Design & Development Blog

Notes from the shop — process, tools, and the occasional opinion.
May 11
2010

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,…
Apr 26
2010

Fontsquirrel.com saves @font-face

Note: This post is a continutation of Sorry Typekit, you’re unusable (for now). With the launch of the new spigotdesign.com/ site I was very…
Apr 22
2010

Webkit { background: transparent;} bug

I'm a Huuuuge fan of the Webkit Open Source Project. It's the engine behind Safari, Apple's browser for both OS X and Windows. If…
Apr 15
2010

PCFD Site Update

This week we launched a new version of the Park City Fire District site. The design remained the same (for the most part), while…
Apr 13
2010

Sorry Typekit, you’re unusable (for now)

With the launch of the new site I decided to try once again to give @font-face another try. I've been disappointed in the past…
Dec 29
2009

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…
Dec 20
2009

Dropping MobileMe

10/21/2011 Update: This is an article from 2009 about moving from MobileMe to Google for syncing of contacts, calendars, and email. While I did…
Nov 6
2009

Gravity Forms vs Every Other Form

If you have a website, it's virtually a given that you have a contact page with a form on it for collecting messages from…
Sep 24
2009

iChat: Multiple Accounts, One Contact List

Nov 2011 OSX Lion Update: Chax does not currently work in Lion. The main reason I used Chax was to consolidate contact lists across…
Sep 8
2009

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…