Station Master's Journal

A place for our creative musings on web-design, technology, and life.

Archive for December, 2007

CommandShift3

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

No it’s not some a keystroke in Microsoft Word, it’s a website where you can rate websites against one another. Think “Hot or Not” but with more of a web design focus.

Link: CommandShift3



Free Rice

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

For each word you get right they donate 20 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger. Apparently this site is doing quite a bit for raising literacy rates in American public schools while also contributing to a worthy cause. The program is made possible by advertisers who pay to have their marketing material displayed on the site.

www.freerice.com



More Information on Web Standards

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Web Standards Project

As mentioned in our reasons why to choose us we touched briefly on web-standards. This is something I've felt needs a little more explaining, and it's worthwhile taking a read through this article if you are unsure what web standards are, or how they might apply to the design and development of your website.

Check out the full article on our website.



Attending Green Drinks

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

img_1590.jpgWell I’ve finally made a decision to attend my first ever Green Drinks upcoming on the 11th of December. The green business network meets from 5-8pm down at the Canoe Club in downtown Victoria. My colleague Roger Colwill started the organization, being a passionate man with a very green thumb. Unfortunately Roger passed away this fall while I was away in South America so now I have taken it upon myself to join his network and contribute to the growing number of small businesses here in Victoria that are looking to make a change for the environment.