Nibbler: Awesome Website Testing
There's a lot of ways to test and benchmark your website, but few…
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How to get Google to Like You
So you want Google to like you, eh? You want to be at…
WordPress Users: Install Jetpack
Since it first came out I've been installing the WordPress.com Stats plugin on…
Microsoft: Stop Using IE6
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Now with HTML5
It wasn't that long ago since our last major site rebuild, and yet…
Rebuilding Spigot (again)
For the last year and a half Spigot has been building client sites…
Park City Over the Air TV Reception
[caption id="attachment_3040" align="alignright" width="269"] Thank you tvfool.com, thank you![/caption] Our family has never…
Why we use WordPress
Not much has been written on this site about WordPress, but over the…
Host your own email with Google
If you happen to host a website with Spigot's hosting company Cinch, you'll…
When to hire a web designer
A recent Boagworld podcast (article here) argues that the best time to hire…
Use a CRM to Get More Business
[caption id="attachment_2836" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Stop the leaks with a CRM"][/caption] As a client-based…
Fontsquirrel.com saves @font-face
Note: This post is a continutation of Sorry Typekit, you’re unusable (for now).…
Webkit { background: transparent;} bug
I'm a Huuuuge fan of the Webkit Open Source Project. It's the engine…
PCFD Site Update
This week we launched a new version of the Park City Fire District…
Sorry Typekit, you’re unusable (for now)
With the launch of the new site I decided to try once again…
Small Business R&D
[caption id="attachment_2023" align="alignleft" width="210" caption="Small business R&D"][/caption] The term 'R&D' is usually heard…
Dropping MobileMe
10/21/2011 Update: This is an article from 2009 about moving from MobileMe to…
Gravity Forms vs Every Other Form
If you have a website, it's virtually a given that you have a…
iChat: Multiple Accounts, One Contact List
Nov 2011 OSX Lion Update: Chax does not currently work in Lion. The…
Why we don’t do Flash
In the early days of Spigot Design, Flash based websites were all the…
Chamber of Commerce Email List Update
Just a quick update on the Park City Chamber email list article from…
Fresh Foundation for Spigot
As a professional web designer, it comes with the territory that one's own…
WordPress 2.8 Upgrade Error
This morning I was pleased to find that a new version of WordPress…
Getting 1Password to work in Safari 4
I'm sure the guys at Agile Web Solutions will have a fix for…
Fontin Sans on spigotdesign.com
Web designers have long desired to be able to use more fonts than…
New design & theme switcher
As you can tell, we've launched a new look to the site –…
Chamber of Commerce email lists
One of the many benefits of being a Chamber of Commerce member in…
Spigot Design Wants You to Get Noticed
The following is an article printed in the April 22nd issue of the…
2009 MacHeist bundle review
While there are quite a few people out there who detest the MacHeist…
Park City Ink
Thanks to Andrew Kirk of the Park City Record for the great write-up…
Shane McConkey 1969 – 2009
I got to meet Shane as a lift op in Crested Butte one…
Web hosting: Finding happiness
One of the services we offer here at Spigot Design is high quality…
Custom built websites vs web templates
Here at Spigot Design, we plug ourselves as a 'custom' web design studio,…
Drop down menus are good?
While I've designed a few in my day, it's standard protocol around the…
YUI Grids vs Blueprint (CSS Frameworks)
CSS Frameworks have been around for a while now, and while there are…
3 reasons against hiring your friend’s neighbor’s kid
If you're a business owner looking to get your enterprise on the web,…
DIY vs Hiring an Expert
Ever since I got my first car I've been a do-it-yourselfer. The first…
Font Explorer X Pro vs FontCase
[caption id="attachment_832" align="alignright" width="266" caption="FontCase vs Font Explorer X Pro"][/caption] Font management has…
5 tips on promoting your website for free
There are a number of ways to promote your website that involve parting…
Collaborating with the competition
Recently I met for coffee with two local web designers, Greg Schmidt of…