Some women like shoe shopping, my weakness (among many) is cool icons, shiny buttons and slick graphics that are so characteristic of the new and trendy web 2.0 styles. Alas! I am no designer. There is no design bone in me at all. Which is why I always jump with glee when I find cool [...]

Usually, I’m more protective over the originals than the PDF version because you can make a PDF version any time but not the DOC. Despite my best efforts, I have lost the original DOC before and it’s devastating especially when it’s a pretty large book or report. If you have the PDF then you may [...]

WordPress… what can I say. I love you? Yes, it’s a great publishing platform that I sometimes wish I could run my whole business on it. Thankfully, there are always talented developers who think along the same lines. Sadly, there aren’t that many plugins for business applications and I’m not talking about just shopping carts [...]

We’ve both read David Allen’s Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. We like to find ways to be more organized and efficient. Tools for improving our productivity intrigue us.
He has a cult-like following. His raving fans love his system. The essence of the system is to “do it, delegate it or defer it.”
The [...]

Sparkplugging is starting a new tradition called ‘Spark an Idea Thursday’. Each week we’ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers. We invite you to grab our image and carry the tradition through to your own blog! If you do, please link back to this post so we know [...]

What’s the best way to find and contact key business professionals in a particular company or industry? Well, I guess you can go the LinkedIn route and see if any of your contacts would introduce you to them. Or, you could try Jigsaw.
Jigsaw is at heart, a business directory. It lists key people in different [...]

Alright, le’ts get straight to the point here, I know you all are waiting Here are the results of the video editor software giveaway.
Arika – Honestech Video Editor 8.0
Tatiana – Honestech Easy Video Editor 3.0
Congratulations! I’ll pass your information along. We’ll be in touch to for your mailing address. Thank you everyone for [...]

I remember a day when I was working ouside the home. I was at the the ad agency’s office, trying to find a web site I wanted to show them but can’t. My PDA didn’t have a bookmark sync application – if it did, it wouldn’t be much good because it didn’t have a web [...]

Then join me this Wednesday night, when Kelly McCausey – also another trusted WordPress designer – and I discuss all about being a WordPress Designer at the Hot Seminar Series.
If the tech stuff is not your cup of tea, when you get access to the Hot Seminar series, you also get to listen in or [...]

Two weeks ago, the mouse on one of my computers quit working. It is a USB mouse and I used a KVM switch – it’s a little gadget that allows me to share the monitor, keyboard and mouse with two or more computers. It wasn’t the switch – my keyboard still worked and both mouse, [...]