Next week I’ll be heading to the glitz and glamor of Las Vegas! Well it will be for a business trip as efotolab.com will have a booth and on display at the WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photograpers International) Trade Show, March 17 through March 19 at the Paris Hotel.
While I’m sure there will be some play time in store, this is a big show and presence for efotolab.com. It is our first west coast swing and as a player in the online photo lab space, we needed to take this plunge. The audience attending this show hits our sweet spot and as we continue to gain traction in this space, I truly believe our attendance at this show will make a huge difference.
Knowing that the WPPI audience is our target market means that our competition, along with all of the latest trends, will be at the show as well. It is always nice to see what your competitors are up to and with some luck we will be able to forge a few new key relationships with vendors.
Hopefully we don’t have too much idle time on our hands though.
I’m gonna say it again.
Mar 6
Posted by Mike in Business, Commentary, Design, Development | No Comments
Jesus! You would think that the single landing page that I designed over the weekend would be a snap to code. I tried to keep it very simple as I knew I needed to get the site for our VerdéBook out there this week. I had the overall framework down in about an hour. I was just tweaking and fine tuning things a bit and adding a nice ajax slide show type viewer into the overall layout, when I started to check out what things were looking like in IE, Safari and Opera (as I was already viewing it in FireFox).
Much to my chagrin it didn’t look all that great. In fact, my browser was actually displaying things differently than the same exact browser on another machine, running the same OS! I just don’t get it. I really love the idea of keeping compliant with my code, but does it really need to be that difficult?
I know that I am no code jockey so if anyone knows of a good cheat sheet out there so I don’t have to second guess my hacks or code, please let me know.
Tags: Browsers, CSS, Design, VerdeBook, Web Development, XHTML