The Web & Flow Blog
Donations for Sale
In addition to my freelancing, I work full-time for a major non-profit. Often times, I'm presented with (or sometimes, I conjure up) ideas about how to use the web and social media outlets to increase donations. Recently, a colleague/friend challenged me with the idea of developing what she called a "Donation Shopping Cart" that allowed donors to choose from various options, tally an amount, and submit the donation through our donation servers.
FLASHBANG: Convert Your Sites!
On November 9, 2011, Adobe announced that they are no longer going to be developing the Flash plug-in for mobile devices. You probably know that Flash hasn't worked on the iPhone since day one, and it's been buggy and a battery drainer on the Android devices that it DID work on. Adobe has conceeded that HTML5 is the answer and will pursue developing tools that further enable development in that area.
Don't forget the Photography
Web and Flow Design loves a great design. We all do. Seeing a blank screen take shape into a colorful, thoughtful, elegant website is a great process to be a part of. We'll keep doing it for a long, long time. Just like actors on stage, though, sometimes we upstage (either intentionally or otherwise) the main player - the content on a website. When a design is so big, and boisterious that it takes away from the message, products, or purpose of a website, then something has gone awry.
CSA Software
Some time ago, I had the opportunity to develop custom web software for a Community-Supported Agriculture network based in Gastonia, NC. Home Harvest is a CSA that supports many local farmers. As a proponent of eating produce and meat grown using sustainable means, I was excited to take on this project - supporting the CSA movement is something that I certainly take pride it.
Get a Better Password
In the last episode of Security Now, Steve talked about passwords and about how, in his research, he's discovered somethings that will CHANGE the way the we think about passwords. If you're like me, you want to find something memorable and something that's not too tedious to type in. But, the fact of the matter is, passwords like "abc123" or "mydogsname" are incredibly easy for people to guess and/or crack. The alternative from security conscious people has been to use something utterly random like this "@34653;asdf9dDlads8pla;lk4hs;hjadfu04;4$pas34$". Completely secure, but impossible to remember without writing down. In itself, this is a security concern.
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