Website Uptime?
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 Posted in web development, website hosting | No Comments »We recently started using a service called Pingdom to constantly monitor all the websites we host for downtime. Pingdom checks our sites as frequently as every minute and provides instant notifications of downtime via its iPhone app. This a ...
Protected Data
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 Posted in web development | No Comments »How is your website protected? Does your web developer or host create daily/weekly/monthly backups of your site files and database? Typically clients don't tend to ask these questions until the damage is already done. It's good to ask sooner rather ...
Where Does my Website Live?
Friday, October 23rd, 2009 Posted in web development | No Comments »Recently I was asked by a client why they'd want to host a site with us when there are web hosts that offer hosting for 4 bucks a month. The short reasoning I gave them was support, reliability, and time. We ...
Bridging the Gap
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 Posted in design, web development | 1 Comment »So, why would I, a graphic designer, want to intern at a web development firm? My answer is this: Design and development should not be mutually exclusive. The web is, by far, the most heavily used medium for communicating, so ...
Is that a Game?
Monday, July 27th, 2009 Posted in web development | No Comments »AJAX - has been the web buzz word for 2009. Some believe it to be a design style, some refer to a great user-interface as ajax, while others think its a new version of the children's game jacks. ...
Color Shift?
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 Posted in design, web development | No Comments »Working with designers has given me an increased sensitivity in the differences between viewing websites in browsers verses their PSD blueprints. One slight difference we have frequently seen is a dull color shift from the PSDs to the finished ...
Ownership?
Friday, May 15th, 2009 Posted in Web2.0, web development | No Comments »Since we are all living in the age of facebook, ning, and twitter we can't deny that a lot of us live our lives online. We use various social media services to connect with our friends, plan events, learn about ...
Facebook to Take Over the Internet?
Monday, April 27th, 2009 Posted in Web2.0, web development | No Comments »I recently had the privilege of speaking to an employee of facebook and they were sharing some of MarkZ's thoughts about the online community. Our un-named source was telling us that their goal is to completely replace the users web ...
Data
Monday, April 13th, 2009 Posted in web development | No Comments »I know that it takes a special breed of person to be interested in survey results, but thats how we roll here at Floodlight. The ALA survey results were released this past week and its an interesting peek into the lives ...
A Coder’s Best Friend
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Posted in web development | No Comments »So, I always used to wonder why developers laughed at me when I told them I used Dreamweaver as my choice code editor. I am very used to the code complete features of Dreamweaver so I thought it was the ...
