Daniel Watrous

It’s hard to say that number of times that I’ve told my clients to choose strong passwords.  No matter how many times I do, it’s just hard work to choose good passwords because they’re so hard to remember.  Well, as a  reminder to them I wanted to point out a great article I read about […]

The video below is a recording of a session I presented on the campus of Boise State University as a presenter at the 2010 Boise code camp.  It covers the entire process for building a membership website, including how to make a plan that will maximize your conversion rate, even before you spend a minute […]

A few weeks ago I posted a PDF and a write up about how to create a two level membership website.  Tomorrow I’ll be presenting a live one hour session at Boise State University as part of this years Code Camp.  The focus will be membership websites and will extend much of what I wrote […]

I did several live internet broadcasts at the beginning of the year for one of my membership sites. It’s been about two years since I did my first broadcast and these went off a lot better than my original broadcast. Since I have the technology stack worked out fairly well at this point I wanted […]

I’ve had a few clients ask me for a very simple tutorial about creating a new post in WordPress 2.9. After telling them to just head over to YouTube and follow the videos there, I finally went myself and looked for a few tutorials to send along as links. I searched for “wordpress 2.9 video […]

Screen capture video is a big thing these days, and it’s getting bigger.  There are a few reasons that creating screen capture videos is so popular.  Some that are interesting to me include: Fast to produce and deploy No cameras, lighting, extensive editing, color correction, etc. For software/websites it’s the most effective way to illustrate […]

One skill in which I’ve always felt horribly deficient is sketching.  In fact, for years I thought I wasn’t creative because most people say creative in reference to artistic ability, not other forms of creativity.  Turns out I can be creative from time to time, but not artistically. That’s really too bad since one of the projects […]