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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. joe@joes.com). It’s a decent service, but very basic. And I mean very basic. Here’s the account specs: We limit each hosting client to 5 email [...]
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.
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 help wrangle all this information [...]
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 push the limits and find [...]
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 here’s an early tidbit from [...]
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 that Google and similar search [...]
2009 MacHeist bundle review
While there are quite a few people out there who detest the MacHeist event, I for one, love it. If you started from the beginning at The Giving Tree and subsequently participated in all the heists and mini-heists – and purchased the bundle – a total of 50 apps (at my count here) were available, [...]
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.
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 think about when choosing a [...]
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.
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 Extensis Suitcase were wracked with [...]
5 tips on promoting your website for free
There are a number of ways to promote your website that involve parting with hard earned dollars, but I’ll often tell clients that the best ways to market your site are actually free. Well, free might not actually be precise, since nothing is ever truly free. So instead of money, the following tips will cost [...]
Park City Chamber luncheon with Rich Karlgaard
On Monday I attended the annual Economic Forecast luncheon put on by the Park City Chamber, where the publisher of Forbes, Rich Karlgaard was the keynote speaker.
DRM Free iTunes
I’ve never been much of a fan of purchasing music off of iTunes because of, and only because of, the DRM issue. Thankfully the DRM dark ages are over, and I’ve just upgraded my entire library. It cost me all of $15.
New 'client login' link
I’ve finally added a login link to the Spigot Design project management system for our existing clients. Scroll down to the the footer and you’ll find a link titled ‘client login.’
Harvest feature updates before end of '08
The holiday season was not just for egg nog quaffing and loitering under the mistletoe for the folks over at Iridesco. They managed to push out a new set of minor features to their Harvest time tracking app. Here’s the rundown: Estimate by people hours. Duplicate invoice. Quarterly recurring invoice. Optional project notes. Department for [...]
Web design business tools
How SD gets the day to day business done. When asked what I do for a living, my response is generally, “I’m a web designer.” And while it’s certainly true that I spend the majority of the time building websites, I also spend a lot of time running my business. I don’t have a full [...]
Giving MarsEdit a test drive
I find that the WordPress Admin window for adding a new post is much too small. Yes, I know you can make it bigger by dragging the form window open, but it messes with the layout of the site and feels more like a band-aid solution than a robust answer. Add the fact that I [...]
An open letter to Iridesco
Dear Iridesco, Let me start by saying that I love Harvest. It has saved me a ton of time in billing for projects and tracking how much time each aspect of a project takes. I agree completely when you say it’s the ‘worlds best time tracking application.’ It’s worth every cent of the subscription costs.
Dropping future support for IE6
Checking the stats for spigotdesign.com today revealed that less than 10% of the visitors here are using Internet Explorer 6. This is great news! This means we can now officially drop support for this outdated browser, at least on this site. Now that I’ve reached the vaunted 10%, and with newer browsers continuing to improve [...]