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Sarasota Computer Repair

After purchasing my new 24″ IMAC from apple Saturday I decided now was the perfect time to upgrade my workspace overall and ditch my bulk Desktop Test Machine that was used in order to test cross browser compatibility on windows based browsers.

My search started at the Sarasota Best Buy on Bee Ridge Rd where I went to purchase a copy of windows XP and VMWare fusion, so i can run…

Development Bundle

Time and time again I get the questions from clients and colleges:

“What software do you use?”

So, in an effort to halt repetition and increase efficiency, here is the my official answer.

I use a few different programs. It’s important to understand that I do use an Apple IMac as my main development computer.

I run the following development software on the IMac:

Photoshop CS4

This is my favorite graphics editing software. I have…

Hostgator makes HUGE mistake

After having a host gator account for a little more than an year I go to load up my website www.o5media.com as I always do to gaze at it’s beauty.

To my surprise the site did not load, I got an error saying “Connection could not be establish”, the usual error you get when your internet isn’t connected, so I loaded up trusty ‘ol google.com and it worked fine so I…

Working Locally VS Online

So which is better? Developing online or on a local web server?

Often I get the question of whether I like to working locally or online, while in the end they both have their advantages and disadvantages I prefer a combination of both.

It really depends on (2) things:

1 – Type of Project

Obviously if the project is very small fix or addition to a current site it only makes sense to…

Joomla Template Experience

Recently I have taken on a large template project on the joomla framework.

I have had some contact with joomla in the past version 1.0x and before, but never with the new 1.5 version. The 1.5 system is amazingly advanced and is a very powerful system. I wouldn’t use it for a small blog site (I would use wordpress) but it is excellent for large scale projects where you need flexibility.…

First time in Adobe After Effects

Adobe after effect is a very neat piece of software. It is one of the industry leaders for post production video effects and touch up work.

I have just recently purchased a copy and decided to mess around with it. The program seems to have a massive learning curve, you will find yourself spending hours fishing through the countless features and options.

AETUTS and Video CoPilot both have amazing tutorials on how…

Jquery Prepend Elements to DOM

I decided to write this article because a few months back I didn’t know how to do this and I finally have some free time so I’m going to quickly explain it in a video tutorial and for those who don’t have speakers or don’t understand English i’m posting it below in text.

Video Tutorial (more of an explanation)

Jquery Ajax Append Data Explained from joel beasley on Vimeo.

Video Example of Result

Jquery Append/Prepend Elements…

Redesign almost completed.

We have been redesigning our website from a “blog style” site to a true company layout.

We have added much more information such as case studies, so the effects of our efforts can be accurately measured. We have also added a marketing section to display the different marketing services we offer. Last, but surly not least a section to explain our webdesign workflow.

We will continue to add more content and information so we…

Changing Servers

Got a new server today!

All of the sites we do switched from a shared 1.3 ghz 256mb single core intel server to a massive 2.66 ghz 4gb Quad-Core fully dedicated.

I didn’t realize what an improvement the sites would have on a dedicated server. Load times are cut in half and everything is consistent.

With a shared server I would constantly have a load time of 30-45 seconds every one out of…

Google Maps Static Service

Today I found out about an amazing service from google. The google Maps Static API.

The challenge/problem:

I have a client I am building a site for that has many county and city pages. I needed to add a much location specific content, design elements, etc to each of the county/city pages.

I had noticed when you google “Sarasota, FL” that google has a nice static map, so i thought i would type…