Information Technology That Creates Value
STRATEGIC • BUSINESS DRIVEN • HANDS-ON
Stern Data Solutions has broad experience in applications of technology and strategic planning and can provide a number of services for you or your company, including website development, consulting and strategic planning. Do you have a CIO? Stern Data Solutions, Inc. can be your CIO for a single project or for the long-term.
Next time you're tempted to create a button using your favorite graphics tool and some javascript to swap images on a hover and click, stop. It's really easy to create a button with CSS the CSS Button Generator. Check out the buttons on Great Harvest's home page. It's just text and CSS. Once you've defined the class and put it into the site's style sheet, creating a button is as easy as this:
<a class="myButton" href="http://www.sterndata.com/target.html">Button Text</a>
Is your website useful to your vistors, both human and non-human? You can spend a lot of time and money optimizing your website for search engines and making it friendly for your human visitors. There are books, tutorials, and videos. Ultimately, it comes down to just six things that are important when you build a website.
Today was a busy day. I was working on six different projects for two different clients. Nothing is unstarted and nothing is done; it's all a work in progress. How can I keep track of it all? Toggl.
I've been using Toggl for free for almost a year now. I get enough value from it that I upgraded to the "pro" version.
Google has just released mod_pagespeed for the Apache web server. Mod_Pagespeed automatically speeds delivery of web pages by optimizing HTML, combining and caching CSS and JavaScript, and automatically managing and adjusting cache times for relatively static elements. Web developers can concentrate on building good sites. Let the system figure out how to optimize it.
Dear ENG member:
I hope you enjoyed the recent workshop about online presence optimization at ENG, the Executive Network Group of Greater Chicago. If you have questions about how to use my site about creating a branding web site, create one like it, or online branding in general, feel free to contact me, via email or in person at the next ENG meeting.
has broad experience in applications of technology and strategic planning and can provide a number of services for you or your company, including website development, consulting and strategic planning. Do you have a CIO? Stern Data Solutions, Inc. can be your CIO for a single project or for the long-term. 
