I recently participated in Startup Weekend Corvallis and I thought I would share my experience and offer a few suggestions about how it might be improved for next time.Thoughts:I generally enjoyed the…
Ning is a platform used to create custom online networks for anything. There are over 850,000 NING networks (including www.WillametteInnovators.com) with over 3000 new ones created each day.Lets take…
Tonight I'm presenting "jQuery and ASP.NET" at the Eugene Area .NET Users Group November Meeting.I've been having lots of fun developing with jQuery with or without .Net. My first slide:What is…
In honor of Windows 7 launch day and my Umbraco level 2 training session in Seattle with Paul Sterling of Motus Connect, I downloaded a few cool Umbraco desktop wallpapers and made an Umbraco…
Umbraco CMS LogoIf you have ever used the PayPal "Add to Cart" generated buttons, you know how convenient they are. If your site has only few products, then managing these is fairly simple - not…
I've found that building a library of graphic resources such as textures, patterns, brushes, icons and vector artwork has been valuable to creating quality web design in a short time. You never really…
John Bergquist, a fellow social media professional for whom I have a high professional and personal regard recently published a blog post suggesting that the title of "social media expert" is…
Corvallis on Google CaffeineIf you haven't heard, Google has been working on a the next generation of their web search dubbed Google Caffeine. For the past month web professionals have been trying to…
I've been using Flickr for about 6-7 years now for my blog and personally and I love it. It is the YouTube of photos. Tons of people use it and what make it really useful are all of the social media…
Using brushes in Photoshop is a great way to quickly breathe life into any design project. Sometimes it's just not time effective to create your own, however, so building up your brushes library from…
