Host your own email with Google
If you happen to host a website with Spigot’s hosting company Cinch, you’ll know that we also provide email hosting with your account that is connected to your domain (e.g. [email protected]). It’s a decent service, but very basic. And I mean very basic. Here’s the account specs: We limit each…
Read More ⊕When to hire a web designer
A recent Boagworld podcast (article here) argues that the best time to hire a web designer is now, even if you’re not currently planning on redesigning your website.
Read More ⊕Use a CRM to Get More Business
As a client-based small business it’s very important to keep track of clients and prospective clients and the communication between them. Emails, phone calls, in-person meetings, tasks, follow ups, introductions, handshakes, and games of charades – losing track can mean losing business. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) apps are designed to…
Read More ⊕Small Business R&D
The term ‘R&D’ is usually heard in context of big industrial corporations and the pharmaceutical industry. It also brings to mind big budgets, big spending, big dollars, big big big. The most successful big companies in the world all have a Research and Development division who’s sole purpose is to…
Read More ⊕Why we don’t do Flash
In the early days of Spigot Design, Flash based websites were all the rage. We’ve long since learned new tricks, and as a result have pretty much dropped Flash based work all together. Not a lot has been written on why we’ve given it up, so perhaps it’s time (although…
Read More ⊕Spigot Design Wants You to Get Noticed
The following is an article printed in the April 22nd issue of the Park Record, and is reprinted with permission: Website creator favors simple, clean & modern By ANDREW KIRK Of the Record staff Language purists may not appreciate that “Googling” is now an accepted verb, but the reality is…
Read More ⊕Park City Ink
Thanks to Andrew Kirk of the Park City Record for the great write-up on Spigot Design. UPDATE on 5/19/09 – I guess the Park Record doesn’t archive their articles for free, so that link is now broken. I’ll repost it here after I get permission.
Read More ⊕Web hosting: Finding happiness
One of the services we offer here at Spigot Design is high quality web hosting. You may wonder what we mean by hight quality… hosting is hosting right? Well, not really. 9 Steps To A Happy Relationship With Your Hosting Provider from Smashing Magazine offers a few good points to…
Read More ⊕3 reasons against hiring your friend's neighbor's kid
If you’re a business owner looking to get your enterprise on the web, here are three very good reasons to avoid hiring the kid down the block to design and develop your website.
Read More ⊕Font Explorer X Pro vs FontCase
Font management has thankfully been something I haven’t had to think much about in the last few years, ever since Linotype came out with Font Explorer X for both the Mac and PC. FEX was free, and it worked – while others on the scene at the time such as…
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