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If you love Ella Fitzgerald’s music, then you are in for a special treat.

Hot on the heels of their Sheldon performance, “Ella’s Radio” performs September 21 at Clayton’s cabaret hotspot – Finale — in 7:30 and 9:30 shows. Starting with A Tisket, A Tasket, “Ella’s Radio” performs your favorite Ella Fitzgerald songs, including Love is Here to Stay, Summertime, Oh Lady Be Good, A Fine Romance, and many more. Irene Fox, Barbara Parker Helmer, Ed Goodman, and Art Schwartz recreate the magic that was Ella. Beverly Condray conducts Henry Smith, David Troncoso, and Kevin Gianino.

$20 tickets are available at All ticket $20 though ticketmaster.com

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Presented by St Louis Charity PerformancesInc. – a 501(c)(3) charity

We are currently working on an interface design for an application currently being developed by St Louis based MyKnowit.com. The look feel of the interface is controled by style sheets ( CSS) giving the interface a skin functionality ..applying a different style sheet will result in a different look/feel.

It happens to us all, we call a consumer company whether it be a credit card company or a computer company and our quest to talk to a real person is thwarted by intricate automated phone systems.
Did you know that to bypass the Dell automated phone system (800‑624‑9897) you can press “0” at each prompt and get to talk to a real person?!

A whole database of these “secret codes” can be found on a database at GetHuman

Here at Indigo Image our web design team can always be contacted directly without any of those annoyed automated systems!

Over the last week or so I have been bombarded with “spoof” emails which claim to have been sent to me but have been returned. All of these emails have had attachments infected with viruses. I have the situation under control now but thought I would write today about a few simple steps you can take to protect yourself aginst spam….particularly those with have virus attachments.

1. Use anti virus software
Install anti virus software and have it set up to scan all incoming messages to your computer. This is how I caught the troublesome messages I have been recieving. It is important to keep the virus defintions up to date to ensure you are protected against the newest threats.

2. Use your web email filtering
You can easily configure your web email to “junk” unwanted emails. Most web email accounts have filters to sort messages with attachtments.. blocking EXE, COM, PIF, SCR, VBS, SHS, CHM and BAT file types will take care of messages with many known viruses. You can also apply filters wfor particular words or from specific domains. By adjusting my filters this week I have ensured my “spoof” emails are immediatley deleted and do not get downlaoded to my local machine.

3. Use a firewall
You can get free firewall fron Zone Alarm

4.Stay up to date with software patches
Configure your computer so this is done automatically.

5. Back up data regularly.
If the worse happens and you do get infected with a virus your files are safe.

A little off track for a blog entry today but I can not let the 100th birthday of my Great Uncle Dai go without a mention.

He celebrated yesterday with a party in a pub with 200 guests including local TV stations.

Uncle Dai is a keen gardener and puts his good health down to remaining busy, eating lots of fruit and having a spoonful of Black Mountain honey every day!
View a TV news Interview here

An important element of web site management is keeping the content fresh. In our case, we frequently update our portfolio to reflect our projects and showcase a recently completed site on our home page as a “featured project”

Fresh content obviously has advantages for returning visitors …giving them new information to read and digest. But fresh content is also something that the search engine appreciate too! A site which is regularly updated is going to rank better than a one which is never updated.

That said check out our web site design and graphic art portfolio which has been updated today.

As a web designer the internet is my friend!

I came across a wonderful concept yesterday at www.freecycle.org. Their mission is to build a worldwide gifting movement that reduces waste, saves precious resources & eases the burden on our landfills while enabling our members to benefit from the strength of a larger community.

In short one man’s junk is another man’s treasure. If you have something you no longer want/need post it to one of their many groups and if anybody wants it they come and collect. If on the other hand you after anything from lawnmower parts to a flat bed scanner surf through the offers and see what’s out their.

It is a gift network!

It is a well known fact that the irish celebrate St patrick day and this is a celebration that has been embraced by most Americans.

But did you know that there are three other celebrations?

The English celebrate St George’s Day, The Scottish, St Andrews day.

Today is St Davids day and is celebrated by the Welsh. Children will wear traditional welsh costumes to school and it is common to wear a daffodil pinned to your lapel. The daffodil is the national flower of Wales. Design yourself with the color of spring!

If you are considering an advertising campaign one of the most important considerations is to concetrate your efforts so that your target audience is exposed to your endeavours.

I came across a novel advertising opportunity yesterday… and while not offering good exposure to our target audience, it could be just what you are looking for your next advertising campaign.

A couple of english student are looking for sponsorship to finance a year of travel. On their web site www.sponsormytshirt.com you can place a bid to sponsor their T shirts. The winning bidder will have their T shirt design worn 24 hours a day 7 days a week during their world travels!

It seems these two chaps enjoy the odd beer, so if your target audience are beer drinkers and bar frequenters this may be the advertising campaign for you!

As a designer my inspiration come from many avenues and today when, here in St Louis we experinced one of those “luxury winter days” when you can forget your coat, my thoughts turned to the weather.

Weather can act as a great inspiration for designers. Think of those stormy days when the sky is purple with rage but a single ray of sunshine can make trees appear vibrant green. A classic St Louis icestorm leaves a million prisms in the trees.

One of my favorite pieces of work was done during a snow storm. It was a vibrant web site with high energy graphics which seem to literally fly out of my mouse..was it the weather??!!