Yearly Archives: 2013

How to Add Your Intervals iCalendar Subscription to Your Calendar Software

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The new iCalendar subscriptions from Intervals allow you to add your milestones, tasks, and notes to your favorite desktop or web-based calendar software. These instructions detail how to obtain the URL for your iCalendar subscription and add it to Google Calendar, Apple iCal, or Microsoft Outlook (2007 or later). A note about authentication The iCalendar URL […]

Tracking a Large Number of Tasks Online Using Milestones

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Regardless of what online software you are using as a task tracking system, you may find yourself juggling an overwhelming number of tasks. Fortunately, a little organization can go a long way.  In this example, we use our online task tracking software, Intervals, to manage and track tasks by grouping them into a milestone, pictured […]

Gauging Project Health Using Online Task Tracking Software

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Perhaps the greatest advantage to a team using online task tracking software is the increase in productivity from being able to quickly search, sort, and update tasks in a centralized manner, helping the entire team to collaborate more effectively. As these tasks begin to accumulate, the sheer number of tasks and their details can become […]

Who’s Not Tracking Their Time?

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The most obvious benefits of using online time tracking software are the ease of recording employee hours, generating productivity reports, and billing clients. As long as your team is logging in and tracking their time, the rest is relatively easy. Using the software is the easy part. The challenge is getting your team to adopt […]

PEBKAC is a Failure of UX Design

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And you’re ultimately responsible for it. Most web designers and developers are familiar with the term PEBKAC. It stands for Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair and is often used to describe a bug that was triggered or caused by user error, not the application itself. Developers sometimes have a laugh at the expense of […]

What do Lego and Web Development have in Common?

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This week is the 55th anniversary of  when Godtfred Kirk Christiansen patented the Lego brick in 1958. Such a simple concept would go on to define the toy industry, and most of our childhoods. I was, and still am, a Lego fanatic. Playing with Lego contributed heavily to my working in Web development. Now that […]

The Oft Forgotten Post-Launch Phase of Web Design and Development Projects

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Web design and development agencies have clearly defined processes for building and launching web sites. The process typically covers every phase of a web design and development project — from signing the contract to pushing the final web site live. I’ve seen creative naming conventions used for project phases; for example, Discover, Design, Develop, Deploy. […]