Archer Creative | Multi-Media Marketers and Storytellers located in Birmingham, Alabama
Multi-Media Marketers and Storytellers located in Birmingham, Alabama
I recently had a discussion with a fellow web designer about images used on a client’s site. Her client contacted her after receiving a $1400 invoice from the image’s license holder, for unauthorized use of an image. He thought that because he had found the image on Google Images that it was free for him [...]
Recycling old blog posts is a great way to come up with new posts. But what if you want to explore something else. Or you’ve reworked all of your old posts? Don’t fret – you’ve still got plenty of options. Here are some of my favorite idea-joggers for those times when I’m, once again, staring [...]
When I started blogging, I had a million-and-one blog posts swirling around in my head at any given time. It seemed the ideas would never dry up. Fast-forward 4 years, and I found myself struggling to compose one good one a week. It may have been caused by the (false) notion that everything under the [...]
The countdown is on, and SOPA is expected to pass through the Senate on January 24th. (*UPDATE 1/19/2012 : Key Supporters of the bill have backed down after Wednesday’s protest) Tomorrow, January 18th, 2012, many of the most popular sites on the internet will be taking part in a ‘blackout’ of their sites to protest [...]
Next weekend, January 14th and 15th, make plans to attend WordCamp Birmingham (nicknamed “WPY’all”). The speaker and sessions lineup has been finalized and, WOW -I’m excited about going! I had already planned on attending, but I am also going to be speaking. My topic is Blogging and Dating: Not so Different. What your business or [...]
Twitter rolled out a new design and interface yesterday, and I have to admit: I really like it. It’s cleaner and seems more organized and well thought-out. I’ve been playing around with it some, and thought about writing up a brief ‘what’s new’/how-to, but there have already been several written. So why reinvent water… Some [...]
I recently had the pleasure of working with Cara, owner of Health, Home and Happiness on a redesign of her site. She was already set up on WordPress, but wanted a new look, along with some new functions to help organize and showcase her articles and recent posts, as well as her newsletter and ebooks. [...]
One complaint I often hear from potential clients is that their sites are slow to load. No one wants their site to be “that site”; you know, the one that crashes your browser or takes so long for anything to show on your screen, that you just move on to something else. Bottom line: Viewers [...]
On July 4th, WordPress released their latest version: 3.2 (named “Gershwin“, in honor of the composer). Unless there is a security upgrade along with it, I usually wait a day or so to upgrade all of my sites, just to make sure nothing “breaks” because of it. We’ve all heard horror stories and rants on [...]
Too often we hear someone in business say that if you can’t do something correctly/properly/”right”, it’s worse than not doing it all. Of course, it’s always said with good intentions (right?), but is that true? Is it really better to not do something, than to do it in a way that (some… many… few) others [...]
