Using still photographs I took, along with my own voiceover, I essentially created a slideshow that outlines my aesthetic and what turns me on in terms of design. I love my job, but my favorite part of the gig is actually designing [which, as any web designer will tell you, is not always the biggest slice of the project pie...].
“I’ve invested a whole ten minutes on this! How come I’m not an expert yet??!!”
If you’re anything like me, you want to be an expert on whatever is in front of you with as little time and effort as possible – whether it’s with a digital camera, a laptop, a mobile device or a website. After investing five or ten whole minutes on learning something new, I’ll get frustrated that I’m not an automatic expert, or at least reasonably proficient. When I was in school, we had a word for this: lazy. But I prefer the adult world term: busy. View Full Article »
“Can I make an mp3 version of my CD?”
Absolutely.
CDs and AIFF files
The digital files on an audio CD (like the Streisand album you rushed out to get last week) are in an industry-standard digital format called aiff (audio interchange file format). The aiff is the leading digital audio format used by professional audio and video applications, and it is the purest, uncompressed format of digital audio, offering the best sound quality. View Full Article »
“I couldn’t open the Word document you attached. Can you send it in another format?”
We get lots of emails with attachments in a variety of formats. Text documents are one of the most common attachments. Unfortunately, not all text documents are alike. A Word document emailed to a recipient who does not use Word – or even your version of Word – will not format correctly. Any document that contains a font that a recipient might not have will not format correctly, either. View Full Article »
“I’m already doing MySpace. I don’t need Facebook or Twitter.”
The Facts
According to current web statistics, there are twice as many people worldwide on Facebook as there are on MySpace. MySpace has a slight edge in the sense that it was the first venue for the social network party, but the concept was vastly improved when Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook in 2004 at Harvard. View Full Article »
“I need to change the address of my manager in my CONTACT page. His address is www.managername@aol.com.”
The quote above is an excerpt from an e-mail I received from a client about changing some information on the CONTACT page of the website. If you look at the quote carefully, you can see why I was confused as to whether the client meant a URL (web address) or an e-mail address.
For this week’s tip, I’m combining a glossary of commonly used internet and web jargon from NetLingo.com, GetNetWise (http://www.getnetwise.org), and my own input. View Full Article »
“I went to see the changes you made on my website, but I don’t see them. The site looks the same as before.”
It happens all the time. I’ll do an update to a website, and clients will email me to say that they cannot see the changes. Here’s the story… View Full Article »
“How do I create an iMix?”
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“I tried to email you an attachment and it bounced back… So I’m just going to put it on a disk and mail it to you.”
