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

16toads accepted into the ExpressionEngine Pro Network

We are very pleased to shout that 16toads has recently been accepted into the ExpressionEngine Pro Network.

We found Expression Engine after a long and frustrating search for a CMS platform we felt comfortable recommending to our clients. After plodding

Extinct Primate ReDiscovered

Researchers trolling the lush mountaintop rain forest of a remote Indonesian island recently rediscovered a primate long thought to be extinct.

The Pygmy Tarsier is one of the world's smallest and, now, rarest primates.

I can fully appreciate why the three

Perennial (v2) CMS Launches

We have spent the past couple months converting the web site we originally designed and developed for Perennial Properties [three years ago] into a dynamic CMS-driven web platform.  Perennial's vastly improved web site will provide our long-standing client