Tweet In the film Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner’s character, Ray, hears a voice that says “If you build it, (they) will come”. While this may be true about a lot of things, it is not entirely true in the world of web design. A good website can lie dormant and untouched if nothing is done to announce its presence. It is not automatic that if good content occupies webspace people will come view it. [...]

Tweet As more and more people are using their phone for more than just sending and receiving calls, phone makers are doing whatever they can to enhance their features. We spend a lot of time surfing the web, viewing pictures and watching videos on our phone so it would make sense that the image we are looking at is sharp and crystal clear. AT&T put together a funny commercial for the Samsung Infuse 4G. The [...]

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Tweet You’ve let your nine-to-five go and dove head first into your new venture as an entrepreneur. There’s nobody to tell you what to do or when to do it. You are your own boss and ready to take on the world. but… There’s nobody to tell you what to do or when to do it. You’re responsible for everything now. Before your tract to self-employment, you walked into an office that was neatly organized [...]

Tweet I am happy to announce that Yellow Dogg Designs and The Dogg Blogg will be featuring a fantastic contest sponsored by UPrinting. There will be two (2) winners to walk away with 100 postcards each. If you run a design company or simply a small business trying to promote your brand, why not take this opportunity to create a new set of marketing materials for your services. Giveaway Details 100 Postcards for each winner* [...]

Tweet Ever needed to reduce the size of a large batch of images at one time so you could email them? Or have you needed smaller images for a gallery on your website? Need all your photos to be the same size? Here’s what you have been waiting for. The Shrink O’Matic!!! If this sounds like a spoof of low-budget infomercial it isn’t. Well it is but The Shrink O’Matic does actually exist.   What [...]

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Tweet Traci A. Smith, CEO and founder of The S.H.E. Agency, requested I do a blog that focused on how business owners can communicate with their clients without giving out their personal phone number. This is especially a concern for entrepreneurs who work out of their homes. While we need to be visible and accessible in order to earn a living, our safety is a real concern. I felt this was a great opportunity to [...]

Tweet “Hand me that Kleenex”. “I’m going to Xerox these forms”. “Google that information for me”. These are brands that have become a part of our everyday language. Sometimes the popularity of a brand becomes so large that its name is used synonymously with an action or thing, even when that particular product brand is not actually being used. They even have a name for this. It’s called a genericized trademark. A genericized trademark (also [...]

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