Archive for the ‘Web Sites’ Category

What I’d Change About 99 Designs

I recently ran a logo design contest on 99 Designs. It was my second contest overall. The first one I did about 2 1/2 years ago was such a success, that it seemed a no-brainer. This recent contest turned out to be a flop, despite paying twice as much this go around. I love the [...]

December 20, 2011 · Dustin · 2 Comments
Posted in: Web Sites

Audio Books!

Commuting is a drag. There was a point in time that I had a 5 minute commute to work, then I decided to move and my company said I could just work from home. When it came time to switch jobs my walk down the stairs turned into a 45 minute (one-way) commute – and [...]

November 17, 2011 · Dustin · 5 Comments
Posted in: Books, Electronics, Finance, Technology, Web Sites

Why The Cash Envelope System Didn’t Work for Us

Now let me preface this by saying I am a huge fan of Dave Ramsey and I see the wisdom in all of his teachings. Now that said, I readily admit I don’t follow everything he says. One area in which I don’t follow along is with the cash envelope budget system. I think the [...]

October 20, 2009 · Dustin · 37 Comments
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Webfaction Review

I was looking at my web stats and noticed I was getting a lot of traffic to my limited review of Webfaction. To recap, I tried out there account then decided to cancel, and they were prompt and friendly at delivering a refund. Since that time, I have set up two Webfaction accounts. When I [...]

May 15, 2009 · Dustin · 65 Comments
Tags: , , , , ,  · Posted in: Programming & Internet, Web Sites

Webfaction Limited Review

UPDATE: Since writing this review, I have set up two accounts with Webfaction. Check out my latest review. I’ve seen a lot of recommendations for Webfaction for new Django developers who want an easy to use hosting solution. As you can see from previous posts that I have a VPS that I’ve set up Django [...]

October 29, 2008 · Dustin · 22 Comments
Tags:  · Posted in: Programming & Internet, Technology, Web Sites

Clicky Is So Much Easier!

I wrote a post about how to hack Google Analytics to show the full path on referrer URL. Honestly, its a pain in the butt at best. I went digging around the net and came across a new stat tool that shows the full URL. It’s called Clicky and I have to say, it is [...]

March 9, 2007 · Dustin · Comments Closed
Posted in: Programming & Internet, Web Sites

What do Mormons, PDAs, & DVDs Have in Common?

I was looking at some web statistics this morning and I noticed that I had quite a few hits on my DVD site coming from a forum at LDS Mingle. I was intrigued (mostly because I’m LDS) so I signed up temporarily to see what the talk was about. A member there suggested visiting DVD [...]

March 5, 2007 · Dustin · Comments Closed
Posted in: LDS, Movies, Web Sites

Gmail Delete Shortcut Key

I love Gmail, but I find it rather annoying that they feel you never need to delete an email. It took them about 2 years to add the delete button. I don’t know why they didn’t add a shortcut key with it. Certainly, they must have had thousands of requests for it already.Well, I’m happy [...]

February 28, 2007 · Dustin · One Comment
Posted in: Programming & Internet, Web Sites

Local Business on the Net

There are lots of local business on the Internet. I think every business should have a home page. It’s basically like have a really cheap glorified yellow page listing – but so much more. You can share everything about your business and even automate some of your business processes. There was one occasion where we [...]

January 18, 2007 · Dustin · Comments Closed
Posted in: Web Sites

Web 2.0, or Star Wars Character?

I guess I just don’t keep up enough. I only scored a 28 here: http://www.cerado.com/web20quiz.htm Now I supposed after the popularity of this quiz sets in, all Star Wars characters will eventually become web 2.0 sites

January 9, 2007 · Dustin · 2 Comments
Posted in: Humor, Web Sites