Web Development There is a new breed of online video consumers: those who consume via mobile devices. Is your business utilizing HTML5 video to tap this growing marketing? We share more of our Internet marketing predictions on the Galvin blog. 2012 is the year to really think about how you are engaging, converting, and retaining [...]
Web Development How do you cope with HTML5’s dueling standards bodies while supporting web browsers that are becoming more fluid? The line between writing books and programs has gotten more blurry these days. Will you take advantage of the tools Amazon has released to allow you program e-books with HTML and CSS? Great news for [...]
I was getting some work done at a local restaurant this morning and overhead a waiter taking an order from a customer. The customer ordered a main dish and included, “I’d like to substitute the fruit cup for the potatoes.” If you are like me, I took this to mean that the customer wanted potatoes. [...]
Web Development Want to establish an online authority? Here are 11 ways to use content to do so. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) publishes a draft of media accessibility requirements. Web developers have a lot to look forward to in 2012, like saying goodbye to IE6 support. Here are 4 other predictions. Foursquare’s mobile [...]
This past weekend I found myself getting caught up watching Quinten Tarantino’s 1994 classic gangster film Pulp Fiction. Of all of the great scenes in the movie, I’ve always been most fond of the, “The Bonnie Situation.” In case you don’t recall or haven’t seen the film, The Bonnie Situation is a short part in [...]
I was never athletic enough to be on the track team in high school, but they did make us practice handing off a baton in high school gym class. I’m quite sure it must have been a magnificient display of un-athleticism. Now…why am I reminiscing about high school gym class on our technology blog? That is [...]
Surprises are only good for Birthdays and Christmas time. Okay, so that’s probably not entirely true, but in the business world, surprises, or things you’re not expecting to happen, are almost always a bad thing. Just think about how much time and money your organization puts into creating strategic and formal business plans. The meetings [...]
Whether the end product is a Micro-site promoting your newest product, an ecommerce platform in which to sell that new product, or even a space shuttle bound for Mars, the term that you’ll hear associated with all of these projects is “deliverable”. A deliverable, by its Project Management Institute (PMI) definition, is a “tangible, verifiable work [...]
As we continue to advance further into the digital age and our personal and professional networks continue to grow, it becomes more and more likely that the companies and organizations that we all service will place increasing value in utilizing multiple resources to accomplish their IT and Marketing initiatives. When this occurs, you’ll often be asked to work with [...]
You’re managing a project and suddenly the client’s project sponsor changes. How should you best handle that?
President Theodore Roosevelt put great pressure on the Chief Engineer John Wallace to “make dirt fly” and the project started off badly. In a web or software development project use a work breakdown structure to properly manage all the details, scope and budget of the project.
When doing a web and software development project the project management is crucial. Make sure it is done right.