Archive for the 'Internet' Category

How do you find content and thus people without categorization–without keywords–without labels?

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Back in May, I posted on blogging organization and design. Since then, I have set up Cultured Media and the poetry knook although the visual design of both and of Rachel and Stephen has not begun. Adding Cultured Media has made the focus more narrow, eventually Cultured Media will contain book and music reviews.
But where [...]

Hard drive crash and file corruption stole my Saturday

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Last night, my computer begin to freeze for 10 seconds every five minutes or so. I have had similar problems before and knew it was the hard disk. The last time, I had scanned and fixed corrupt files using Windows and this had fixed the problem. I restarted my computer and it said “Cannot read [...]

SMJdesign network feed up and running!

Monday, June 11th, 2007

I am making my blogs into networks that read each others posts which means the blogs are co-dependent and thus could cause each other to fault. I have been able to create a master feed of all my blogs at SMJdesign.com/feed/ If you are currently subscribing to Rachel and Stephen, and would like to subscribe [...]

New poetry knook? Blogging organization and design?

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

I’m considering a revamp of the poetry knook. Why? I’m not sure. I would like to re-design all my sites eventually. Even though there are kids going to sleep hungry around the world, I have learned so much and reformatted a few blogs into corporate news sections and it is annoying to give someone else [...]

Recent project completed (probably 100+ hours)

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

I just completed a massive project at work (probably 100+ hours). It is a Flash/blog/HTML project for an architecture firm based here in Indianapolis.
As I look back, I see how little I knew when I graduated college. Now, it is a matter of creativity and not ability. And as most web designers know, the creativity [...]

What do you want from me?

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

I know there is a small group of people that read this blog–mainly friends and family. So I’m curious what you, the reader would like from these posts? Entertainment? Education? Information? Debate? News? Community?
The funny thing is that there is no real topic here, except what I run into on a daily basis whether that [...]

I’m officially done with 2006 taxes today

Monday, February 12th, 2007

I just finished doing my spouse’s taxes this afternoon. Everything was e-file, so all that was sent in was a signature card for one of us. And it was all free, yes, free. You can use any of these business to e-file your federal return for free. The one I picked though doesn’t file your [...]

Coupons and deals

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

Hello, my fellow coupon clippers. As you have probably guessed from the appendix of discounts on my wedding’s gift registry page. I’m all about promotional deals. Marketers lose money on me all the time.
For credit card promotions, the easiest thing to do is to Google “credit card deals $100.” Every few months for the past [...]

Where are the wedding pictures? Where are the Ireland pictures?

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

So everyone is wondering about our wedding pictures. I have them. I have had them for over a week actually. I just been getting in from work in the morning (yes, I did say “in” from work). So the wedding photos and thank you notes and photographs of Ireland have been put on hold. It [...]

Ranked 1st on Google for “Flash Parallax”

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Of course, most people would type in Flash parallax without quotes and I would my media blog, DesignWell, would be ranked 12th.
I have definitely learned that Google’s search engine likes Google’s blog (Blogger.com). My posts on it are higher than any other pages I’ve ever posted (well, in the past 4 years, since I was [...]


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