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New Wine

shumdesign — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:15:48 +0000

Check out the new wine.

Put your wordpress blog on a flash drive with xampp

shumdesign — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:36:39 +0000

Of all the good things we can do with a USB (Universal Serial Bus) flash drive, I think running a website is one of them. This is a perfect solution for web designers who need to cart along a whole bunch of designs to show potential clients.

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Running a website or blog on a USB flash drive – http://www.modernstreet.com

Great post about installing WordPress MU on your local machine

shumdesign — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:45:26 +0000

Andy Peatling of BuddyPress shows how to install WordPressMU and BuddyPress on your local machine. He shows how it is done on a Mac.

Drupal Education and E-learning from Packt Publishing

shumdesign — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:48:59 +0000

What I am reading now? Drupal Education and E-learning from Packt Publishing. This book is very detailed. I am working my way through it right now and able to implement my application step by step with the information from this book. My review will follow soon!!

Attending WordCamp Denver!

shumdesign — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:01:13 +0000

United for the Holidays

shumdesign — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:15:25 +0000

PricewaterhouseCoopers
donated their holiday office party to
United Way of the Bay Area

Join us for
United for the Holidays
a Special Gala benefitting Road to Recovery

Seven o’clock
Thursday the Eighteenth of December
LIVE! @ 888 Brannan
(formerly the Giftcenter Pavilion)
888 Brannan Street • San Francisco

Dining and Dancing
Black Tie Optional

100% of event proceeds benefit
United Way’s Road to Recovery campaign

For more information email Kelly Ryan
kryan@uwba.org

Social Bookmarking from Ma.gnolia.com

shumdesign — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:29:46 +0000

What is Social Bookmarking?

In social bookmarking, thousands of people keep their bookmark collections on a website instead of on just one computer. Doing so brings several big advantages.

Bookmarks Anywhere

Keeping your bookmarks on a website allows you to access your favorite websites from anywhere. Your bookmarks are available and always backed up no matter which computer you use.

Find Stuff Other People Like

And even better, you can see what other people have found and share bookmarks with your friends. Bookmarks can be kept private, but most are public and available for everyone to see. See who has the same interests as you!

Find the Best of Web through People, not Machines

In social bookmarking, you only find the bookmarks that other people think are worth keeping. Ma.gnolia ratings and tags instantly give you an idea of what people think of a bookmark, making your web searches more informed than ever. It’s like having a community of assistants help you find what you need, when you need it.

What is Tagging?

Tags are keywords given to bookmarks that act like labels for making them easy to find later. Instead of making a folder with a name and putting bookmarks into it, you give tags to bookmarks to describe the website they point to. Individual tags are separated by commas, so they can have spaces and special characters. Some tag examples are: food, Romeo & Juliet, best in show.

UCLA Marching Band White Rabbit Rehearsal

shumdesign — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:04:44 +0000

Web Design for ROI by Lance Loveday & Sandra Niehaus

shumdesign — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:14:59 +0000

Web Design for ROI by Lance Loveday & Sandra Niehaus

I had the opportunity to hear Lance Loveday speak at Web Design World in Seattle. I am very interested in learning how to present hard numbers which support the role of web design. Last December, I created an HTML email which linked to a branded microsite containing success stories and a quiet request for donations. The return that year was 40% above the previous year. I went back to study the campaign from the previous year and compared it to what we did in December of 2007. I had alot of data but did not know how to interpret it until I read this book. I learned from Lance how important it is to have branded landing pages, simple targeted navigation and limit choices for the website visitor (in our case, the donor). Now that I have the words and strategies to explain the success to upper managment, I can also see the areas of the campaign I can improve even more, such as redesigning our form on our donation page and targeting the metrics that truly matter. This book also provides information for understanding web analytics and how they tie into business objectives. The book is well organized and the color screenshots are helpful to visual learners. The best part is now I have business language to sell the importance of what I do that adds value to online campaigns, whereas before all I had was intuition and luck.

Expression Engine Book by Packt Publishing

shumdesign — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:09:42 +0000

Building Websites with ExpressionEngine 1.6

I have been looking at Content Management systems for the last year and love wordpress as a blogging platform and CMS. After reading blogs from other web designers who use WordPress for small sites, they mentioned using Expression Engine for larger, more complex projects. I became very interested in this platform and searched for a book to help me learn how to install it, administer and design for it. This book turned out to be the answer! The book is well organized with lots of screenshots, code examples, and sidenotes. The book is highly detailed with step by step instructions. It is targeted at web designers and marketing professionals so I felt that it gave me the right amount of information for the my level of experience. The book answered many questions that come to the surface such as what are the server requirements and how much space my site going will take up. The CSS presented was basic and enough to get me started to style the site with my company’s branding. The book covers the tasks necessary to back up my website and how to upgrade when the time comes. The last part of the book contains exercises that helped me dig in and actually test out the code. I highly recommend this book.

Building Websites with Expression Engine 1.6