Interesting way to celebrate advent: “24 ways to impress your friends”:http://24ways.org/
Day 1, “Easy Ajax with Prototype” is a great article, though I don’t think the overall them of impressing your friends fits closely with the Christmas season.
Looking forward to the next 23 articles….
This one feels good — a lean, clean “website”:http://photosbykat.net/ for a talented photographer and artist who is a friend of mine.
Gotta love it when the client is happy.
I’m not usually a fan of the About.com sites. None of them, for a variety of reasons.
However, I do still subscribe to “About Web Design,” and sometimes I actually look at one of the posts. To my pleasant surprise, she recently wrote two in a row that are worth reading:
1. “Why Do Web Developers Ignore Their Own Sites?”:http://webdesign.about.com/od/jobs/a/aa053104.htm
Ouch. This one hits home, in terms of working on websites for others, and neglecting my own.
bq. It’s funny to me how some of the most boring and ugly sites on the Internet are for Web designers.
By the way, just ignore this part: “My Criteria for Judging a High Quality Site”
2. “Web Design Businesses – Start with a Business Plan”:http://webdesign.about.com/od/jobs/a/aa052404.htm
Some good points from the post:
* If you treat your business seriously, so will your clients.
* What is a Business Plan
* Why You Need a Business Plan
* Sit Down and Do It Now
Amen!
An interesting item from “*Church Marketing Sucks*”:http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/ on November 11:
“National Outreach Convention 2005”:http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/archives/2005/11/national_outrea.html by Greg Atkinson.
He mentioned a speaker at the convention that caught my attention:
“*They Like Jesus, Not the Church*” by Dan Kimball (Founding Pastor of Vintage Faith Church in Santa Cruz, California)
The concept is that people are open, but it is organized religion is what turns people off.
Best quote:
bq. “We must become listeners of people and watchers of culture.”
I would’ve enjoyed seeing that one.
