Being a small entrepreneur effectively providing “dot-com” types of services here in my small, rural town of 2,200 in Southwestern Minnesota can sometimes be a lonely venture. Not many people seem to truly understand what I do (or why I do it), and there aren’t many other people providing similar types of services…”exporting” their ideas [...]
Over the past year, I have previously written blog postings about two 32-bit .png optimization resources that are available for free download:
– pngquant
– pngnq
Today, I was fortunate enough to have someone named Pornel post a comment in my pngnq posting sharing information about an enhanced version of pngnq (and pngquant) that is now [...]
One of the electronic tools I have always liked, that is an integral part to our mapformation.com marketing efforts, is Zoomify. According to their web site: “Zoomify makes high-quality images zoom-and-pan for fast, interactive viewing on the web with just HTML, JPEGs, and Flash! Zoomify’s products meet the high-resolution imaging needs of creative professionals, image-centric [...]
I am probably a retail salesperson’s nightmare…as I dust-off and chisel open my wallet MAYBE 1-2 times per month (literally) to do some genuine shopping in-person at a store not ending in “dot-com.” I just personally find the process of window-shopping and spending the time/money it takes to physically visit stores [...]
I had an interesting day today! I spent most of the day attending my first Network Brown County Leadership Program meeting (a program offered by Bridging Brown County designed to “serve as an opportunity for individual community members to develop leadership skills and gather knowledge of the trends, challenges and issues that face our communities [...]
After doing a bit of web surfing tonight, I came across what I thought was an interesting and informative blog posting at Hex Blog, entitled “How to truly optimise flash web banners.” Their seven points checklist is very good…and I also thought that their reminder about generating size reports for one’s Flash output is very [...]
One of the interesting things I’ve been looking at in recent months is the creation and display of imagery within web pages using less-traditional methods. Anything that can convey visual information in ways that might result in an improved browsing or developer experience is something worth exploring further.
One really interesting concept I’ve looked at of [...]
A friend of mine sent me a funny link this afternoon to a “2008, The Year In Review” summary from the Uncle Jay Explains web site. I love the slogan used on that site: “Helping Small Minds Understand Big News.” That, along with the first bit of info found on the “About Uncle Jay” [...]
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