Spare Time?

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:40:33 -0400

As many of you know, I am pretty active in the forums at Joomla.org. I have really met a lot of prospects there which has been very good for business, but mostly, I just enjoy it. Side benefit: I have learned MUCH more than I have taught.

So it came as a bit of a surprise when they asked me to help moderate in some forums, and I agreed to give it a shot.

The good side?: I'm already there as much as I can be, so I'm not really a

From Scratch

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:11:53 -0400

When you hear the phrase "From Scratch" does it make you think of baked goods? My Grandmother made fruit pies that were extraordinary in every way, and would never have even considered buying a pie crust from the grocery store, because hers, she was confident, were better than what any "factory" could produce. Some years later, my then mother-in-law, who had several college degrees in food sciences told me that "the housewife's best efforts" w

A Vision for Your Life?

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:55:13 -0400

We launched two new websites last week for clients. The first is a brochure site for a consultant practice called "Evergreen3". Three very personable guys from out west who have built a fine business helping all kinds of organizations with team building and communications skills.

The same fellows have written a very popular book called "The Personal Vision Workbook"

New wrapIT Team site Launched!

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:33:46 -0400

Man it is a happy day! The new wrapIT Development Team site looks spectacular – it's got a highly customized Yootheme template, and some fierce illustrations and case studies.

I am going to put it in my portfolio here at harpervance.com, but I didn't do any of the heavy-lifting. The magic is all artful screen

Merchant Accounts Tightening

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:15:25 -0400

E-commerce sites are turning more often to PayPal.

Even just 18 months ago, everyone I talked to about putting up an e-commerce site wanted to avoid (and were willing to spend CASH to avoid using PayPal as their payment gateway. So what has changed?

Well, it seems the banks are cracking down on using merchant accounts designed for "card-in-hand" purchases for on-line transactions.

"What's the difference?", I hear you as

Helping a Friend - Late to the Party?

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:04:19 -0400

I spent a pleasant hour helping a friend who is a bit of a newcomer to the internet with his new WordPress blog the other evening. There is really a lot to admire about WordPress, and I am excited about the "integration" with Joomla! called JDWordPress. I'm currently testing that at www.gracewomen.org.

I did manage to get his theme installed, with which he had been struggling for a

Breaking the Rules - A Woman's Point of View

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:16:28 -0400

Nearing completion of my portion of the site I'm doing for my wife's friends in their Women's Ministry at our church, I asked her to look at it today to give me her critique... well, she doesn't hate it, but visually, it leaves her cold.

Her exact words, "well, If I see a site that looks like that, I probably would say, 'Oh, that's nice' and then never go there again." When I got over being defensive, I asked her to take me to some sit

Charity is a Contact Sport

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:24:20 -0400

If you've been hanging around computers for very long, you probably remember "Goldmine" and "ACT" and their many imitators which were called "Contact Management" applications. Their purpose was to computerize and streamline the many tasks a salesperson must do to build his business. As one of those products said as a slogan, "Business is a contact sport". Salesforce.com is the "web 2.0" version of this idea, brought on-line.

Forgetting

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Spare Time?

From Scratch

A Vision for Your Life?

New wrapIT Team site Launched!

Merchant Accounts Tightening

Helping a Friend - Late to the Party?

Breaking the Rules - A Woman's Point of View

Charity is a Contact Sport