http://lannendesigns.com Web site design and development Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:31:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last December I filed for a Federal copyright for this web site after another site literally stole the content from this site. They didn't even bother to remove my business name from the content. Yes, it was that bad. Well this web site is now ... http://lannendesigns.com/federal-copyright The previous analogy for having a Flash splash page or a web site completely built using Flash is that of a mime standing in front of a grocery store, and trying to tell you where the milk is. Well my new one is go stand in a small closet at night ... http://lannendesigns.com/flash-analogy Where I work (day job) we use a handful of local graphic designers primarily for print work.  Well we sent off one print job to a local sign printer according to the specifications he requires.  Not a problem.  Right?!  Well his "graphic designer" couldn't work with the .eps file we ... http://lannendesigns.com/when-to-fire-your-graphic-designer I subscribe to various industry newsletters, and I have to agree whole heartedly. The crux of his disillusionment is that web developers' "highly trained skills have been commoditized by market ignorance."That is, clients don't understand the web, so they fail to understand what they need, and don't have the knowledge ... http://lannendesigns.com/the-state-of-the-web-design I have decided to make a few resolutions, or goals for the upcoming year.  I want to learn Ruby on Rails, AJAX, JQuery, CSMS, get another shopping cart under my belt (Magento).  Become a WordPress goddess.  Advance my PHP skills. Never take on a cheap ass demanding client.  Thankfully I've never ... http://lannendesigns.com/upcoming-new-year The violator is http://www.viwebdesigns.com. I had contacted him with a Cease and Desist. His response was: "The site was taken down. I am not the only one creating the content and will have any copyright information that pertain to your site and remove it. I do apologize I think this ... http://lannendesigns.com/copyright-infringement-violator Well after finding out that someone was using my copyrighted material on their website this topic is timely. And yes, my web site is copyrighted and a copyright is filed. So don't take my content because I can be awarded monetary damages. If I didn't have the ... http://lannendesigns.com/trademarks-and-copyright A fellow developer forwarded this and I have to agree with her. It is a great use of Flash and video, and is the online 2006 portfolio of illustrator/creative Dave Werner. And no you do not want an all Flash web site for a business, unless you're an illustrator or ... http://lannendesigns.com/great-use-of-flash-and-video Well I found a web site this morning that stole the content from my site word for word. They didn't even bother to remove my business name.  I have PDFs of the his pages. http://lannendesigns.com/copyright-infringement I know that many do not believe that clean code is all that important.  I do though.  An example is a shopping cart that I had to fix last week.  It was written by an off-shore firm (and there's nothing wrong with that in and of itself).  The problemwas that ... http://lannendesigns.com/importance-of-clean-code