BrainFuel

I thought this was a superb gallery: Unguarded Moments: Photographs of President Reagan.

Check out the rest of the Musarium web site, it’s fantastic.

Don’t miss the Pete Souza Photography collection.

wordPhoto.org needs a sponsor.

Imagine taking this photo! I saw it on Yahoo News. Incredible.

This is probably the most random site I’ve commented about in quite a while, and yeah that’s some serious pun work going on there. I am posting the Random House web site which really pops with content. I haven’t seen a web site with this much copy on it in months. I liked the layout and the way it functions nontheless. Quite a good job.

Can anyone recommend a really good CMS built using .NET?

Don recently spent a few hours searching for a blogging software app built in .NET and couldn’t find anything. We wanted to find something like WordPress, only built in .NET. Anyone?

I just installed about 10 extensions in FireFox. I found some neat ones like the weather rank and others. Here’s yet another PageRank tool I found that puts the PR and the Alexa rank in your status bar.

The other cool FireFox extension is FoxyTunes which allows you to control your music player from within the browser. I have mine set to control iTunes and you can do just about everything with it.

The last cool extension I have to tell you about is called ColorZilla Color Picker. It’s basically a copy tool that can pick a color off a page in your browser and you can paste it into wherever you want.

Anyone want to talk shop?

There are so many web design and development firms nowadays and probably just as many approaches to client support and maintenance. How do you support your clients?

Do you handle client web site changes?

Do you update sites for clients on a regular basis?

What tips, tricks, and processes do you use to make your life easier as you balance both new projects and web site maintenance for your clients? As our firm grows and we increase the number of clients, sometimes we’re swamped with client requests creating a backlog of work sometimes weeks long. More often than not our clients want to be at the front of the line and balancing the requests and urgency of chnages becomes a hurdle.

So I’m curious to find out how people are dealing with similar situations. Changes/Updates to sites represents a significant value to our business and impacts our revenue in amazing ways. So we’re glad to have the work. But we often find the balance and urgency is a problem and affects our other project schedules.