Mark J. Reeves | C77 Studios | Web development, marketing, architecture | Boston/Salem, MA

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November 15, 2007 Almost there, Safari

Trials and tribulations of trying to use Safari full-time.

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October 30, 2007 Who’s writing about office chairs?

Trying to find a good office chair...or just an opinion on them.

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October 12, 2007 A mishmash of recent updates

Latest news for my neglected blog.

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September 27, 2007 Wanted: Freelance XHTML/CSS Developer

It’s time to hire some help around here.

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September 09, 2007 I got an iPhone

A few days ago, at the new price of $399, I got one.

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September 03, 2007 .MOBI: Making Strides

The Internet’s just information. Mobile’s the next medium.

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August 28, 2007 C77 Studios on the iPhone

Your favorite site, optimized for the iPhone.

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August 28, 2007 WEBDEV: Screen Scraping with .NET 2.0

If you have permission, and a valid reason, to do so, scraping content off another site is easy in .NET 2.0.

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August 21, 2007 EE: Quick URL redirects using segment variables

Catch and redirect to an updated URL on your site using ExpressionEngine’s segment variable.

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August 16, 2007 Automate your manual Gantt chart in Excel

Take some of the effort out of an Excel-formatted Gantt chart.

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August 15, 2007 EE: Aggregating content using Magpie and ExpressionEngine

How to use Magpie in ExpressionEngine to pull your blogs together into one (NOT steal others’ blogs!).

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July 29, 2007 Network Solutions has lost my business

Premium rates are one thing. Asinine practices are another.

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July 10, 2007 WEBDEV: Scalable, CSS-based page design

Creating pages that scale with the user’s font size, and other CSS effects.

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July 09, 2007 WEBDEV: Build an option list using SQL

Using SQL to generate HTML option lists.

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July 09, 2007 WEBDEV: Convert an option list to SQL with TextMate and Regular Expressions

Using Regular Expressions to convert HTML strings to SQL Inserts.

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June 11, 2007 On Adobe AIR and the iPhone SDK

Do we need another web? Or should we learn to leverage what works?

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June 07, 2007 Niche-y

Targets and agency relationships are shrinking.

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June 06, 2007 37signals asks: What’s your cookbook?

A great way to think about your content strategy.

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June 05, 2007 Google’s PageRank Revealed

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June 04, 2007 Serious About Online Marketing? You’re in the Database Business.

Every Web 2.0 company is a database company. So is everyone marketing online.

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June 01, 2007 WEBDEV: URL underscores and IIS6+

Coding around a Microsoft security “feature.”

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May 31, 2007 What’s Coming for the Web

Cell phones and offline access.

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May 26, 2007 Opportunities Missed (A Call to Architectural Firms)

Architectural firms have great works to show, and a great medium in the Web to do so, but too often fail to take full advantage.

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May 25, 2007 What’s New at C77 Studios

Quite a bit, actually.

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April 22, 2007 Small Business Marketing (and The Web)

Guy Kawasaki recommended Duct Tape Marketing: The World’s Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide along with a distilled top ten list from author John Jantsch. I’ve gone ahead and ordered the book (yet to read it obviously), but here are a few thoughts on some of the top tips.

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April 20, 2007 Are You Living Your Brand?

If you haven’t noticed already, orange is a consistent theme for C77 Studios.

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April 19, 2007 On Responsible Web Design, Flash

Web Standards guru Jeffrey Zeldman blogs about an unfortunate site design he recently encountered, and I blog about the solution.

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April 13, 2007 9 pregnant women…

...Can’t a baby in 1 month make.

On Apple’s OS X “Leopard” delay.

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March 17, 2007 On Responsible Web Development

A solid foundation will take you much farther than fancy window dressings.

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February 24, 2007 Something we’re working on: MHNE

I secured the domain name ModernHomesNewEngland.com in 2006 to establish a regional forum for those interested in modern architecture, green living, and prefab construction techniques.

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