Blitstein from mythermos.com would appreciate this in particular. The memorial is right across the street from […]
Day One of Search Engine Strategies New York
This is my first trip to the Big Apple. As a history major in college, I have a deep appreciation for the architecture and history of this amazing city. Attending the Search Engine Strategies Conference in New York is an amazing experience of witnessing a city rich in history while learning from cutting-edge marketing and […]
Six Steps to Super-Charge Photoshop Selection with Quick Mask
While Photoshop is absolutely packed with bells and whistles, there are a few key tools to unlocking its full potential. The Quick Mask feature in Photoshop is one of them. Quick Mask is essentially a selection tool on steroids. It allows one to select down to the pixel a given area of a photo. While […]
Thought Sparking for a Year Now
Actually this blog started in February of 2007 but I figured it’s worth noting all the same. It’s been an interesting ride. The blog started slowly premiering on blogspot before metriculating over to its own domain shortly thereafter. Spring, summer and early fall were quite an active season for the site. The winter has been […]
Making the Most of a Small House
With our oldest nearing official teen-hood, we debated whether to do some remodeling in our current location or relocate. Living in a house that is only a little over 1,200 square feet for five people, it’s tempting to think bigger would be better. After researching other options for residence in the area we’ve come back […]
Evolution of a Website
In an ideal world there would never be any do-overs. One thing I’ve learned from being a web developer in a corporation is that this is no ideal world. When the scope of a project or marketing campaign changes so must the web.
TechTourSite.com was originally a very small microsite of just a few pages with […]
Just Do It: Vote Today
As I walked into the voting location today I asked the folks there, "where are all the people?" While I know a good number voted early, the turn-out still seemed a bit appauling to me. Living in Texas, we are getting a goodly amount of press today as the day could possibly be a defining […]
Putting a Project to Bed
Going live with a website is always a fun process. This past weekend we launched a site I’ve been working on for a good bit. As I’ve referenced in a recent post, it was built upon WordPress. The site is onedayacademy.com, a school for homeschoolers in Austin, Texas. Some of the nice features of the […]
