The Notebook · Oct 2006 – Feb 2007
The Notebook
The studio's blog, as it called it: launches, small-business advice, web-standards news and the odd prediction. Every surviving post is here, quoted in full, with notes from 2026 in the margin.
February 2007
- Upstate Pet Connect is live!We have now launched our brand new project, Upstate Pet Connect. UPC is a site that matches loving pet owners with loving pets in need of a great…
- JavaScript Video Tutorial at Yahoo!Douglas Crockford from Yahoo! has posted his first of four videos detailing the JavaScript programming language. This first video is a great look…
- Firebug 1.0 overview videoJust in case you have not heard of it yet, Firebug1 is the coolest little free app out there right now! It is a plugin extension for the Firefox…
January 2007
- Project Launch: B&L Mechanical, Inc.DigitalRealm Media is pleased to announce that we have officially launched the brand new B&L Mechanical, Inc. website. The website can be viewed at…
- New Mind Petals article now availableMy latest Mind Petals article, titled What a Client Wants to Hear1, is now posted at Mind Petals.
- MooTools 1.0 PrimerAaron Newton has created and written a new MooTools primer based on the upcoming 1.0 release of MooTools. MooTools1 is a JavaScript framework,…
- Another excellent resource listI stumbled across the DEVLISTING1 a few days ago while I was searching for some stuff online and I gotta say, this is a great resource!
- Project update: Upstate Pet ConnectWe were recently contacted about the status of Upstate Pet Connect, so I wanted to give a brief update of where we are at with the project.
- No business is too small for the webI often hear the statement “We are too small to have a website” or “A website would really not benefit us”. Oh really? I strongly beg to differ with…
- New "Living The Dream" article now at Mind PetalsThe second article of our Living The Dream: series is now posted at Mind Petals. You can check it out in full here1.
- DigitalRealm Media joins the Mind Petals networkI am very excited to announce that DigitalRealm Media has joined up with the Mind Petals network as a contributing author of business and media…
- Great Mac apps for free!If you are looking for a few cool little apps for your Mac, head on over to iSlayer1.
- Full feeds vs. Partial feedsDevlounge has posted an awesome article1 debating the choice to use full feeds on your site or partial feeds on your site. This is a really good read…
- Greenville is getting "Artsy"If you live in the Greenville area of South Carolina and you have been keeping an eye on things lately, you will have certainly noticed the slew of…
- A few small site tweaksYou may notice a few small tweaks to this site if you visit here regularly. We have been making some small changes to get the layout more to our…
- Want to have a Mint?So, I have been using Mint1 for a few days now and I am hooked! If you are not aware of what Mint is, let me explain….
- sIFR 3 Beta is now availablesIFR is now in a version 3 beta release. The popular text replacement tool looks as though it has acquired quite a few nice little enhancements.
- Will older browsers ever stop getting support?Is there ever going to be a time when people stop supporting older web browsers? I mean seriously, people that are still using any browser older than…
- The DRM 2007 outlookWell, 2007 is officially here and we are looking forward to it. We launched our new site this morning and things are going great so far. We still…
- Speculation from Sitepoint makes me wonderA recent blog post1 on Sitepoint got me thinking, “Just what might be the big thing in 2007?”.
December 2006
- Finishing Up Projects for 2006As 2007 approaches, we are working hard to complete all of the projects we have going on. We are hoping to be ready for a prosperous New Year, with a…
November 2006
- Why being busy is good!Wow, the last few weeks have been super busy for us here at DRM and we are loving it. We are working on some great projects right now and we have a…
September 2006
- Keep your customers informedWhen you run a business, it is very important for you to keep your customers informed of what is going on with your business. Customers often want to…
- Gaining Momentum Through Positive AdvertisingOn any given day, the average person encounters somewhere between 1,600 and 2,000 advertisements. Some are misleading, and some are just what they…
- Where do we go from here?Heading into our sixth month of swimming with the sharks in the website design ocean, it has become very clear to me that I should keep close to the…
Also
The sidebar's blogroll, with what became of each site, is on the reading list. And the one piece written for this edition: What to put behind a small business site.