How Close is Close?

If you're tired of being told why your designs cannot make it to the web, we need to talk.

Sure, there are special considerations when designing for the web just like with print, video or any other medium, but the restrictions are much fewer than your average code monkey would lead you to believe.

 
 

Services

  • Front-end coding 
    (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
  • Content Management
    System Integration
  • Web Visual Design
  • Turn-key site development
  • Site evaluation and consulting
 

Meet the Noggin

Meet the face behind the massive corporate entity that is Busy Noggin.

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My Dirty Little Secret

We all have our secrets. Hopefully, you will still want to work together after you find out mine.

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The Toolbox

These are the tools I use to build standards-compliant web sites that can be maintained by normal people.

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Taming the Web. One Site at a Time.

It is said that the first step to recovery is to admit you have a problem. So, don't be ashamed. Just say it. "I'm afraid of my website." Doesn't it feel good to finally get that out in the open?

It's ok, you are not alone. Besides, a little fear is understandable since websites can be mysterious, uncontrollable, demanding little beasts always needing more attention then you can give. Kind of like children except websites never grow up and move out on their own.

Managing a website can be a lesson in chaos theory. Feature lists grow, expectations of your site increase and just keeping up with the basic web technologies can be a full-time job.

Yet it is possible to tame your website--to finally master it instead of it mastering you. That's where I come in. Helping businesses and organizations get their sites up-to-date, under control and working for them.

In a nutshell, this is what I do: develop robust websites whose day-to-day content changes can be made directly by you without special software. Translation: You do not have to call a web designer every time you need to add a page, change a date or add a photo. Even non-technical users can make changes. You can find out more about how I do this in the "my approach" and "the toolbox" sections of this site.

 

Noggin's Notebook

This is my little corner to chronicle my adventures in all things web including CSS, HTML, TYPO3, PHP and whole host of other acronyms.

Go to Noggin's Notebook

Find TypoScript Properties Quickly

I often find myself needing to look up the properties of a particular  TypoScript object. Of course, I search through TSref and when I need the  details of the object it is great. But if ...

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Report on T3CON09-Dallas

11 Countries, 4 continents, 20 states. A short report on T3CON09-Dallas

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Photoshop Text Wrap: Faking Text Wrap In Photoshop

When mocking up a web design today, I ran into the need to represent an image floated inside text. When doing this for print work it is just an easy matter of wrapping the text around the image. ...

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