Email List Management
Lately I’ve been working on some email marketing projects. While I’ve had an AWeber account for about 6 months, it wasn’t until last month that I’ve really figured out what I wanted to do with it and now I’m LOVING it! If you are looking to build a email list, AWeber is amazing. The price is tiered, based on how many subscribers you have, and the power “under the hood” is amazing. From automation, to targeted mailings, to multiple lists, to great analytic, the list of powerful features go on and on. I...
read moreWordPress Roles and Capabilities
If you have a blog or site with multiple contributors, this is a very helpful chart that shows the roles and capabilities each one carries. I often forget what all the roles can do and reference this chart often.
read moreEntrepreneurs Can Change the World
Inspiration for the entrepreneurial soul: HT: Peter Shankman
read moreDesign Simple HQ in Bellingham WA
All the paperwork is finally in and Design Simple’s headquarters are now officially (and legally) in Bellingham, WA. That is all…
read more"Simple" Flash Coundown Timer
I hate Flash. I’ve got more than a few reasons, but sufficed to say that it is one of the most unintuitive programs I’ve ever used. Regardless of that fact, I faced off with my web nemesis the other day when, at my day job, I began working on a countdown clock that would count the time until John Calvin’s birthday. Probably the biggest help I found was from the folks at Flash Speaks Actionscript. With their help I was able to get the countdown working, but I was still stuck with not being able to make the resulting .swf into...
read moreHammer SC
Hammer SC (supporters club) is a group of Seattle Sounders FC in Bellingham, WA. The group began at the start of the 2009 MLS season and needed a place to inform club members of upcoming events and Sounders news. The club also wanted to ability to sign up new members and manage their mailing list via the website. Note: It appears this site is no longer maintained.
read moreDesign Simple Redesign
The truth is that I really don’t have the time to continually update my own site. Between work, clients, and family, updating designsimple.net just falls low on the to-do list. That all changed today thanks to the fact that I just moved all my websites from HostICan(‘t) to Hostmoster. As I was about to move Design Simple over I thought, “oh, what the heck, it is now or never.” So, a couple hours and 1 Sam Adams later… here ya go… the new diggs for Design Simple. So, what do you...
read moreHenry's Backyard
Henry’s Backyard is “digging up the world’s smartest products for every stage of your pup’s life.” This highly customized site is full of dynamic content and has a built in store. For the project design simple also handled a large portion of the custom graphics.
read moreRental Home in Destin
SunBurns LLC contacted Design Simple to put together a simple site that would showcase the beauty of one of their key properties, a rental home in Destin. The site was also optimized for search engines and has brought in numerous new vacation renters since the site was launched.
read moreGoing to Seminary
Going to Seminary is the go-to site for current and future seminarians. Authored by a group of current seminarians, the site offeres advice and insight into seminary life. The creator of Going to Seminary wanted a magazine style site that incorporated ad space, polls, and numerous sections of the home page.
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