What’s Fresh in Website Design & Development

Alex is talking about...

The Simplest, Fastest Path to Higher Returns From Your Search Engine Marketing Efforts by Dave Pye and Richard Banfield, 2007 Free Download Like many of my peers my SEO/SEM inception began when I started a retail website. That first foray has long since gone the way of the Dodo, but…

All Blog Posts

All Video Posts

All Image Posts

http://www.freshtilledsoil.com May 12, 2009 by Dan Allard
No Comments

Intuit QuickBooks Online Redesign Review

Whenever I look at a website or web application the first impression I receive always leaves a lasting mark. If the site has a funky color scheme or if I found the site using a search engine and the page it directs me to does not have the information easily…

General

May 5, 2009 by Alex S
No Comments

How to Create a Successful Landing Page

Creating a successful landing page is critical to ensuring that any product is intelligently marketed on the web. Establishing the appropriate page layout and design may seem to be a subtle detail but can actually have measured influence over a potential customer’s decision to invest in your product. Your…

Web Design

May 4, 2009 by Richard
No Comments

Balancing Communication and Uninterrupted Work

A recent study referenced in Business Week, this week, suggests that 28% of the U.S. worker’s day is made up of interruptions. This is a net loss of $650 billion in lost productivity. As a design company that has completed more than 300 projects in three years we are obviously…

General

Apr 13, 2009 by Tim
No Comments

Increasing SEM & SEO Effectiveness through Social Marketing

My friends, the internet is changing and this means that we have to tweak our SEM and SEO strategies to accommodate these changing times. Of course it’s key to continue to follow the standard “tricks of the trade” if you will, but you need to continue to look for new…

Digital Marketing

Apr 13, 2009 by Richard
No Comments

Great examples of WordPress as a CMS

Kevin Leary, our UI guru, has created a great list of sites that use WordPress as a content management system. It’s quite amazing that these sites are all built on WP.

WordPress CMS

Apr 13, 2009 by Richard
No Comments

How Social Media makes me smarter

Apparently social media is making us less sociable and stupid. In several books, articles and posts I have read recently there is a lot of concern about how social media allows us to be lazy social beings and shuts us off from the ‘real world’. Because we have online access to a multitude of strangers we now don’t need to connect to our real-life friends in real-world situations. And if that wasn’t bad enough we are apparently reading less books so we’re also getting dumber. According to the authors we’re headed for a world where we have no privacy, no friends and a mental state equivalent to a chocolate sundae.

Digital Marketing

Apr 12, 2009 by Richard
No Comments

How to get new projects out the door in 3 steps

If you are working on a new idea or planning a small project like an iphone app or a widget, here is a quick guide to getting it out the door without falling into the analysis paralysis trap: First, let new things happen without too much judgment about their future…

General

Apr 8, 2009 by Kevin
No Comments

Facebook Connect for WordPress Communities

Facebook Connect is a facebook API that allows programmers and web developers interact directly with facebook.com features within their website. An interested client of ours wanted to add these features to improve the comment flow on her WordPress driven website.

Digital Marketing

Mar 30, 2009 by Alex
No Comments

Kristine’s Famous!

This week we discovered that one of our designer’s portfolio sites was featured in “The Web Designer’s Idea Book.” Check out here site here: www.kristinejanssen.com In fact, this same site was also featured on CSS Remix which is how we discovered her and added her to the team back in…

General