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Cheap Web Companies are Ruining the Web
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 | Clients, Computers, Design, Feedback, Improving Code, Life, Programming, Ranting, Usability, Venting, Web Development, Websites | 1 Comment
This is completely opinion and I didn’t do any research but I’m probably right in most cases. This is really me venting because I’ve been having more than enough run-ins with external companies who under-price our clients for “services” such as consulting or even developing systems that they can’t afford for us to do. › Continue reading
DotNetNuke and Search Usability
Sunday, November 18th, 2007 | DotNetNuke, Improving Code, Programming, Search Engines, Search Modules, Search Results, Usability, Web Development, Websites | No Comments
DotNetNuke recently added what they call a “feature” to their implementation of a search bar: the ability to search the web or search your web site.
This poses a couple problems:
- It can confuse users with unnecessary options
- It’s pretty meaningless.
CFD Smile Goes Live!
Monday, November 12th, 2007 | CSS, Clients, Code, Custom Development, Design, Portfolio, Portfolio - Freelance, Programming, Projects, SEO, Semantic XHTML, Skinning, Web Development, Websites, Work Stuff, XHTML | No Comments
Well, my first side project has finally gone live! After months of hard work, I now unveil www.cfdsmile.com to you. We wanted to bring out the services right up front for best emphasis, and lots of heavy stock photo usage for high impact.
We also worked with a professional web content writer to make the content more effective and search-engine optimized. This, coupled with semantic HTML, CSS, and google web master tools, will help this site rank high in keywords for Texas Dental Services.
So, please visit the site if you get a chance, and enjoy!
Online Chat Support: Provide a Phone Number as well
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 | Customer Support, Online Chat, Usability, Web Development, Websites | No Comments
I’ve been working on a project for a client this week, trying to get their hosting account set up, and I have experienced a myriad of usability issues with their system. › Continue reading
Three Scripts I wrote for DotNetNuke Skins
Thursday, September 13th, 2007 | DotNetNuke, Open Source, Programming, Usability, Web Development, Websites, Work Stuff, asp.net, vb.net | 2 Comments
I’ve been in email communication with the new Skinning Team Lead at DotNetNuke. I’m really interested in joining the DotNetNuke skinning team. I bring a pretty unique contribution to the scene, and I’d like to share it in the most appropriate outlet. So I’m talking to Timo to see if I can be useful on his team.
Until then, I’m going to share some scripts I wrote for DotNetNuke skins, which I also sent Timo in email.
Driving Directions and the Web: A waste of time and space
Friday, August 10th, 2007 | Usability, Web Development, Websites, directins, directions, driving, google maps, mapquest, routes | No Comments
I’ve been doing a lot of content integration in the past couple years and I’ve noticed that almost every one of our clients loves to type out lengthy pages to give people directions to their location.
Login Usability: Am I in or out?
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 | CSS, Code, Design, Feedback, Improving Code, Javascript, Programming, Usability, Web Development, Websites | No Comments
UPDATE: After making this post, and refreshing the parallels forums page, I was presented with “Welcome, Joseph Sak” instead of a login prompt. So maybe I got it wrong, or they did, but this post still stands!
The Parallels Forums recently got some redesign and information restructure, which all looks good and is organized quite well. But they’ve missed a couple really easy issues with their login functionality.
City of Southfield voted Best Web Site of 2007 by MEDA
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 | Design, Praise, Projects, Teamwork, Web Development, Websites, Work Stuff | No Comments
From internal Artemis Email:
Just released, the Michigan Economic Development Association?s (MEDA) 2nd Annual Marketing Materials Competition has announced The City of Southfield web site as ?Best Web Site? for the population below 100,000 residents category.
Modifying DotNetNuke Search and Improving the Results
Saturday, July 14th, 2007 | Artemis Solutions Group, Custom Development, DotNetNuke, Improving Code, Open Source, SEO, Search Engines, Search Modules, Search Results, Stored Procedure Improvement, Usability, Web Development, Websites, Work Stuff | 4 Comments
Recently, I modified the Stored Procedure named “GetSearchResults” to improve the results pages in DotNetNuke web sites. Here is my explanation from the DNN forums.
YouTube just tells it like it is, that’s all
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 | Fun, Humor, Life, Websites | No Comments
I just got done customizing my YouTube Channel, preparing to tie it in with this site and my MySpace(do you say my MySpace, or just MySpace? Oh! Maybe My Space???).
Anyway, I noticed this little straight to the point harsh truth:
It’s true. :I C’mon, YouTube… just one? I’ve picked on YouTube before, and I guess this is my comeuppance.