Magento Upgrade Relief

I had been actively avoiding upgrading a client’s Magento installation since the latest release 1.2 was announced a few weeks ago.  One of the biggest knocks against this platform is that the development team didn’t take standardizing function names very

TurboToad Pro Kicks Ass

Email Marketing just got even easier. It’s been a long time coming, but we’ve completed a major overhaul of our flagship email marketing tool, TurboToad Pro. We’ve drastically improved everything from our reporting tools to list management and the content

16toads Family Grows

On December 26, 2008, 16toads adopted a beautiful girl.

Simone is a Loggerhead Sea Turtle being rehabilitated at the George Sea Turtle Center on Jekyll Island. We are thrilled to welcome her to our family and look forward to the day when she will be fully

Hiking with “Segvec”

Last February, my wife and I attended the wedding of a good friend of hers on the island of Puerto Rico. The day after the wedding, the bride and groom had planned to take all of their close friends on a hike to El Yunque to experience Puerto Rico's famed

Extolling the Virtues of Blockbuster Museum Exhibitions in the Form of a Rant

There are two blockbuster cultural exhibits happening simultaneously in Atlanta. Tutankhamun: The Golden King and The Great Pharaohs and The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army.

Due to heavy promotion of these events over the past year, I went to both

Magento or Mag-er-pain-in-the-ento

Any way you look at them, whether from a design standpoint or a development standpoint, shopping cart platforms suck.

I recently implemented one of the newer entries into the shopping cart market, Magento, on a low-budget client project. I had done my forum

Bailing Out Excessive Greed

I've read dozens of articles lately about the proposed Congressional bailout of the Big Three auto makers. In each of the articles, the inevitable diatribe against auto unions and overpaid auto workers comprises the bulk of the word count.  What is

Bigelow Advertising turns to 16toads

Bigelow Advertising enlisted the help of 16toads Design to develop a Screen Saver for their client, Americold. With little to work with in the way of graphic assets, save for the Americold company logo and a background pattern, we were able to create a