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Fifteen bucks off

I got $15 bucks off of my Tae Kwon Do sparring gear yesterday.  That’s something, but you might wonder what that has to do with web design. Well, I’ll tell you.  It has a whole lot to do with it, and not just for web design but probably for your business too. I got $15 [...]

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When Washington Sales Tax and Online Businesses Collide

It is the time of year when annual filers must compile their sales tax data for submittal to the Washington State Department of Revenue. Back in the day, when Pam and I’s kids were small and could not yet talk back, we ran our own e-commerce site on the side selling baby slings. Things were [...]

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Why We Love “For Dummies”

Just before the holidays, we held a Getting Started with WordPress class in Snohomish. It was very well attended, more than a dozen eager participants – almost all of them wanting to use WordPress as part of their web strategy. Some wanted to be able to post articles to their website, some pictures, some events. [...]

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An iPad for the Lab

Is the technology you’re using making things easier or worse? I’m writing this on a brand new iPad while I’m sitting comfortably on the sofa in the designgeneers! lab. It’s a wonderful, liberating way to connect to the online world, and it’s proven so much easier to show clients their web designs in face-to-face meetings, [...]

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Use Barcodes to Connect Your Paper Flyers to Your Website

OK, I’m totally geeking out on this. We have a calendar here on the lab wall that Jess Robinson of Lithtex NW was handing out at a recent networking event. It has a little 2D barcode in the lower right corner, which I never really noticed until today. So, with my new smartphone, I had [...]

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