Shane McConkey 1969 – 2009
I got to meet Shane as a lift op in Crested Butte one…
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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…
Park City Chamber luncheon with Rich Karlgaard
On Monday I attended the annual Economic Forecast luncheon put on by the…
DRM Free iTunes
I've never been much of a fan of purchasing music off of iTunes…
What’s wrong with RSS
What's right with RSS Maybe I should start out by mentioning what's right…
Rethinking Flickr and MobileMe
Cause I still haven't found what I'm looking for It's been an on-again…
Historic Day
What a difference 8 years make. 8 years ago, I and much of…
Harvest feature updates before end of ’08
The holiday season was not just for egg nog quaffing and loitering under…
Web design business tools
How SD gets the day to day business done. When asked what I…
Giving MarsEdit a test drive
I find that the WordPress Admin window for adding a new post is…
An open letter to Iridesco
Dear Iridesco, Let me start by saying that I love Harvest. It has…
Dropping future support for IE6
Checking the stats for spigotdesign.com today revealed that less than 10% of the…
New Spigot Design logo unveiled
While not a new logo per se, we're proud to announce a cleaner,…
Better email communication: Part II
Tame the multi-pointed beast Note: Part 2 in a series on better email…
Better email communication: Part I
Imagine if Moses had come down from that mountain not with two huge…
First Hand: How to begin a blog
When starting a section on your site that you intend to update on…