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sick of junk snailmail? here’s how to get rid of it.

i saw on the today show this morning a way to get rid of the annoying junk snailmail (snailmail is a term used by internet geeks to differ from email and paper mail. email is email and snailmail is... well, much slower). i get so much junk snailmail that i can't tell the difference between real mail and junk mail. sometimes i throw good mail or bills away...no wonder i...

filtering and reducing spam

fighting spam. samuel little graphic design is taking every effort to reduce spam specifically from web sites we have designed and ones that are in development. we are using several different code methods to help our customers reduce spam. however reducing spam from your web site is half the battle. we don't have control over what our clients do on their own time with their computers. here's a few scenerios:...

Email Alert: Phishing and Pharming

As i've said before it's best to have you own domain name. with a domain name you can create many different email addresses. one that i use is "submit" @slgd.com. i use this email when i sign up for things and don't really care if i hear back from that web site or service again. because if i start getting alot of spam to that email address i can delete...

email “subject” lines

it's really best to have a subject line in an email. it's good email etiquette. for anyone, not only myself, subject lines if filled out accurately can be very helpful to the end user, because it cuts down on having to search an email you're looking for. one of my pet peeves is when a sender picks an email randomly and sends an email that has nothing to do with...

another satisfied customer

i got a call from a friend of mine on friday 4-20-07 and he said there is a church in powhatan, manakin episcopal church, that had their hosting taken away. i believe it was a hostile take over between hosting companies and they fell through the cracks. most people don't know all the ends and outs of hosting, domains, user names and passwords and such. that's where we come in....

in the middle – part three

i interviewed at places like the martin agency, the stienrich group, circuit city, many places. i remember interviewing at the stienrich group and they told me to work on my portfolio and come back and they'd consider me. i didn't bring any graphic design tools with me so i went to the art deptartment art store and bought some supplies. then for about 3 days i went to the public...

in the middle – part two

i packed my bags (my truck) and hit the road. i drove to my aunts house just outside of atlanta, ga and spent the night there then the next morning drove to a phone booth out in the middle of a tobacco field in the middle of nowhere amelia, va as instructed by my college friend i was going to stay with til i got a job. after driving all...

Virginia Tech

i don't really have much to say about the murders at Virginia Tech...I'm almost speechless. it's just really sad...the whole thing. even though i don't know anyone that goes there it's really sad this happened...who's to blame? i don't think this could have been stopped. things happen. there's not one thing that could have prevented this. it's many things and things we have no control over. but one thing i...

rules on domain transfers

do you want to change hosts and or transfer your domain name before it expires? well, you better read the rules because if you wait too long or don't change at the right time, you could find your site off-line for a couple of days. a few years ago our client's domain could be transferred without our knowledge. client's could be solicited about the renewal of their domain and under...

in the middle – part one

after moving back to my parents house (from "in the beginning - part two") to regroup, i collected all of my resources and picked where do i want to live. long story short, virginia. i had been to virginia before when i was on a boy scout contengient to the 1981 national scout jamboree in fort hill virginia and also i had a childhood friend that lived in amelia virginia....

in the beginning – part one

after i graduated in 1986 from delta state university in cleveland mississippi with a bachelors degree in fines arts in commercial design and printmaking (before macintosh, as we know it today), i got my first job as a graphic designer at gulf publishing company (mississippi coastal newspaper) in gulfport, mississippi. there i did layout and design of newspaper ads by hand (no computers had mouses back then, all code...computers for me...

in the beginning – part two

after being "temporarily" layed off from the sun herald, i regrouped and got a job with a small printer in ocean springs, mississippi just down the road from gulfport. there i was the graphic designer and the owner sold his services based on that he had a graphic designer on staff which was unheard of at the time. no printer had graphic designers on staff. that was a dead end...

i thought i’d died and gone to heaven

we recently had a company get together for staff birthdays. of course i suggested i would bring chick-fil-a. i love chick-fil-a especially the nuggets. i'd like to get a franchise, i love them so much. when i was carrying this huge bag of 120 nuggets to my truck, i thought i'd died and gone to heaven.