Just another day at the Sunshine Coast web design office
This has been a typical day doing web design on BC’s Sunshine Coast. Which is to say, it has been high-velocity juggling while standing on a chair balancing on one leg on a saggy pilates ball whilst fielding emails and two phone lines… and a hairdresser to boot. If anyone has ever wondered what it is a Sunshine Coast web designer does all day, here’s a brief sketch: Do the morning rounds with the Bad Dogs. They like their breakfasts as much as I like my bank deposits – not nearly often enough! Make a giant 8-cup...
read moreI’ve received an award from SnippetFact.com!
How exciting! A client sent me a note that they had received an award from http://www.snippetfact.com, for the keyword ‘Kayaking’. A link & graphic was provided along with the following text: You may now feel free to publish your custom made kayaking award on your website or blog as a signature of the trusted content provided. Displaying this award shows users that the content on Talaysay.com is approved and verified by SnippetFact.com. SnippetFact.com is a community built ‘facts only’ website, created to improve...
read moreWhy am I getting sales emails from companies in India and China?
Just this past week two clients have forwarded letters to me to review because they don’t know why companies are contacting them to try and sell them web design and SEO services, or persuade them to buy Asian top-level domain extensions (TLDs) to protect their brand in Asia. Spam remains one of the biggest problems on the modern Internet. Despite all the gains made with filtering on email software, services that run interference at the server level to keep us from even seeing it, and systems developing sophisticated pattern recognition...
read moreIs Self-Employment for You?
As a Community Futures Sunshine Coast board member, my volunteer time in community economic development exposes me to a lot of information and points of intersection in the local business community. This includes small businesses, startups, businesses undergoing expansion, and young people emerging from high school and often entering the work force without a stint in post-secondary education. I’m always surprised that more young people don’t start their own businesses or even think of self-employment as one of the available options...
read moreAdobe Air Smackdown Rant
Adobe, adobe, adobe. Why is it that there are only two emotional states around you (one being ‘blissfully enamored’ and the other being ‘I’d like to wipe your company off the face of the earth’)? Spoiler alert: go back up all your password data, right now. After a near-orgasmic experience of switching over to the subscription-based version of the Adobe Creative Suite of applications for web designer/developers, today I write amidst the wreckage of my password keeping software… my beloved desktop & cloud...
read moreSprout Social: the good news & the bad news with two new tools
Sprout Social, a platform for managing social media campaigns from one login, just announced two new publishing tools and while one is middling to fair for social media management the other is too sexy for the likes of you and me and danged annoying to have, well, dangled in front of the plebian masses while being outrageously out of reach on price point. Sprout Queue is functionally attractive but not exactly the fastest horse out of the gate (or pigeon out of the roost as it were). However, if you’ve long used Buffer, this is one more...
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May 24, 2013 at 3:07 am Ever wonder what, exactly, a web designer does all day? This is why you pay me to do it for you.
Just another day at the Sunshine Coast web design office - Bad Dog Web Design - Sechelt Web...
This has been a typical day doing Sunshine Coast web design. High-velocity juggling while standing on a chair balancing on one leg on a saggy pilates ball...
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Try Limit Logins plugin to prevent future brute force attacks on wordpress admin login: http://bit.ly/10ONFNw
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As soon as login access restored to your wp site, change password to min. 8 digits, u/l case and sp. characters
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April 11, 2013 at 7:05 pm Brute Force Attack blocks admin access to most wordpress self-hosted web sites http://bit.ly/120qtyN Mult hosts affected
Explaining Recent WordPress Service Activity at FatCow
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What happened? Our team became aware of a potential brute-force attack on the default WordPress admin login page. A brute-force attack occurs when a third party attempts to access a system by repea...
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April 8, 2013 at 10:31 pm Do you know how facebook users can designate your facebook page updates as negative? And what happens when they do?
The Simple Reason Facebook Pages Are Losing Reach: Negative Feedback
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Over the past month or so, everyone has been complaining about getting less reach on Facebook. That the algorithm has changed. And that Facebook is now a pay to play system.
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"NERD LIFE, and I have the shirt..." on their own photo.
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April 8, 2013 at 6:34 pm My new hot desk digs at FUSE Community Work Hub. Nice to be back in the old Stern & Associates space with a whole new kind of energy
Erin Whalen But what do the knuckle tattoos say?
April 8, 2013 at 6:55 pm
Bad Dog Design Inc. NERD LIFE, and I have the shirt on to match :)
April 8, 2013 at 8:45 pm
Erin Whalen Nice!!!
April 8, 2013 at 9:28 pm
Bad Dog Design Inc. It's pretty sweet watching the world go by outside, from a bird's eye view
April 8, 2013 at 10:30 pm
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March 13, 2013 at 5:17 pm Yelp.ca is the 'crowbar of marketing'. It gives you LEVERAGE. - Yelp In Your Words Webinar
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March 11, 2013 at 11:07 pm The Sunshine Coast may be 'cottage country' but what if people are looking for cabins instead? (This handy little graph comes from Google Trends)
Mary Craziness So how do you define the difference between the two?
