Smack Happy Design

There are plenty of hosting companies to chose from out there. One of them is Lunarpages. I’ve been using them for at least five years now.

They have great webmaster tools and as a person who doesn’t know a heck of a lot about hosting they make it extremely easy for me to add on new web sites, add email accounts and a plethora of other things I don’t even take advantage of.

The few times I’ve had to contact support they’ve gotten back to me in a reasonable time frame and with a good solution to the problem.

If you’re looking for hosting I highly recommend Lunarpages. If you’re looking for both hosting and a web site, I recommend contacting me!

In the design business the occasion often arises where you have to send a very large file. I consider anything over 14MB or so to be a large file. When I need to send a file of this size I look to DropSend. Its extremely easy to use and the free account offers pretty decent options. They also allow you to store your files.

There are a few other sites for sending large files as well. Some of them are YouSendIt, SendThisFile, and Megaupload. But I’ve found that DropSend has the best to offer.

When I begin a project for a client I like to build up a lot of imagery that relates to the task at hand. One great resource for gathering images is iStockphoto.com. I browse through the photos using keywords and save them to a lightbox specifically for the project. The best feature of lightboxes is that I can then share them with the client, and they can let me know which images they want me to use. Here’s an example of my “monkey book” lightbox.