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IdeaJam Provides Great Support and Customization

Mike Badgley — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:22:08 +0000

This morning I had conference call with our client and an IdeaJam rep, Bruce Elgort, to discuss the custom HTML/CSS skin I had created for the application. Although I had some reservations about the product before going into this call, (…)

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Go Daddy comes through with great customer support

Mike Badgley — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:03:42 +0000

I’ve been hosting a number of Web sites (including this blog) on Go Daddy for the past few years and have never had a problem with their service (shared hosting). Until now. Lately, I’ve noticed that all my sites on (…)

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The woes of Lotus Notes’ HTML email support

Mike Badgley — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:01:35 +0000

Yesterday, I had the “pleasure” of working on a HTML email template that was going to be sent from a Lotus Notes client to Lotus Notes clients. If you have had any experience with this dreaded beast, than you know (…)

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The problem with Web sites not being friendly to my printer

Mike Badgley — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:20:48 +0000

On an almost daily basis, there are web articles I come across that contain great tips or something I didn’t know that I’d like to read more on. Given the fact that I usually don’t have the time at that (…)

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The “Web” disease of falling behind

Mike Badgley — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:16:34 +0000

The thought occurred to me this morning, as I did my daily routine of reading through my long list of RSS feeds, that I was in danger of falling behind and becoming out of touch with the current trends and (…)

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To check, or not to check?

Mike Badgley — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:00:20 +0000

I’m on vacation this week – great opportunity to relax and rewind from the stress and grind of life. However, the age old (?) question that pops up while one is on vacation needs to be dealt with: Do I (…)

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The importance of supporting IE6

Mike Badgley — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:19:40 +0000

What appears to a growing trend is the moving away from IE6 to support more modern browsers only. It seems to make sense – after all, the browser is about eight years old. I mean, how many of us have (…)

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“If I had a million dollars … I wouldn’t buy Adobe Fireworks CS4”

Mike Badgley — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:24:56 +0000

When it comes to Photoshop, I admit, I’m a complete fool. I know the absolute bare minimum – just enough to get by. I can take a sweet design by one of our talented creative guys here at iStudio and (…)

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