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Whether you are creating a new company website or starting a new web2.0 venture, you will need a plan of action to develop a successful website. Staying organized makes the website development process go smoothly and helps your team stay on track without going off on a tangent worrying about minute details. Planning also helps prepare for unexpected road blocks that could bring things to a halt if not foreseen. These processes have helped me over the years and I hope they help you too. Here are the six steps to planning and executing a successful website:   Planning - Forming an Idea and Setting...

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We programmers all get it. Staring at the computer screen hoping for the energetic icon at the bottom of the screen to start writing your application for you. What do you do to break out of the funk? 1. Get out of the [home] office. Take a break. Spend some time outside. You may find some new energy from the warm sun, if it’s out. 2. Drink some coffee, tea, water, Mountain Dew, motor oil…whatever gets you to wake up!! 3. If you have a laptop, go work somewhere else besides your normal place (outside, the coffee shop, library). Switch things up a little. 4. Go work out. If you haven’t...

UnSpun is a cool new place to make lists. For example, make a list of political candidates and people can vote them up or down. The community decides the priority/importance/popularity of the items in the list. One of the most popular lists right now is your “Favorite Alcoholic Beverage.” You can vote up or down certain drinks, such as Margaritas, Merlot, Gin and Tonic, Vodka, etc.

When I went away to college I was only 100 miles away from my hometown, yet I seemed detached from what was happening in the world. I didn’t know what the cool songs on the radio were anymore; I didn’t know the lingo that my younger sister was talking (I felt like the parent in the text messaging commercial with the girl that talks to her BFF jill all the time). I fell behind in my area of expertise: web design! One day I received a call from a friend who wanted to partner up in a new classifieds website he was starting. He asked me what my opinion was on Ruby on Rails, Ajax and Web...

Welcome to my first blog! After realizing that I spend a good amount of each day researching weblogs such as 9Rules (my favorite), I decided to start my own blog and share my research with everyone. I can start by providing links I found useful today. WordPress - www.wordpress.com 9Rules - 9rules.com P.S. Don’t try to use Safari 3 with WordPress 2.2!!