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Internet Sales Tax

I feel pretty strongly about Internet sales tax. I have owned and run an e-commerce business for over 5 years. We pay sales tax to our state for any orders that ship to our state. Orders from out of state are exempt from sales tax, as they should be. When someone orders from out of [...]

By |July 24th, 2005|Business & Marketing, E-Commerce|Comments Off on Internet Sales Tax

New Office

Well, I've finally made the leap and leased an office for my business. The new office is in a shared office building with a few other businesses but it's very quiet overall. The office space is pretty large and I will have plenty of room (much more than I do now). There is even enough [...]

Redesigns Coming Up

I'm doing redesigns of several of my websites. I don't think I'll be designing my personal site anytime soon but I will be redesigning RackData.com, EleyTech, and E-Commerce Resources in the coming days (or weeks). The reason? I'm making them more accessible, more usable and more standards-compliant. In doing this, I hope to increase search [...]

By |May 15th, 2005|E-Commerce, Web Development|Comments Off on Redesigns Coming Up

Web Design vs. Web Development

The title of this post isn't really completely accurate. It's the best title I could come up with though, so it will do. My post today is about the difference between "design firms" that do web design and web development companies that specialize in web development (and standards, accessibility and usability). I had a meeting [...]

By |May 4th, 2005|Business & Marketing, Web Development|Comments Off on Web Design vs. Web Development

The joy of zen…

My Creative Zen Micro came in the mail today. What an awesome thing technology is. I don't care what you Apple freaks say - other companies can make some pretty nice MP3 players. My new Zen Micro syncs with Napster to Go (which I'm a member of) so I can download to my heart's content [...]

By |April 27th, 2005|Personal, Technology|Comments Off on The joy of zen…