Recently, I’ve been working on marketing to multiple countries at once and that’s required dealing with all kinds of cross-cultural differences.  For us it’s a zip code, for them it’s a postal code.  For this place it’s a state, over here it’s a province and over there it’s a prefecture.  One of the little details like this that I stumbled across that’s less-talked about is phone number format. 

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If you ever set up a Google Apps account without a secondary email (like I did recently for a domain), you may run into a situation where there’s basically no obvious way out.  There’s a “Can’t access your account?” link that looks like it might be helpful, but when you click it, it tells you to contact the administrator – but what if that’s you?

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For anyone who works in the Australian market it’s annoying to not have a way to view Australian content as if you’re surfing in Australia.  Sure, you can get a VPS and set up your own VPN, but this can be a relatively costly pain in the ass and it’s not technically feasible for many people. 

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When you’re moving a WordPress installation from one host to another it should go pretty smoothly, provided you haven’t hardcoded anything.  The database, though, does a little hardcoding of its own by writing the full URL at the beginning of certain post elements and in the options table.  Run these queries and everything will be fine:

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I’ve just gotten started with HostingBay and I’ve encountered a few things that make sense on their own, but which add up to give me slight pause about my choice.  Obviously I haven’t made a determination yet and their support has been very responsive, but I want to share info that’s not widely available so others can find it.  What are my concerns?

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Haven’t had much time to post lately, so I figured I’d throw up a couple of nuggets I’ve run across doing some wetwork.  The first involves the WordPress plugin WP Super Cache and transferring your WordPress install to a new server.

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In my capacity handling projects for clients, I deal with outsourcing groups and freelancers all over the world.  Every individual or group has different strengths and weaknesses and sometimes there are even cultural language tendencies that you recognize over time. 

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“I love the way that button looks!”
“!@@#$$#%#$%##@!!!!”
As pretty much everyone in web development knows, wireframing is a very handy way of communicating, quickly, the basic elements and layout of a final site to a client.  As a site architect or web designer or web developer or general nerd, you’re using a lot of built up knowledge about what’s going to happen between the application layer and the presentation layer when you wireframe something (especially if you’re doing buzzwordy agile development) …

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I love Frontline, it’s the only American television news program that reliably produces nothing but fantastic, documentary-style  journalism content.  Their latest episode, “Digital Nation” – which you can watch online anywhere in the world – is no exception. 

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I know this is the most obvious thing in the world, but while looking at a JustProto blog post I couldn’t figure out what the plus signs and minus signs were for next to pages in the project tree on the left-hand side.

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