In this post, I discuss the three critical phases of site design that get us to the point of development and themeing. While the importance of these phases are sometimes overlooked, or discounted, each step is crucial to the success your website and marketing efforts. Overlooking or under planning in the initial phases of web design will lead to a mediocre website at best, or even complete failure to achieve your business goals.

It seems that everyone needs or wants a blog, but no one actually knows how it should actually look. What is the best way to architect a blog? Is there some sort of status quo or set of best practices we should be following?

For clarification, this is only referring to the data architecture of a blog roll, not the actual design - because we'd be here forever if it was.

Twitter is boss when it comes to gaining instant news from people or businesses you care about. But where do you find the people who are tweeting things that are worth reading?

Over the last several years, major interactive conferences have criss-crossed the country. Yet somehow Dallas is not a major destination for these events. I think we need to change that!