by charliezegers | Nov 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
We were proud to support the Tuckahoe Schools Foundation’s Casino Night fund-raiser at Leewood Country Club on November 4th. Attendees may have noticed ctzdesign.com as one of the sponsors of the bottle toss. (I confess, “bottle toss” turned out not...
by charliezegers | Nov 7, 2011 | Design, E-commerce, Non-profit, Uncategorized
Another example of our work with non-profit agencies, we built the web site for the Guilford Community Fund — a charitable organization that raises funds and distributes them to a wide range of worthy causes in Guilford, Connecticut. The site was recently...
by charliezegers | Jul 13, 2011 | Social Media, Uncategorized
One of the toughest… and most important… parts of running a small business is self promotion. If you’re in a service business (like, say, this one) or a content business (like several others I run) it becomes even more important, as the...
by charliezegers | Jul 11, 2011 | Uncategorized, WordPress
The 15th major release of WordPress hit the shelves this week. Well… the metaphorical shelves, anyway… would be sort of silly to download WordPress, burn it to a disk, put it in a box and then put it on a shelf in a store, especially as it’s...
by charliezegers | Jul 11, 2011 | Social Media, Uncategorized
If you pay any attention at all to such things, you’ve probably heard about Google’s rollout of the new “Google Plus” social network. And if you’ve followed some of the search giant’s other recent product releases (Google Buzz,...
by charliezegers | Jun 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
This post has everything. Entomology, math, web design, Lego… work in a Dungeons & Dragons reference, and you’d have nerd heaven. (I’d include a clip here, but there’s no one paragraph or two that would make any sense, taken out of context....
by charliezegers | Jun 1, 2011 | Services, Social Media, Uncategorized
Google has rolled out its answer to the ubiquitous “Facebook Like” and “Tweet This” buttons… the new +1 button. The +1 button will allow visitors to your site to recommend it to others, in a way that will be displayed in Google’s...
by charliezegers | May 28, 2011 | Uncategorized, WordPress
Ever downloaded a free WordPress theme from some random developer, install it, amd find all sorts of nasty links on your site? Eh… me neither. For the php inclined, here’s an excellent breakdown of what these trojan horse themes are up to, and how they do...
by charliezegers | May 20, 2011 | Social Media, Uncategorized
Internet guru Peter Shankman posted an interesting diatribe today about so-called “Social Media Experts” and why he’d never consider hiring a person billed as such. Social Media is just another facet of marketing and customer service. Say it with me....
by charliezegers | May 13, 2011 | Content, SEO, Uncategorized
This article from The Atlantic has been making the rounds among all my geek/writer/geeky writer friends. It’s no surprise that the ideas come quickly. After all, these people write clever headlines for a living. But the task has a new sense of urgency. If all...