McClintock Design

Web designer lunch

Blindog — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:15:22 +0000

Let’s Do Lunch,

If you’re looking for some web design help, validation or just need answers to questions I can help. Since the beginning of the internet McClintock Design has contributed to it’s growth. I specialize in working with businesses and entrepreneurs to turn ideas into a reality. If you need help understanding your online advertising options I can help. Questions I get all the time include: What should I do first? What is worth paying for and what is a ripp-off? What the heck is the difference between SEM, SEO and SMO? Why are web site analytics important? Can you help me with this? What ever your burning questions about web design, graphic design, advertising and social media. Bring your list and let’s do lunch.

What time?
Monday through Friday between 11:00 AM to 2:00PM.
Where?
I work in Sunnyvale, CA so it should be close. There are lots of great places to eat and talk.
Why lunch?
Because everyone has to eat lunch. I do have a full-time day job working for a large global multinational corporation.
How long is lunch?
1 hour. If you have a good time and you think I can help you further lets do dinner.
Who pays for lunch?
You do. My standard hourly rate is $125 an hour, so the $10-$15 bucks for lunch is a deal.
What if I don’t like your answers?
I’ll be honest with you and tell you what I know from my perspective. Your risk is low since this is only lunch.
What does Scott get out of this?
Lunch, of course! I get a chance to meet new people, provide valuable insight and help solve problems.

If you are up for a Web Designer Lunch then contact me at the form below:

BurningAmp Festival Web Site

Blindog — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 04:19:36 +0000

Web design and development for the new 5th Annual Burning Amp Festival – October 1, 2011. The DIY show for audiophiles and the general public who make their own equipment or are interested in making their own components. Bring your friends and fellow techies to check out this year’s displays of cool amps, speakers, and parts done by audio enthusiasts and DIY’ers from around the world.

Providing the web hosting and WordPress development for event organizers. Simple site with basic event related information and sponsorship elements.

ROLE
Project Management
Web Design
Developer

SOFTWARE
Wordpress
Adobe Photoshop

eMail Blast HTML Basics

Blindog — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:59:10 +0000

About HTML tags and basic page formatting.

This is a short tutorial on the basics of HTML for creating and sending out email blasts. While the ability to save any document as HTML is now native to many applications, it still helps to know the basics in case something goes wrong. By learning the short list of commands outlined in this tutorial you will be able to add simple text formatting, add an external link, add images from the server, add an email link, and test your email before sending out.

You can create your email blast in any text editor application your are most familiar with. Notepad, Dreamweaver are two recommendations. A word of caution regarding Microsoft Word, while I recommend using it to test and send your final file, Word has a tendency to add proprietary HTML code that adds to your final file size. Also, authoring in Word can have some unique problems. The goal of this tutorial is to quickly show you what you really need to send out a clean HTML email. While you can author in Word, just be aware that odd things can happen.

Remember that not all email clients support HTML formatted messages. Lets get started.

This tutorial will cover the following:

Basic text formatting
More text formatting options
Adding images
Adding external links
Adding a link to an image
Adding an email link
More email link options
Get your email blast ready
Testing your final email
Congratulations

>> START with basic HTML text formatting