Business: Craig McLachlan, Who Knew?

This week, Boxcutters featured Craig McLachlan as their guest, in the process providing a great example of the advantages of podcasting.

Business: Assigning roles and sticking to them

Much like everything else that needs doing when starting up, it is the most important thing to do. Books about building a new business are full of suggestions about the most important thing to do. I suppose listing something and just saying it’s a helpful tool for getting the business on track is just not strong enough for the self-help book market.

Behind the Websites: Charging for themes? Do the right thing!

Of all the Wordpress functions, I think wp_register_script, wp_register_style, wp_enqueue_script, and, wp_enqueue_style are the most elegant.

Business: MYOB Invoices: Building Brand Identity

We asked our accountant what accounting software package we should use. This is why we went with MYOB and how we’re dealing with the headaches.

Behind the Websites: Partying like it’s 1999

Within a couple of months of writing that I prefered my own base JavaScript file to an exisiting framework, I was a convert to jQuery. Why the turnaround?

Business: Expectations go both ways

Recently we had a potential client ask for a quote for a database application. The price we gave the client and the amount they were expecting to pay were vastly different. Their budget was almost one-twentieth the cost of the application.

So who got it wrong and how did it end up so completely out of proportion?

Business: Genesis of a Giant

Deciding to start Soupgiant resulted from a simple conversation – actually two simple conversations.

Business: Names Will Never Harm You

Once we decided to go into business together, there was one definite first thing we needed to: Come up with a name.

Business: How to get 4.3 stars for customer service!

I’m about to give a positive review to Soupgiant’s host, QuadraHosting, due to their customer service, despite some major technical problems in recent months. This leads to one question: Am I being too nice?

Behind the Websites: Including WordPress’s comment-reply.js (the right way)

Since threaded comments were enabled in Wordpress 2.7, most themes check if the visitor is browsing either a page or a post and adds the JavaScript required for threaded comments if they are.

I prefer a slight variation