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Going Solid State

August 17, 2014 When I was a small child, I would climb up onto the top of the RCA Victor black-and-white television in our living room. It was warm up there, and I would peer through the vents down into … Continue reading

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Slimming Down Before Speeding Up

August 17, 2014 I’ve been working with personal computers for over 35 years, so I’ve endured seven types of long-term computer data recording and storage: cassette tapes floppy disks hard drives ZIP drives tape drives optical discs solid state Each … Continue reading

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Mobile site design tips

August 1, 2014 In the previous series of posts, I have outlined why the increasing number of mobile browsers being used on our school district websites led me to develop a new mobile website for the district. My next target … Continue reading

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Our district’s multiple personalities on the web

July 31, 2014 In a previous post I outlined how the visitors to one of our high school websites showed a dramatic shift away from large screen PCs to small-screen mobile devices. That led me to build a new mobile … Continue reading

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Fixing an out-of-touch district website

July 30, 2014 My previous posts outlined how I host and develop my various websites and why my two main sites for the district and the high school needed updating. Since 2009, when the current version of the high school … Continue reading

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