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Julie Blitzer
Aug 2, 2010

Why Non-Profits Need User Experience Design

TASC Pathfinder
The non-profit organization faces unique challenges with any web project. There are budget and internal skill limitations not typically faced by a for-profit entity. We've addressed what you need to know about ... more
Julie Blitzer
Jul 29, 2010

#NN10 Report: How to Plan for Your Website Redesign Training

Netroots Nation
At Netroots Nation last week, I did the second iteration of a training first introduced at Organizing 2.0 with Fureigh in December 2009: How to Plan for Your Website Redesign. I was joined by Erin Hofteig of Middle Coast and Paula Brantner of Workplace Fairness,... more
Adam Mordecai
Jul 21, 2010

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, and then gets blogged all over the internet.

Netroots Nation
There are very few organizations who make our list of people we have to sponsor. There's only one we commit to sponsoring every year. That amazing org is called Netroots... more
Adam Mordecai
Jun 23, 2010

We're going to Mercury.... Hosting!

We have some exciting news. We are now officially supporting Pantheon Mercury as an add-on service with all our dedicated and shared Virtual Private... more
Amanda Luker
Jun 16, 2010

Volunteering at Free Geek Twin Cities

Editor's Note: This is the first in an ongoing series about what our team does in their spare time to help good causes. ... more
Amanda Luker
Jun 2, 2010

Arm yourself with Drupal $body_classes!

A common question I get for theming Drupal sites is how to apply css to specific pages. For example, you might want your background image for your header to change on specific pages. Out of the box, Drupal doesn't give you any class in the HTML that's unique to your node to grab onto. This is... more
Dylan Clear
May 25, 2010

How to Give Your Project A Fighting Chance (Part 1)

"What we learn from lessons learned is that we don’t learn from lessons learned." - T. Block So you are about to kickoff a project. You have a budget, a deadline, and a deliverable: an awesome website launch. As you already know, there are 3 criteria by which... more
Aaron Welch
May 18, 2010

Cloud Hosting, Drupal, and You

     In the last few years, the term “cloud computing” has become the ubiquitous new buzz-word to toss around when talking about flexible, scalable hosting solutions. Unfortunately, as often happens when a new concept is introduced to a large market, it is often... more
Dave Hansen-Lange
May 10, 2010

The dreaded "MySQL has gone away" error

In environments where there are many databases running on the same machine (ex. shared hosting), or in high traffic environments (ex. enterprise sites) it is a common problem that unterminated connections to the database linger around indefinitely until MySQL starts spitting out the "Too many... more
Julie Blitzer
May 4, 2010

The Web Development Process for Newbies

Are you a Communications Director or Campaign Manager who has just been asked to take care of getting your organization a new website? Never done this before and not sure why it's part of your job? You're not alone! At least once each week I talk to someone in your position who seems lost and not... more
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