What’s the Point?
Topics: Web Design
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Clients sometimes come to us knowing they need to rebrand or have a new logo created before developing their website. We don’t do branding, of course; we send them to some of our trusted friends. We focus specifically on the technology side, but we still understand the necessity of a well developed logo and coordinating brand identity.

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Learning to Love to Learn CSS
Topics: Industry Trends, Web Design
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So my daughter started school last week. No, seriously. At 2 1/2 years of age, my daughter is learning from a pre-school kit my wife purchased a little while back. For 90 minutes a day, my wife if teaching my daughter colors, shapes, and numbers. I watched them for a few minutes the other day, and it was extremely funny, cute, and exhilarating to watch — one of those moments where you’re a really proud dad.

My daughter loves to learn what my wife is teaching her. She soaks up every little bit. She loves learning new colors, playing matching games with them, and making crafts with materials of those colors. School and I didn’t get along nearly as much. Now don’t get me wrong, I could learn how to play a video game like it was nobody’s business; but don’t get me started on math. School was a necessary evil to me. And unfortunately, for so many people involved in the web, CSS (or Cascading-Style-Sheets) is a necessary evil as well. This attitude leads to unclean, sloppy, and often buggy design.    

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Did you know? Google Personalized Searches.
Topics: SEM
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Last month, fellow Worthwhile Web Strategist, Chris Rackley, asked me to Google something about one of his “most popular” blog posts he had written. He was surprised he was still #1 in the rankings.

I queried. “Chris,” I said, “you aren’t even on my first two pages!” He and I both supposed I had queried incorrectly. I double-checked. In fact, my verbiage was a match with his.

Two identical searches only seconds apart from 5 feet apart yields two completely unique results listings in Google. Whaaaat?!

Google announces Personalized Searching

From what I can see from Google searching (ironically), this technology existed in Google Labs format as early as 2004-05, not actually being used until around Spring 2007. (2005/11 article)

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Security: The Never-ending Battle
Topics: Security
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Businesses such as Worthwhile are in a constant battle known as security.  This battle is taken up in multiple fronts: physical, interactive, and technological.

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Why Greenville is growing
Topics: Community Involvement, Web Design
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Ok, I admit it…the boxes of stuff I dragged to the GROW Expo are back at the office but not unpacked yet. Hey, I’m working on it! We had a great day in our booth catching up with some of our clients and meeting new business owners. It wouldn’t have happened without the help of many more Greenville vendors who I called on (some of them at the last minute) to help create our space at the Expo.

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