Google Maps Street View has added Raleigh to the elite list of cities you can see from an eyeline perspective instead of the rooftop satellite view. Our entire office came to a grinding halt in productivity yesterday when we realized we could navigate the streets without getting out of our chairs. “Hey, go to my [...]

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T Magazine, aka New York Times Style Magazine, finally has a look that matches its content: fashion and style. It’s full of juicy images against a stark white backdrop. It’s a pretty flashy (no pun intended) site, with left to right navigation as opposed to top to bottom. My eyes start to cross a [...]

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So I was at a friend’s house talking about this blog experiment, and she agreed to help me get my ideas all down into some sort of plan.
Search 1, Google.
“blog success”
results: included a disconcerting yet fascinating series of phrases like “monitize” and “optimize” and “leverage the power of the internet.”
Search 2, Google.
“writing a business plan?”
It [...]

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We have finally finished our migration to a web host who can handle our very large traffic numbers! We have learned a lot in these first couple weeks of the blog. We did a ton of research on web hosting and shared hosting verses dedicated servers. Ultimately, we decided on the web host “Web Faction” [...]

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Fellow Designbox member and Onionhead Monster creator, Paul Friedrich, along with Bojangle’s expert, Bryan Pack, are currently attempting one entire day at Bojangles - from the moment Bojangles opens (5:30am) until it closes (10pm) or they are asked to leave. They decided on the Western Blvd Bojangles (Raleigh) because of the awesome wireless reception. Check [...]

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