Customer Experience and User Experience
I’ve had my share of great customer experience and terrible customer experience. I’ve also had my share of great user experience and terrible user experience. My thought process behind this article is to look at the great customer experiences that I’ve had, determine what it is that made them great, and apply those [...]PREVIOUS POSTS
The New WordPress 2.5
I’m a WordPress user and it’s nice to see the design changes that they’re bringing to WordPress in 2.5. Head on over and check it out. I can’t wait to make the upgrade. It may be a little while for me though. I’m trying to finish up a new design for stinkbug.net. [...]Recent Development Experiences
I’ve been hard at work the last couple of months working on a Content Management System for the company I work for. I’ve talked about Content Management Systems before and I’m sure the problems I’ve faced the last several weeks are problems that many web developers face everyday. If you’ve ever developed web [...]Re-building HiddenWord.org Using CakePHP
The one think I haven’t touched in a couple of months is HiddenWord.org. I’ve been so swamped with everything else that I just haven’t had time to give it much attention. I have some major redesigns lined up for it. A lot of the redesign issues address usability problems that I’ve noticed [...]Happy Thanksgiving!
Wow! It’s hard to believe that it’s already Thanksgiving and I haven’t posted anything since Halloween. The holidays are coming and I’m sure they’ll be gone before I know it. Here at the Thomas house we’re already trying to finish Christmas shopping early. I just now finished wrapping up a few gifts and last night [...]Happy Halloween!
I think I’ve carried this little tradition for the last 3 years or so. Every Halloween I post a few Halloween related links that I find note worthy. One link is always the same and this one is probably better then the one I posted last year. The first link is about the history of [...]The Search for a CMS
We’ve been looking for an open source Content Management System to develop on at my work place. Our main goal is take all our content and data and merge it all into one database so that we can share all of the data across multiple websites. Not only that, but we want to [...]Web Master Jam Session
I attended the Web Master Jam Session this weekend and thought I’d share some of the information. The first session was the keynote by Jarred Spool. The session was called “The Dawning Age of Experience”. He had some interesting points in his session. First of all, let me say that we’re [...]A New Logo
As many of you have probably already noticed, I never have completely upgraded my site to work correctly in IE 7. Even before IE 7 was out there were a few things that I never did like about the design of Stinkbug.net. The current design was the first design, with the exception of [...]AT&T Update
Well, after talking to AT&T they didn’t do anything about my bill. Supposedly in the quote they gave me they didn’t include my iPhone data plan and the activation fee. That was a bit misleading, but that was the problem. Should they have been honest with me and put all the charges [...]Welcome to Stinkbug.net!
Established in September of 2000, Stinkbug.net become the personal website of me, Justin Thomas. I started telling my story to the world by publishing what was going on in my life at the time, and thanks to blogging, was able to do it immediately. I also started posting photos of my life and broadcasting my life on a 24/7 webcam. The webcam is no more, because I recently got married, but the photo galleries and blog are still here.