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Make Your Small Business BIG with Web Marketing
There’s no better time than now to put the web to work to help you grow and support your business! Web marketing is a powerful marketing tool, but steps need to be taken in a logical order. Republished from the Pacific Coast Business Times,9/19/08
Sending tons of emails in Ruby on Rails with ar_mailer
So you've had some success using sendmail to send one-off emails like order receipts, password reset confirmations and welcome letters. But what happens when you need to be able to send 5,000 newsletter emails to your entire contact database?
Recurring tasks in Ruby on Rails using runner and cron jobs
If you have a website that has a need for nightly database maintenance, Rails provides a very simple solution for interacting with your application on a recurring schedule. It's a script called "runner" and is amazingly simple to use.
What's wrong with Web 2.0?
Web 2.0 was a term coined a few years back to define how the web was changing, but somewhere it went wrong.
Easily show charts and graphs alongside statistics
I don't see too many people taking advantage of the Google Chart API. In just a single image tag, you can add a slick looking chart or graph to your page, right next to an otherwise boring looking table of statistics.
Making your web photo galleries rock with Lightbox
Don't just link each of those thumbnails to the full version of the photo in a new browser window. That's not very suave, and you know it! You've probably seen some awesome CSS-based large image popups when clicking thumbnails. It's probably Lightbox.
Useful design resources.
The web can be a wonderful resource to learn and get inspired, but it's also an endless wasteland of garbage and bad information. Here's a short list of design-focused sites that I put in the former category.
