Spring 2011

May30

Some e-commerce Tips

Brent Laminack May 30, 2011

I'm going to let the cat of the bag here. One of my favorite websites for information on e-commerce is PracticalEcommerce.com. It consistently has relevant, practical articles and tips. Here's an example...

May18

Are you marketing via e-mail like a rookie?

Beth Snider May 18, 2011

We help numerous organizations implement e-mail marketing packages like MailChimp and Constant Contact. We even help some develop and maintain campaigns. E-mail marketing used to be a load and fire kind of activity, but things have changed over the years from a legal and technical standpoint. So how do you keep up?

Apr16

Backing Up on Square Wheels

Brent Laminack April 16, 2011

One of the things we try hard to do is not reinvent the wheel. That's why we use Joomla! instead of writing our own Content Management System, why we search hard for off-the-shelf components before we write our own. For our servers, we rent from a large, reputable company and use one of the three industry-standard control panels. This is to give our customers the best value for their money by not reinventing wheels and for security, in case we lose a team member as standard skills are much easier to replace. There's one exception to our 'never reinvent the wheel' rule...

Apr07

Lots of Software Updates

Brent Laminack April 07, 2011

It seems like this past week all I've been doing is software updates. Yesterday Joomla 1.5.23 was released. It fixed about a dozen bugs, including one low-impact security hole. Speaking of security, Virtuemart released 1.1.8 which fixes a security issue as well. I've got the majority of those upgrades completed. I've also been updating Community Builder to the current 1.4 release. If your site uses sh404sef, I've been updating that as well.

Mar14

What is GoToMeeting?

Beth Snider March 14, 2011

Although many of you may have participated in a GoToMeeting, some have been missing out on this great "remote" conferencing tool. It's hard not to hear about it these days, as I understand they are now advertising on national TV. With gas at a premium and rising, here's to becoming an early adopter!

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Hi Brent,

I was in one of your HTML/CSS classes at Emory. IE9 rolled out as promised, and I have already upgraded to it. It has a few...

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