Last weekend I summoned up the energy to haul my boat up to Crescent City for a surf zone class led by Mike Zeppegno and John Day. Wearing a collection of owned and borrowed equipment to keep the bay at bay, I plunged into the waves and tried to keep my kayak from turning upside down. I was periodically successful. Fortunately, none of these photos show me ignominiously thrashing in the drink. I got...
Monthly Archives: April 2009
The Apocalypse Approacheth?
So the interwebs are all a-flutter with the Swine Flu possible pandemic. You haven’t heard? Then you are not connected!!! Are you not using Twitter? Don’t you have your Google Alerts set to swine flu as it happens? Seriously, the news cycle is now measured in nanoseconds and is unverified but replicated endlessly. Perhaps, this thing disease has legs. But it’s really hard to tell. Mashable, at least, has published a brief article that...
Humboldt Electric Vehicles
I went to the Bayside Grange breakfast this morning. If you haven’t been this is a fun community event with good eats! But today they had an exhibit of electric vehicles from the Humboldt Electric Vehicle Association. There was quite a line-up of vehicles from what looked like a completey fabricated hot rod (built for speed, not efficiencny) to conversions (a couple of VW bugs and other cars) to a recumbant pedal machine with...
Can You Get My Site on Page One of Google?
Sure. For what search term? I don’t do a lot of pure SEO/SEM work. Why? Because I ask too many questions that clients can’t or won’t answer: For what term(s) do you want to be highly ranked? Isn’t the real goal to make more sales or get qualified leads? What kind of traffic are you currently getting? What are your expectations? How much of that traffic comes from organic search results? Where else do...
Price Fixing in Web Development
I subscribe to a number of web development mailing lists, RSS feeds, Twitter streams, and, of course, talk to web development clients all the time. What I have learned, if that’s the term, is that pricing web development projects is way more art than science. There are apples and kumquats. There are formulas and there are “realms”.There are jobs and there are sales pitches. The bottom line, and that’s what we’re all concerned with,...
Sunday Kayak
Finally got out in my boat, today. A beutiful, sunny, calm day on Trinidad Bay. I was hoping for whales, but even though I paddled out to Pilot Rock and beyond, I didn’t see any. Others I talked to did. That’s OK. It was a great morning. Refreshing. These photos were taken with my crummy IPhone camera. But I was still getting email out there in the swells. No. I didn’t read any.
Eureka Chamber Launches at Last
It’s been a long road, but the new Eureka Chamber of Commerce web site finally launched this past week. This is a Drupal site with a nice design by our friends at Carson Park Design. We converted their Photoshop file to a Drupal template. We installed and configured numerous modules, ported content and imported (several times) their membership directory. We trained staff on managing the site and they are off and running. Most importantly,...
