Rebecca Katzer

Are You A Fan?

By: Rebecca Katzer - Posted August 16th, 2010

I think I can safely say that everyone I know has (or has had) a Facebook account. This free to sign up,  social giant of a website has hooked the young, old, and everyone in between.  While it’s a little strange to see status updates about my grandma’s blackberry bush or my 7-year-old cousin’s little…

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Jessica Pine

Faces Behind The Names: Meet the Team Pages

By: Jessica Pine - Posted June 21st, 2010

Meet the team pages seem to be more popular with web design and creative firms, but they create valuable additions to any site where human contact is important. It adds a personal touch to your company, and can gain some massive trust to your visitors. There’s suddenly faces behind the names, and your company becomes…

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Craig Misak

Will AT&T Impact Web Design?

By: Craig Misak - Posted June 4th, 2010

I heard the story a few days ago on NPR and was taken aback by AT&T’s approach to their data plans. Citing that 2% of their users use more than 2gb of 3G bandwidth a month, which is bogging down their system, and that justifies limiting the “unlimited” plan for everyone. Now don’t kid yourself,…

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Tom Jenkins

WordPress 3.0 – A Better User Experience

By: Tom Jenkins - Posted June 2nd, 2010

Since its inception WordPress has lacked one feature that made for a better user experience.  A custom post type.  If you wanted to write a post about recipes one day, then have a photo post the next day, then maybe a journal post, each one would require a different data set.  A recipe post for…

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Jessica Pine

Don’t forget about the incentives!

By: Jessica Pine - Posted June 2nd, 2010

Providing incentives to your customers are very important because they can cause motivation, effort, productivity and profit. Your consumer needs positive incentives to encourage them to engage in your service/product and will greatly affect the reputation of your company. These encouragements can allow for numerous types of responses – impulse, motivation and drive just to…

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Jessica Pine

Sustainability Ability!

By: Jessica Pine - Posted May 25th, 2010

Here are some tips to improving sustainability within an organization. 1. Setting Sustainability Goals & Measuring Success How much value can sustainability create for my organization? How much cost can I save? What are my broader corporate goals? 2. Stakeholder Engagement It’s truly important to identify WHO needs to be engaged and WHAT information will…

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Anna Robertson

Simple and Clear – the best marketing

By: Anna Robertson - Posted May 13th, 2010

Designing for email marketing can sometimes be daunting: you need to take into account how 10 different clients will display your message, or whether your customers will even choose to show images. But even with the threat of no graphics, tons of big name companies are choosing to go the ‘pretty-design’ route and leave live…

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Jessica Pine

Identify Your Business!

By: Jessica Pine - Posted May 10th, 2010

If you want to increase the public’s awareness of your business and possibly provide a high level of familiarity and comfort for your business, you need a functional and successful brand. Branding and identifying your business successfully will most likely draw in potential customers and will build your company a strong essence. Even though a…

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Anna Robertson

Tutorial – Saving Images for Web

By: Anna Robertson - Posted May 6th, 2010

Something that comes up a lot in my line of work is finding a happy medium between file size and quality. If you opt for a smaller file size, sometimes your image quality will suffer. With so many options (jpg, png, gif), how do you know which to choose? This short tutorial should walk you…

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Jessica Pine

Make Your Blog Popular!

By: Jessica Pine - Posted May 3rd, 2010

Day by day, blogs are getting extremely popular. More and more are getting addicted to updating ones thoughts, writing logs and sharing miscellaneous activity. There seems to be no indication of trend reversal.. but now with increased awareness more and more are becoming aware of this new phenomenon. If you are competing for a popular…

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