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Quake Creative

About The Project We were approached by a start-up design network company created by a well-seasoned advertising veteran to help get their self-designed site up on the web and needed a Content Management System to help them self-manage their site. Scope Develop the client’s site based on their initial designs, putting the management in the [...]

True Love Must Be Priority

About The Project When speaker John Matthew approached us about building a website to help him share his experience with developing a Life Practice, we jumped at the chance to help make John successful at sharing his story. Scope Create a site that allowed the speaker to share his experience, excite his audience, and help [...]

Chamberlain Performing Arts

About The Project We were approached by the client to create a new, client editable site for the organization which had previously had a site that was not easy to update, had become stagnant, and eventually was taken down. Scope Create a fresh, client updatable site that communicates events, seasonal performances and performance venues to [...]

DFW Synthetic Oil

About The Project While most agencies wouldn’t be as excited to take on a project in the automotive industry that is a e-commerce site, we were enthusiastic to get to work with such a project. This client was in an industry that didn’t receive much attention to information design, product beauty or relationship care that [...]

Google Wave: Wave Hello?

I previewed Google Wave today. Watched the video and viewed the screenshot. You can even read about it in Google’s Blog. It’s too early to tell if this is going to be a ground breaking, but to me, it’s too cramped, cluttered, and well, could be better designed. What do you think?

10 WordPress Must-Have Plugins

Role Manager Useful if you plan on having multiple users on the blog. You can customize access by user role. http://www.im-web-gefunden.de/wordpress-plugins/role-manager/ TinyMCE Advanced This adds Microsoft Word type of editing tools to write your posts. You can customize what buttons you have on there this plugin is golden. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinymce-advanced/ Register Plus This one is strictly [...]

Deep In The Jungle Of Digital

Every day the digital jungle grows more and more as new start-ups come to life offering new services for consumers and new opportunities for advertisers. New services offering a twist on old, old services offering new expanded features and a wide array of mashups. It’s a world where some things are co-dependent and others are [...]

How to give good feedback

Whether you’re a creative collaborating on a project or a client giving feedback, giving good feedback and critiquing well are important to the development of a project. Good feedback and critiquing starts with internal conversation. Ask yourself questions like, “What do I like about this?”, “What do I dislike?”, “Why do I like/dislike this?”. Stepping [...]

Taking Your Site Mobile

Taking your website mobile is something very relevant today for more and more people. How do you know if your site should have a mobile friendly version and offer special mobile perks? Though you can format your website specially for mobile browsers, doesn’t mean that’s all you should consider putting in the mobile version of [...]

Vimeo, a better YouTube.

Vimeo, a user-submitted video hosting and broadcasting service is a fantastic service with more options and a slicker, more appealing interface, and quality submissions at every turn. I ventured to the Vimeo site to spend some time getting to know it for an upcoming project, and found myself watching for quite a while. There are [...]