March 12, 2013 at 4:00 am
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March 11, 2013 at 11:04 pm Bad Dog Design Inc. updated their cover photo.
Erin Whalen Love it!
March 11, 2013 at 11:16 pm
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March 6, 2013 at 11:32 pm "Pauline Johnson, a Mohawk from the Six Nations of the Grand River, is listed as being the first indigenous woman to be on a Canadian stamp in 1961. She was the first author and first woman other than the Queen to be featured on a stamp."
Laurier student uncovers Canadian female aboriginal leaders
When Wilfrid Laurier University student Sally Simpson began creating a collage of indigenous female leaders, she was surprised that her biggest challenge wasn...
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March 6, 2013 at 3:48 pm Another one from Terry O'Reilly spinetingling in approach, and who would think to do this via radio? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fWcfTXGQXbk
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March 6, 2013 at 3:41 pm Check out this brilliant radio campaign Snickers did to take their 'you're not you when you're hungry' TV campaign to the airwaves... from Terry O'Reilly's brilliant podcast series, The Age of Influence on CBC.ca
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February 27, 2013 at 5:30 pm @sproutsocial social media mgt tool adds posting of images to directly to timeline on FB: http://bit.ly/YB2g07
Posting Images to the Facebook Timeline
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We have added a new option for Facebook photo uploads through Sprout Social. You can now post photos directly to your Facebook Timeline album. This is a subtle change that gets us one step closer to...
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February 27, 2013 at 4:53 pm #Yahoo #work-from-home policy chg firing up ppl everywhere http://bit.ly/YEMtO2 Mbe at-work perf bonuses a betr option?
Yahoo work-from-home policy riles workers everywhere
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When Stephanie Van Pelt needed to care for her son after surgery, her company gave her the option to work from home.
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February 27, 2013 at 4:29 pm #Wordpress #Plugins: Wield them wisely! Podcast for beg-intermed users http://bit.ly/YZijTx
WordPress Plugins – a Blessing or a Curse? | | DevWebProDevWebPro
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I get a ton of questions about WordPress Plugins, and with good reason. Plugins allow WordPress users to add exciting new functionality to their blogs and websites.
Plugins are also recognized as the primary “weakness” of the WordPress ecosystem, to the point that some experts a
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February 27, 2013 at 4:23 pm Have 6 hours to learn a trick in Photoshop? http://bit.ly/YZht9q
Create a Surreal "Parting of the Sea" Photo Manipulation | Psdtuts+
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In this tutorial, you will combine masking techniques, blending modes, adjustment layers and filters to part the sea and create a surreal photo manipulation.
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February 27, 2013 at 3:48 am This week it's all about HTML. Old HTML. A great way to revitalize the old synapses is to get inside complex tables, scripting and multi-threaded breadcrumb trails and keep it all balanced in your head. (Photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/tom-margie/ - great work!)
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February 23, 2013 at 11:29 pm Stoked on the energy from Aboriginal Business Match 2013. What a great event... and if you're looking for an event manager, I highly recommend http://www.RavenEvents.ca - everything went off without a hitch and I can't remember having as much fun at a conference.
Raven Events, Aboriginal Event Management, Powell River BC, Canada
Raven Events is an aboriginal full-service event management business servicing all facets of event organization from planning to promotion and production.
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February 19, 2013 at 5:11 pm Learning how to eliminate 'mental noise' in conversations and creat effective communication
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"Thanks - it's exciting to be..." on their own photo.
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February 19, 2013 at 12:44 am All ready to go at Aboriginal Business Match in Penticton. First Nations economic development at work.
Karen Amore-Mueller Booth looks great and so do you, Laurie! Good luck. :)
February 19, 2013 at 4:16 am
Bad Dog Design Inc. Thanks - it's exciting to be involved in First Nations economic development
February 19, 2013 at 5:06 pm
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February 19, 2013 at 12:41 am http://www.pentictonwesternnews.com/business/191422841.html
Penticton Western News - Penticton ready to host Aboriginal Business Match
http://www.pentictonwesternnews.com
Representatives from aboriginal communities across B.C. are coming to Penticton next week to make connections with the private sector.
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"We're excited about our first ABM conference - safe travels to all of our fellow attendees, and we look forward to meeting you next week! Bring your social media questions :)" on Aboriginal Business Match 2013's timeline.
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February 2, 2013 at 3:02 am Would you make or accept payments via a smartphone reader like Square? https://squareup.com/ Tell me what you think!
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About
I've been designing web sites for primarily Sunshine Coast based businesses since 1997. My strengths are brainstorming, wordpress template implementation with customization that makes sense, and content generation. I am the President and founder of Bigpacific.com, the guide to everything Sunshine Coast for over 14 years.
I also volunteer my time in the community, especially in the area of economic development, high-tech, and community initiatives. RESOURCES
Monika Melvin What a Day you had!!!See you Tuesday
May 24, 2013 at 6:46 pm