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Web Design and Engineering Posts at CahillDigital.com

Web Design and Engineering Posts at CahillDigital.com

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  I’ve started blogging on my new company site – http://cahilldigital.com so you will definitely want to add that to your reading list.  My last post was about Responsive Design, Retina Displays and their importance in new site development.  The title is “Welcome to Retina-stan.” Meanwhile in the present day, designers have to deal with a web that requires a “responsive” design – on that by using media queries will present the appropriate css 3 styles to a browser, be…

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Initial Thoughts on the HP G7 and the Toshiba Satellite P855

Initial Thoughts on the HP G7 and the Toshiba Satellite P855

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I found myself with a sudden need for new laptop last week.  Not something I was really looking forward too, as I had a perfectly fine Dell MP4500 in my grasp up until last Friday afternoon. Initially I thought I might make do with the HP G7 – exactly the same machine I picked up for my mother last month.  17.3″ screen, AMD A6 processor, 4 meg of ram and a nice price tag at $429.00 on special at BestBuy….

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Home Printers – Box O’Nightmare

Home Printers – Box O’Nightmare

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Over the time, we expect that technology will improve.  The general notion is that gadgets become cheaper, with richer feature sets, and finely tuned reliability as they mature.  We see this throughout tech, in computers, smartphones, tablets, etc.  Everywhere, except printers.  Let’s face it, home printing technology has become harder to use, less reliable and has generally been on a downward spiral since the invention of the ink jet printer. Back in the 80’s, I could run thousands of sheets…

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Taking Control of Your EVO 4G

Taking Control of Your EVO 4G

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Simple Tips for the Cyanogen Mod of the EVO 4G The problem: My Evo 4g Android phone ran out of space constantly due to the limited “on phone” memory (428 mb total).  Most of this space was eaten up by apps my mobile carrier, Sprint, had added to the phone which couldn’t be moved to my SD card.  Things like “Sprint NFL”, “Sprint NASCAR” and “Sprint TV” as well as a host of apps like Blockbuster, which I’d never, ever…

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Widgets – The Special Sauce for Android

Widgets – The Special Sauce for Android

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Since January I’ve been rockin’ the HTC Evo 4g after being a long term iPhone user thanks to a ludicrous encounter with AT&T’s braindead customer service team.  In that time, I’ve found the Android experience to be a great one, and in many ways, it’s an improvement over the old iPhone.  I finally pinned down the primary reason the other day:  widgets. You see widgets on the Android phone allow me to put the information I want to see right…

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The Forgotten 404 Page

The Forgotten 404 Page

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There’s a page on your site that never gets any love.  You don’t really spend time thinking about it, your readers hate it when they see it and Google dings you for search if you don’t have it set up correctly.  The lowly 404 page… Admit it, you probably don’t even know what yours looks like.  Why should you?  You setup everything right on the site, then no one should ever see it. Wrong…no matter how well you run your…

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WordPress Scalability

WordPress Scalability

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I know why I turn off many of the “tech experts” and “internet celebrities” – they’re wrong so often it makes my head spin.  Take Chris Pirillo today on Google + pitching Tiki as a CMS, as an alternative to WordPress or MediaWiki. The statement as to why he doesn’t like WordPress was very plain: “it doesn’t scale”. Bullshit on that I say!  It most certainly does scale and I’ve proven that over the years.  Geek.com alone used to withstand…

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How to know your Web Designer Isn’t…

How to know your Web Designer Isn’t…

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I’ve had the opportunity over the years to work with some real first class web designers. People like Mark Hentschel, Jill Cole and Bill Hall, just to name a few.  Unfortunately, there have also been a bunch on the other side who’ve billed themselves as web designers and weren’t…so here’s a list off the warning signs that you’re dealing with a web designer who isn’t a web designer. The design arrives as a flat jpg image that looks like it’s…

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Thoughts on Google + After Limited Use

Thoughts on Google + After Limited Use

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Okay, I’ve used Google + for a couple days now which makes me utterly qualified to render summary judgement on it. I like it.  At least enough that I’ll keep using it for the short term.  I think it quite possibly will bridge the gaps between the public stream which I use Twitter for, meatspace friends who I keep on Facebook and the working world which I avoid on LinkedIn.  Here I can have them all and keep them segregated…

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WordPress 3.2 – Good, But Wait!

WordPress 3.2 – Good, But Wait!

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I’m really just posting to test that everything is working in WP 3.2 – I’ve just done the upgrade here as a test.  So far it’s looking good, but you should be aware this is a major level upgrade and also is the point at which WP leaves behind legacy support for older versions of PHP and MySQL – you should have: PHP version 5.2.4 or greater MySQL version 5.0 or greater This upgrade means that not all hosts are…

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