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R&D for small business
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 engines are the [...]
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 [...]
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 time [...]
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 [...]