Marine Mom – Care and Feeding Your Recruit
Marine mom sleep is like having a newborn at home, where you wake every few hours to feed your child and cuddle. The other night at about 3am I distinctly ... Read more...
View ArticleDon’t Move the Cheerios
It took the threat of moving my son’s Cheerios to finally uncover the reasons why I wasn’t coping well with his being at Marines boot camp. My sister was the ... Read more...
View ArticlePhone Booth
I decided to turn my life around when the only choice I had left was to make a phone call from a phone booth near a church in a rural ... Read more...
View ArticleThe Magic of Hippie Dust
I marvel that I have two very different offspring. One, a earthy natural living healing organic woman and the other competitive, all around sportsman, and future US Marine. The almost ... Read more...
View ArticleA Woman’s Inspiration, Beatrice Wood
I don’t recall where I got the nudge to purchase I Shock Myself: The Autobiography of Beatrice Wood but once starting to read the book, I feel sad I will ... Read more...
View ArticleWhen Great Trees Fall
When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants lumber after safety. When great trees fall in forests, small things recoil ... Read more...
View ArticleBefore Search Engines
Before search engines Answers came from the rooms in my mind. Preferences sorted by an all knowing source not manipulated by greed, and inspiration to keep asking more questions from ... Read more...
View ArticleLetting Go
“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot ... Read more...
View ArticleBecoming Real
“Real isn’t how you are made,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to ... Read more...
View ArticleThe Internet Yelled at Me
The Internet yelled at me. After a series of personal experiences online in various social websites, it felt like it was time for me to shut up because I was ... Read more...
View ArticleI Prefer to be called an SEO Gladiator
:: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 :: As far as what optimizing I do, it’s all in the code (how the site is built), refocusing meta tags and title tags to fit the subject matter of each page, and adding to or...
View Article10 Things to Consider When Designing Your E-Commerce Website
:: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 :: 1. Do you provide adequate information about your products? 2. Do you offer online help for your online applications, such as a link to a FAQ, or popup online help...
View ArticleFrom User Interface Engineer to Usability Testing
New from Creative Vision Web Consulting The process of moving from user interface design to usability testing signaled a major turning point in my career. I had been designing websites since 1995 and...
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The Sacred Act of Giving Away Expertise
New from Creative Vision Web Consulting “Further, you do not call attention to what you’ve been given, or show displeasure if someone seems to have gotten something better than you. It is not the gift,...
View ArticleBlockmetry Tests Show Analytics Blocking is Real
New from Creative Vision Web Consulting When Geology.com beta tested Blockmetry, their discoveries were surprising. The website depends on its ad revenue for survival and like other web properties...
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Web and Software Developers: Step Away From the Keyboard and Watch UX
New from Creative Vision Web Consulting I propose a new job description called “Real Life User Experience Testing”, whose role is to assist software and website developers by luring them away from the...
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Keyword Relevance and The Stories They Could Tell Us
New from Creative Vision Web Consulting Google has figured how to perform remote viewing and knows what I’m doing, while Bing is completely out of touch with reality. The painstaking work by SEO’s...
View ArticleThe Pressure from Google to Be “Mobile First”
New from Creative Vision Web Consulting Ever since Google announced its preference for “mobile first” web pages and applications for search engine query results, the crowd of companies wanting to...
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Why Do I Need a Mobile Web Site?
New from Creative Vision Web Consulting Web design for mobile friendly web pages is not new. In fact, it’s ancient history. And while most companies slept through mobile design, Google decided the...
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First Steps in Decision Making for Mobile Design
New from Creative Vision Web Consulting Part two of the three part series, “Why Do I Need a Mobile Website”. The first step is performance testing your existing website. Automated tools for mobile...
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