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In its simplest form, hosting a website just means two things. 1) Providing a server to house the files that make your website work, and 2) providing internet bandwidth that allows your website to be seen by the rest of the world. The majority of the 100,000^[1] new sites that went up today, were done in a “shared” environment where there may be hundreds of other websites on the same server as yours.

Oklahoma is a pretty small environment in which to run a Web Design & Development shop. Having been around in some form for the last 25 years gives us an edge in that department as we have lots of history, and track record to fall back upon, but that doesn't mean that some of our competitors don't do equally well. The difference, I think, is how we go about keeping our customers.

So we have all sorts of things going at any one time around here.  Personally I have a ton to do, so I often find myself working from home during evenings and weekends.  My personal project lately has been a service that we're hoping to roll out later this  year, but I'm using Drupal 6 (the newest version) and as such, there's a bit more learning curve on it.  However, with that learning curve comes new abilities, and new power that we previously did not have.  This project is a great example of some of those new abilities in action, and I'm hoping

So the design world is all a-buzz with talk of IE8 passing the acid2 test. As a standards junkie, I had to see for myself, and yup... sure enough it seems to pass, but if I don't sound thrilled, let me explain why.

So, for any of you who've come to one of our Lunch and Learns, chances are you've seen the slide where I mention that I'm on 3 different Advisory Board Committees at Francis Tuttle Technology Center.  Today was one of those meeting days where the committee gets together and discusses current industry issues, where the industry is going, and what things will get a student hired in Oklahoma.