News, updates, bloggish stuff, but mostly just selfies.
Three Important Expectations To Set In Web Design
First, a quick quiz. What is a custom designed website? A) A PRODUCT B) A SERVICE If you picked B, you’re on the money. There is a big discrepancy in the web and app design and development industry between what a lot of clients think they are buying and what you guys...
Random Thing of the Week
As BrainLeaf beta re-launches, we plot our next venture. This week we re-launched beta (huge sigh of relief). While we sent the email inviting everyone into the system, the Tangent Solutions New Business Team was busy at work putting together research and a prospectus...
What exactly are we doing here?
Time for another release! Time for some of that critical feedback and commentary that can be both vindicating and sometimes disappointing. I read a blog the other day about start-ups, funding, failure, dreams, and resilience; this a quote really stuck with me: "And I...
How to scope and price a web project #2
Last time we wrote about the basics & essentials in pricing and scoping projects. The real goal of that post was to provide a foundation so that we could get here. (If you haven’t yet read last week’s post, I encourage you to do so now and then come back to this...
Random thing of the week
This week was a lot of work again, but I did have time to go out and learn a new style of dance. I've been picking up Zouk. The picture above are my friends and Eddie and Cate teaching the class. I'm generally a swing dancer, but this is a fun style, and it's really...
How to scope and price a web project #1
This is the first of a several part series on the process of scoping a pricing web and app projects. Here we're just going over some of the basics and making sure we're all on the same page as far as definitions, general process, etc. before moving onto more...
Random Thing of the Week
The past few weeks have been full of work, and we haven't had that much time to post. But everyone has been working hard, and it is just the posting that hasn't been done. We've got a backlog of articles written that just need to be edited and posted, and bugs that...
Contracts 101 – The Overview
This is our first in a series on contracts. We've only got the first and the last ones written so far, so it may be a short series. But we're shooting for at least 4 entries on this one. Over the years, I’ve used every kind of contract there is. The way you set up...
Hello Atlanta Web Design Group!
On July 31st, we're sponsoring the Atlanta Web Design Group's first meeting in their "Business of Design" lecture and seminar series! We are so happy to be a part of the Atlanta community, and look forward to helping contribute to the impressive tech scene here. The...
Interview at SmartBrand Marketing
This week, the interview from SmartBrand Marketing got posted. Tom Libelt interviewed me about running a web design studio / agency to talk about the things I've learned in the last 12 years. We discussed everything from people and processes to lifestyle and...
