Design & Development Blog

Notes from the shop — process, tools, and the occasional opinion.
Mar 30
2009

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...…
Mar 27
2009

Custom built websites vs web templates

Here at Spigot Design, we plug ourselves as a 'custom' web design studio, with heavy emphasis on the custom (and design) parts. But occasionally…
Mar 25
2009

Drop down menus are good?

While I've designed a few in my day, it's standard protocol around the studio to swat drop down menus like the annoying, dysfunctional bugs they…
Mar 24
2009

YUI Grids vs Blueprint (CSS Frameworks)

CSS Frameworks have been around for a while now, and while there are many detractors, the benefits they provide make them an attractive option…
Mar 13
2009

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…
Feb 18
2009

DIY vs Hiring an Expert

Ever since I got my first car I've been a do-it-yourselfer. The first time something went wrong that car I brought it in to…
Feb 12
2009

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…
Feb 8
2009

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…
Feb 6
2009

Collaborating with the competition

Recently I met for coffee with two local web designers, Greg Schmidt of GS Web and Nate Flint from Flint Digital. We met for…
Feb 4
2009

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…