In honor of Blog Day 2008 (http://www.blogday.org/), here are a few blogs that employees here at BigforkWEB enjoy and encourage you to read.

Jana – Project Manager

Neither of my favorite blogs are ‘work related’ and in fact, they are both a direct result of my human need to take a breath that’s not about computers, technology and websites now and then.

Thinksimplenow.com

I stumbled across a blog one day completely by accident, and was promptly hooked on www.thinksimplenow.com . Reading this young woman’s blog about taking a “Clarity Day” gave me a true “A-HA moment.” Turn off the cell phone, the laptop, the television. Unplug. Write. People watch. Walk the dog. Breathe. Why do we need to be reminded to do these things? When you become a technology addict, you forget the clarity that comes from a day without wireless behavior.

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Welcome to the launch of the new BigforkWEB Blog.

We intend to use this new Blog as a tool to share interesting information we come across with our clients and others that could enhance your website.  Technology, best practices and web standards are constantly evolving.  We come across new methods and cool website enhancements daily and we want to share these new capabilities with website owners.

We also want to keep people informed about what is going on at BigforkWEB.  Our company has grown dramatically over the last few years.  We have been and are working on many interesting projects for innovative and creative companies and individuals that we look forward to sharing with you.  We also have a dedicated team of designers, developers, and programmers that live and breathe all things web.  They are looking forward to using this Blog as a tool for communicating and sharing ideas with other developers in the Flathead and beyond.

We hope that you find this new addition to our website helpful.  If you have any ideas for things you would like to see or learn about please send us an email and let us know.  We want to address topics that our audience is curious about.

Lastly, I would like to recognize the hard work of Dani Taylor, our Creative Director, in leading the development of this Blog.  She, along with Carrie Short and Jana Primmer worked long hours putting this together and accomplished it all in a very short time.  They have a lot of ideas for future posts and they are all very excited to have this tool share those ideas with all of you.

Mike Callaghan

President

Living on the Web as I do, I often run into flashy ”free downloads” and “free software” that tempt me as I travel along the internet highway. Occasionally I find something that’s not only free, no strings attached, no fine print or upgrade in 30 days, but is also extremely useful. Such is the case with IrfanView. Albeit awkward to spell and pronounce, it’s a very simple free tool that one can use for manipulating photos.

We frequently build Photo Galleries with web-based administration; these allow our clients to display their products and other interesting items on their websites. With a web-based admin, clients are able to add, edit or delete albums and photos on their own website.  However, to upload photos into your Photo Gallery, they must be of a reasonable and managable size, and they must be .jpg files.

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As a web developer I am constantly keeping up-to-date on web browsers, because believe it or not what web browser someone is using can affect how they view a website. All web browsers interpret HTML and CSS, the building blocks of the web, slightly differently. This means that we are checking all the websites we make in multiple web browsers like IE7 and Firefox.

According to W3schools browser statistics the most frequently used browser is Firefox at 41%; though the combined users of IE6 and IE7 tops this at 52%. We have found that many of our clients, more than the national average, are using IE7 and IE6. Tell us what browser you use and why.

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