Historic Day
What a difference 8 years make. 8 years ago, I and much of the country was feeling down and depressed and fearful of the…
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…
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…
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…
An open letter to Iridesco
Dear Iridesco, Let me start by saying that I love Harvest. It has saved me a ton of time in billing for projects and…
Dropping future support for IE6
Checking the stats for spigotdesign.com today revealed that less than 10% of the visitors here are using Internet Explorer 6. This is great news!…
New Spigot Design logo unveiled
While not a new logo per se, we’re proud to announce a cleaner, smoother version of our logo. The old version was drawn in…
Better email communication: Part II
Tame the multi-pointed beast Note: Part 2 in a series on better email communication. Write better, get better results. Here’s Part I. That beast…
Better email communication: Part I
Imagine if Moses had come down from that mountain not with two huge stone tablets with 10 commandments for the people to follow, but…
First Hand: How to begin a blog
When starting a section on your site that you intend to update on a frequent basis, its a good idea to ask yourself a…