The War on Disorganization is a Battle We Can Win!

CSS was created to reduce the complexity of a website’s code while providing the latitude to change it on the fly. All of this goes down the drain if you’re not organized. Looking back at some of the first sites I coded while developing my CSS Kung Fu, I realized it’s...

ReachFarther and Team Bear

ReachFarther made a donation to the Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation. We became involved with Team Bear while we were training for the Chicago Marathon, and raised money as part of our effort. Their wonderfully unique organization provides immediate...

Corporate Dashboards Were TPS Reports Once

A dashboard can be loosely defined as a centralized reporting system. More specifically, the most common definition found online resembles something like “an executive information system”. Back in my days as a Sales Analyst for ACNielsen, I consulted for Philip Morris...

Some Simple CSS Tricks

I started out building websites the old fashioned way, using tables. Every once in a while on a warm, clear spring day, I long for the days of the table based site. Then I have to wade through the markup of an old table based site, my vision goes blurry and a crushing...

A Beginners Guide to Search Engine Optimization

You’ve got a beautiful website and you’ve got a great business, so why don’t you show up in the Google rankings when people search for you? The answer to that question could fill up hundreds of books, and does actually. What I’m going to do in the paragraphs that...