File this under creepy sales follow-up: a couple of weeks ago, I received an email from a company that sells client/contact management software for public affairs firms. I’d participated in a couple of events for one of their competitors, and...
Who says you can’t mix beats and rhymes with clean design and standards-based site construction — check out the video below from Design Coding, the Poetic Prophet and SEO Rapper. Has to be the most concise presentation on good site...
I just went into a live online database via PHPMyAdmin and deleted 22,000 spam comments from a client’s WordPress blog all at once. That’s the first actual database operation I’ve ever done! Scary, even with a backup. Not that I...
Slate’s “Map the Candidates” has been around since the primaries, but it’s still a great example of a simple idea that’s nonetheless revealing — just a straightforward Google Maps interface that lets you see where...
Update: Okay, back in business. Oof, there is no joy at e.politics today — I just attempted to upgrade an innocent plugin, and BOOM! The site disappears. I’ve tracked down enough of the problem to restore the interior pages, but while...
Summer slow-time, where did you go — this August has been BUSY. The latest project? Assist Paula Brantner at Workplace Fairness as she rebrands and relaunches the organization’s blog, which she’s overseen in one way or another...
Very annoying result of a WordPress upgrade today — all of the Categories on the site got squirreled-up in the database upgrade process. Not sure yet whether I’ll try to restore the (overly long and unwieldy) existing list or take the...
Check out this smart little critter from Rock The Vote and Credo Mobile — it’s a customizable voter registration widget. When people click on the image below (which you can change to something matches your site), a DHTML window pops up...
Finally! After a few weeks of hair-pulling and the banging of heads on desks, the new TRCP.org is launched. We’re still adding some content, details and features, but the basic structure’s in place, and e.politics can finally break the...
Several conversations over the past few days have kept coming back to the same point: in the online world, things that seem cheap often aren’t, and things that seem expensive may actually be the cheaper alternative. For instance, Eric Rardin...