Ways of working: Dropbox

 I have used Dropbox for some time as a way of sharing files between my desktop, laptop, and Android phone, and originally heard about it as part of a project I was working on.  Here is an article that tells why it is valuable as a project management tool.  You could do the same thing with Google Docs and similar tools.

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/dropbox-will-simplify-your-life/

Drupal 7 audio/video player for HTML5 with Flash fallback

I needed to add audio to a site to play some mp3 files.  The site is Drupal7, so I decided to check out how to set this up for HTML5 and Flash playback.

I found the Drupal7 module jplayer, which seemed the answer to this need.  I downloaded and enabled it.  I also had to get the jplayer jQuery code from jplayer.org and put it in sites/all/libraries.

Maintaining freshness in content of a web site

When you have a web site, visitors will come back if you give them a reason to do so.  If you maintain content on the site that is interesting to you, then the visitors will probably not be the ones that are good for your business, but are your competitors.  You need to have content that is attractive to your intended visitors.

Post-Amazon to Barnes & Noble

California recently passed a law requiring merchants with a presence in CA to collect sales tax.  Amazon's affliliates are deemed a presence, so the battle has begun.  Amazon cancelled all CA affiliate contracts, so my Amazon search block in the left margin was worthless to me. 

Amazon negotiated a bill with California that will require them to start collecting sales tax in October, 2012.  That will cost California about $200 million.

Communicating effectively

We have picked up several new clients lately who were looking for a designer/developer who would do several things for them:

Welcome

Welcome to Dornbush Web Design. We design and develop web sites.  That sounds simple, doesn't it?  We have spent years learning how to best develop sites.  Our focus is on providing a site that is as easy and inexpensive as possible to develop and maintain, while providing robust capability. 

What kinds of sites do we support?

Web sites today need to be interactive, to support online stores and communities and social networking, to provide rich content to site visitors, to keep visitors coming back, to rank high on search engines like Google, to be fun.

How do we do this? 

We start with your business or organization.  We help clarify your organization mission, goals, brand.  We help you define what you want in a web site: your audience, your goals.

You can't really do a web site just because you think you need or want a web site.  You need to understand what you want to accomplish with your web site.

Once we have a handle on that, we can proceed to define the contents and functions you want in your web site.  Every site is different, just like every business or organization is different, but there are some common things that most sites have.

A good starting place is

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