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Deliberate, thoughtful design is not easy. I strive to create works that are professional, whether it’s by complying with precise standards or providing the quality clients expect. My style? Throw in two parts minimalist, one part flair, a handful of humor and a dash of cowboy. Blend until smooth.

"It'll give us so much extra space in our room to do activities!"
- Dale Doback, Stepbrothers

Spam bots, I smite thee! (part I: Form spam )

Spam bots are like insatiable fire ants; they’ll swarm you website and pick it apart. Before you know it, your inbox will be full of “Lesbians lOOking for cOck now” or “Free v1agr4!”.

To defeat such beast, you must know how it hunts.

These bots perform similarly to googlebots, scouring your website source code looking for tasty treats like “@” or…

PPC: This isn’t the drug you took last weekend.

PPC (or pay per click) isn’t a drug. Well, okay, it might be a drug, but I’d compare it closer to anabolic steroids than what makes kids see 6 foot bunnies toting a message from the end of the world (a la Donnie Darko.)

As always, we begin with a hypothetical situation.

Imagine you’re an emerging business owner, proud operator of “Freddy’s…

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What started out as a purely web developer / SEO-centric blog has slowly degraded into the odd kitchen drawer of fancies. Now where did i put that sewing kit...

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