July 2011
2 posts
Taking Advantage of Google Docs
I have had some great experiences with Google docs over the last few days. Those experiences lie in three categories:
The Document Table of Contents functionality
Drawing Tools
Document Templates
I have been using Google documents forever…since the Writely days. Since then Google has been working hard to continuously improve these products. I really dig the fact that I can always come...
A nice guide (especially for clients) for the 8...
http://bit.ly/n31QFb
June 2011
1 post
The world's simplest CMS →
In a single page you can manage infinitely deep heirarchy of content with almost no background in working with CMS tools.
May 2011
2 posts
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Adobe's Renewed Push Toward Screen Independence
The headline on my email from Adobe today reads “Build for multiple mobile platforms using a common code base.” (http://www.adobe.com/products/flash-builder.html)
Since the National Association of Broadcasters conference where Adobe announced the launch of Creative Suite 5.5, I have been very excited about some of the new integration updates to their products. On the Flash Builder...
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Using Flash swfObject Library and Layering Content
I recently was presented with the challenge of integrating some Adobe Flash-based content into a design that required static imagery and other HTML content to show visible ABOVE that content. Whether it is because I didn’t use the appropriate search terms or this topic has started to become a bit stale, I found very little help from my web searches with Google.
I was able to piece together...
February 2011
3 posts
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Creating a Simple User Log with ColdFusion
I needed a quick and dirty way to log users to a page on one of my sites. It was easy enough to do with Adobe ColdFusion, and I am sure this can be modified and done just as easily in other languages.
STEP 1: Create an empty text file Called userlog.txt This file would be best located in a secure (non-web accessible) directory, but for simplicity I am placing it the same directory as the page...
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Web Site Review - Using Tag-Cloud-Style Navigation
After a friend of mine recently shared an interesting web site with me that used tag-cloud concepts for navigation, it gave me a good opportunity to write my next post. The site I am reviewing is the School of Informatics and Computing: Indiana University Bloomington
If you are viewing the site (hopefully, in a new browser window) you will notice on the left panel labeled ‘Navigate’...
December 2010
2 posts
Is anyone going to actually use your web site?
A programmers guide to web site planning: PART II
The next topic I want to talk about in this series deals with user analysis or persona development. (View part I of the series Why is user experience design important? here.) Even more than planning out how the user interaction happens on a new application or web site, you must define who is using your new tool and what they are going to want to...
SPAM Is Good, Or CAPTCHA Stinks!
For the last four, or five, years I have been called on many, many times to add CAPTCHA to forms. For those of you who don’t know, CAPTCHA is the image graphic with letters that are obscured so that a machine can’t submit your form. This is a great move if your form is for purchasing something, or logging in, or creating an account. The problem is that this clever little widget is...
November 2010
5 posts
1 tag
Giving Thanks To All of Our Clients For a Great...
This holiday season we wanted to look back at our client list and send a thank you to all of the the companies we did work for over the past year. It has been a great year and we look forward to continuing to work with you long into the future.
THANK YOU!
Fusion Developers
Cybatrol, Inc. - view site
ServiceFirst Solutions - view site
FDIS Denver - view site
Wag Hotels - view site
Atlas...
fusiondevs asked: What can FD do in the Restaurant industry? We have locations accross the country and need assistance setting up our mapping services.
CF Location: Pagination Using MSSQL and Coldfusion... →
cflocation:
Pagination is such a common feature across the web these days. Anytime you visit a site with much content at all you will encounter it. If you are unfamiliar with pagination a good example site that uses pagination is digg.com. When you visit digg.com, scroll down to the bottom of the page and…
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Get Integrated.
There are all kinds of services out there for integrating your content/services with the cloud. If you have a need for managing data, communicating with your customers, and gaining new leads - consider moving into the cloud. One way to define cloud computing is simply the use of existing public systems to manage the data you need to manage. “Cloud computing users avoid capital expenditure...
Why is User Experience Design Important?
A programmers guide to web site planning: PART I
When I start a project I always start with a programming road map. The same approach should be taken on the design and planning steps too. This planning process is generally called user experience (UX) design. The practice of UX is growing quickly as a premium agency service and often differentiates successful projects from those that fail.
To...
October 2010
2 posts
Nice Post About Building a Relationship with Your... →
Why I NEVER use computed values in a database
Whenever designing a database, it is critical to keep a few things in mind. How you start your database design can make, or break, the performance, consistency, and reliability of your system. One of the more often made mistakes is that of designing computed fields into your database. Computed fields are those that are stored values that depend on the values in other tables or columns of the...