Jeff Bezos is just another guy who spent summers at his granddad’s cattle ranch. A talented mathematician, he started in his twenties working on Wall Street. Then one day in the early 1990s, he decided to make a cross-country drive from New York to Seattle and on the way he wrote a business plan for a small company he believed might make a profit. He initially set up the company in his garage. That was what we now know as Amazon. He redefined the way we think about Internet shopping; his company is now holding the infrastructure of what we now know as the World Wide Web; they deliver content, make products, deliver an amazing customer experience, and people love them. Here are some of the things he said over the past few years that might make you want to …

GetSimple CMS, a flat file CMS by Chris Cagle, is designed to serve a niche market for the small web site that doesn’t need all the bells and whistles of WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, CMS Made Simple or any other full-blown content management system. And it doesn’t need a database. It runs completely on XML. And, the best thing about it? It’s a snap to design for. Years ago, when we first discovered this clever CMS, we ended up designing our first GS web site on a Friday afternoon. It was a fluke, actually. Client called and needed a site up ASAP. Within an hour of her domain purchase, GS was up and running and within another hour, the site had a spanking new design. Since that time, we’ve created several other client sites based on Get …

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
– Douglas Adams

Everything I ever wanted to know about Typography, Colors, Marketing, Closing the Deal, I learned from the movies…