Matt is a pastor, businessman, theology student, & massive geek.

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  • Color Schemes from Photographs

    One of the hardest parts of graphic design for me is choosing a color scheme. That’s why I usually stick to grays with a highlight color. (mattandnancy.org). It all gets a lot easier when you remember that God is the ultimate painter. A quick way to a good color scheme? Take the color scheme from…

  • Search Engine Optimization

    One of my hobbies is Search Engine Optimization. I am trying to keep this page in the top 5 on a google search for “Heerema”. I am competing with Heerema Group, an international engineering firm, and Heerema Company, another large American engineering company. Isn’t ironic then, that I ignore one of the major things google…

  • Renegade Redesign

    There was an interesting article in Wired News yesterday: Changing the Face of Web Surfing. Though I like the title “renegade redesign” better. Nutshell: Web designers (like me) who care about the fact that everyone should be able to see a Web site, are creating accessible versions of web sites they use that aren’t currently…

  • Internet Explorer ‘too risky’ says Businessweek

    I’m about a week behind in posting this (I got lazy), but I thought I’d put it here for posterity. Businessweek columnist Stephen Wildstrom says that Internet Explorer is too risky to use In late June, network security experts saw one of their worst fears realized. Attackers exploited a pair of known but unpatched flaws…

  • Not Our Home Sidebar Project

    I have and idea. It probably isn’t original or all that innovative, but here goes: Objective: create a script that will organize the “blog roll” on NotOurHome.com (or any other site using that set of links) by whoever posted most recently. Also, it will only include a person on the link list if they have…

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