Author Archives: Dan Moriarty

freelance web designer in Minneapolis. Design and building sites for small businesses, mostly using open-source tools and web standards for CSS-based layouts. Ecommerce, content-management, blogs, and all that.

Ecommerce (open-source)

There seems to be a number of open-source ecommerce packages gaining in popularity this past year, upgrading and coming out of beta. Just as Drupal and Joomla are dominating the open-source CMS market (along with one of my faves, CMS Made Simple), the ecommerce arena may soon have a few dominant players. (Or maybe not.) [...]

Enough With the Hyphens

As I spellcheck a project proposal this morning, I’m struck by the number of hyphens in our web words that need to go away. Most of us have gone along with “email” and “online” now, instead of “e-mail” and (the worst) “on-line.” But some others exist, and I think it’s time for a revolution.  Ok, [...]

Strange looking cylinders

USI Wireless is starting to infiltrate my Minneapolis neighborhood, putting up their strange-looking (and ugly) wireless transmitters under the streetlights on my block. Anyone using their service yet, or planning to? I’m loving the “free” Internet at my local coffee shops and libraries, but this could free me up to starting working anywhere at a [...]