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If you are running an OSX-based web server for your testing / staging machine as I am, you have probably needed to update your PHP library to a php5.3.x build.  I’m using Entropy for this and things seemed fine on the webserver.  Most tutorials have the same information out there about getting you running with […]

Techism can design your site with contemporary looks and usability from scratch or by customizing a wordpress theme in-place. We can spend as much time as you want researching, drafting wireframes and thumbnail sketches and using creative briefs to guide the process. It’s up to you what sort of process you are looking for.

I am no programmer. I’m a normal guy…Uh…I don’t know why I find myself sniffing around API documentation on my lunch break, or why I end up staring into the screen at 3:00 am with the door closed and the computer sound turned way down so my wife doesn’t hear the casts from railsenvy . […]

Honesty and forthrightness are the characteristics of a good design as well as a good designer. Never try to confuse or bamboozle your client with industry terms to brow-beat them into accepting a design. Here are some of the industry proven methods for ensuring a smooth creative process that I employ: The Techism Creative Process: […]

This was holding me up for a while. I asked around online and did some code searches on Google but wasn’t able to find a good rails solution to truncating a string of HTML coming out of Textile without cutting off tags and making a general mess of things. Links in particular were problematic. In […]

More and more often I’m getting calls and emails from clients who have a new web site project that, as an afterthought, they want good Google placement on. A typical exchange is: “Joe, I need you to drive traffic to my site and have it show up on Google.” The problem is that this assumes […]

Uh… I thought you were a web designer? Hey, when I say creative services that are more than just web design, I mean it! Techism provides a full range of creative services. Today’s blog post comes from a client who has used my musical services in the past and asks me just how one records […]

For my allies in the war against poor marketing, bad design, and the gulf between customers and companies – I present this list of resources that techism uses and approves in order to get down to business. Have a better resource, suggestions, words of caution? Feel free to comment here. Project Management: Duh, BaseCamp. Plus, […]