Author Archives: John Reeve

The Year of the Bicycle?

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Neal Peirce, of the Washington Post Writers Group, ponders whether this is the year of the bicycle. As gas prices rise and our physical health declines, it makes sense that more and more people will opt for their bicycles as an alternative method of transportation. Think about the cumulative effect you could have on your […]

Four Tips for Tracking Your Time Consistently

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Every small business struggles with tracking their time. As a web development shop, we’ve been constantly evolving and improving our time tracking methodologies since we started eight years ago. Here are some tips we have learned along the way. 1. Group your daily tasks by availability and type of work If you know you are […]

Three Lessons on Writing Code, From a Graphic Designer

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When writing code — HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript, or whatever — it is important to remember that yourself and others will read and interpret that code again at some point. In addition to being free of syntax errors and bugs, your code needs to be human readable. Here are three fundamental graphic design principals that […]

Sustainable Design

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Sustainability is an increasingly popular buzzword being thrown about the Internet, but what does it mean? And more specifically, what does it mean for designers? At Pelago, it means a few things: Printing our collateral on recycled papers using enviro-friendly inks Using the laser printer only when necessary, and trying to keep printouts on one […]

Valuing Time as a Business Resource

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An interview with Curt Finch, CEO of Journyx, Inc., on why tracking time is a necessary business practice. Here are some excerpts from the interview on task and time tracking, Software as a Service, and encouraging employees to provide accurate data. Why tracking time against projects and tasks is important Well, the most obvious thing […]

How to Assemble a Web Design Team Based on the A-Team

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To create a successful web designing company, creating and developing web sites, you are going to need a specialized and diverse team who share common goals of doing quality work. The A-Team, although stuck in the 80s, is a perfect example for building a web development team. Their skills complemented one another perfectly, and they knew […]