The "Public Trust" - Quaint? Or driving force?

Monday, April 22 2013 - , , , - 0 comments

Ruth Newman, activist and citizen journalist, attended the recent National Conference for Media Reform , held in Denver April 5-7. To learn more about the conference, visit the FreePress.net website. On returning, she acted on the momentum of the inspiration gained with a letter to the editors of the Courier-Journal, that was not accepted for publication. However, she is continuing to submit information and ideas to other media. I was happy to publish her letter, below. It was written in response to a C-J article, Auction Plans Worry TV , in the Business section of the April 13 C-J. Ruth explains...

Are you falling for the vanilla flavor in a CMS?

Saturday, February 09 2013 - - 0 comments

Why not rather be passionate? It's always disturbing when I'm relaxing at night to see a TV commercial for 1and1.com or another such competitor to DAY Communications' wonderful services. It's painful because-- what can they offer that I can't? Nothing! You just get an interface rather than a real face (consultation), a template rather than a custom design, and "wal-mart" server solutions rather than intelligent IIS hosting ( see details ). What does 1and1.com offer? They'll give you a cookie-cutter "professional web presence" with "high-quality designs...

Sources for Innovation

Thursday, January 03 2013 - , , - 0 comments

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal, "Why Innovation Won't Save Us," stated many discouraging facts about the US and its economic realities. (Dec 22, 2012, by Robert J. Gordon) This was helpful, because innovation is most successful when its practitioners STUDY a real-life situation in need of improvement. Mr. Gordon described and defined many aspects we need to analyze and ponder, and that in itself is a start. The maven of innovation, Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005), tirelessly wrote and lectured on the need for the systematic, managed, purposeful and organized search for changes...

FastZone welcomes Independent Piping, Inc.

Thursday, September 06 2012 - , , , - 0 comments

IPI is a union mechanical contractor serving Kentucky and Indiana. DAY Communications designed and produced advertising materials and their initial website a number of years ago. Their pocket folder is still useful so they chose to stick with a website design that complements their print materials when their site was recently updated. The updated site, hosted on FastZone.com, features "Fluid CSS design" to look good on all devices, and adds a Google Map. Please call on us to update your print materials or website....

Learn why Kentucky means business

Saturday, September 22 2012 - , , , - 0 comments

Have you read the 2012 Kentucky Economic Development Guide? It's online!...

Fluid Design in Demand

Tuesday, July 17 2012 - , , , , - 0 comments

The web never stands still! No sooner were mobile sites and pages the topic du jour than new ways to create them began to emerge. Fluid stylesheets allow a site to be viewed at its full width on a desktop browser, and conveniently "collapsed" to more narrow widths for devices with smaller screens. FastZone Welcomes Kentuckiana Nursing Service During the Spring of 2012 we designed some sites using this type of code. Below, the Kentuckiana Nursing website home page is shown full-width and at right, as it collapses with the masthead image shrinking to fit a new width. It is the same webpage...

Mobile Phone Emulator and Search Simulator

Friday, July 20 2012 - - 0 comments

Find out what your web pages look like on more than 50 mobile devices, including various models of T-Mobile, Nokia, iPhone, HP, Sony, Samsung, HTC, Blackberry and many others. Below is a composite of screen shots of six phones displaying the Kentuckiana Nursing Service website. This site has a fluid design . Call DAY, 502.458.5865, for assistance. We can also show you how your pages rank in three different search engines on various mobile devices....

Entrepreneurial Venture Launched!

Tuesday, July 17 2012 - , , , , - 0 comments

DAY Communications has created a new service and launched a website to present and provide it: EncouragerCare.com EncouragerCare offers the use of a name for health care and personal care companies by licensing agreement, plus a suite of marketing services. This offering is similar to a franchise, but much simpler and less expensive. Currently, we have one customer, EncouragerCare-Kentuckiana, a personal care business with a home office in Louisville, Ky. A related website for "encouragers" is EncouragerCare.net , whose subsites are not visible to the public. Also, for anyone with questions...

USE EXISTING TECHNOLOGY!

Tuesday, July 17 2012 - , , , , - 0 comments

The speed of Internet technological change requires a strategy to keep websites and apps up to date. What is your strategy? One option is to take advantage of technology that has been created by the Tech Giants. For example, WordPress and similar content management systems (CMS) offer free website code PLUS the free updates needed to stay current with the ever-changing worldwide web. Examples of WordPress and other CMSs running on FastZone are presented in feature posts on this blog, with some referenced on DAY Communications' home page slideshow . Other examples of free or very inexpensive...

Easy, fillable web forms

Tuesday, July 17 2012 - , , - 0 comments

Click here to download a form that will show you an example of the .pdf technology that allows users to 1. Download a form from a website 2. Fill it out and save it to their desktop (etc) 3. Attach it to an email or upload it to a website. There are some advantages to this option for electronic form creation and data collection. 1. Some forms are very complex and require a lot of time to create online. With this technology, a form can be created as a print file, then automatically converted to an online form with fillable fields. It's very fast and simple. Checkboxes, fields that calculate...