I believe it was my business partner Jessica who first said the word Pinterest out loud. I asked what she was referring to and I was shown this odd website that looked like a mix between an ad agency’s mood wall and some gal’s “vision board”. I joked that I hadn’t heard of Pinterest, but [...]
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The internet is constantly evolving, and as the owner and lead developer for a web development studio, I am in the constant state of re-teaching myself how it is that I perform the work I do. While I imagine workers in most fields need to keep aware of whatever is occurring in their profession [...]
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I love to travel. So much so that if money was no issue, I would leave town tomorrow and travel the globe non-stop for the rest of my time on this planet. There is really nothing I enjoy more than seeing a landscape I’ve never encountered before – coming into a town I’ve never walked [...]
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An old school-mate of mine who happens to share my interest in web design and serial entrepreneurship recently completed a challenge he devised called 100 Goals In 100 Days. The concept is simple – list out 100 goals, and complete them in 100 days. As someone who recognizes the power in setting goals – this seemed like a great [...]
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This is episode #2 of what is quickly becoming an animated series depicting real meetings with clients and the interesting requests and feedback we get on a regular basis.
This episode is actually a composite of two design reviews we had over the past couple weeks. I love my clients – but sometimes you really [...]
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This past week we had a series of back-n-forth conversation with one of our favorite clients, regarding a banner ad they had already received approval for from their client. Try as I might, I couldn’t seem to convince them that what they were asking for just wasn’t realistic.
For the heck of it, we’ve now recreated [...]
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Heading to the Oregon Coast and want to get in a quick work-out in a state-of-the-art facility? Then check out the latest addition to Manzanita, Oregon – Fit Manzanita. We launched a 1-page site for FIT – a new Gym in beautiful Manzanita, Oregon.
http://www.fitmanzanita.com
The simple place-holder site gives the basic info and showcases some photos [...]
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One of the first clients we had when we opened up the doors of The Interactive Dept (and actually, at the time we were called {GDSpies}, which is a whole different story) we were hired by Joe Hunter and the crew at Magnum Opus to build them a website. For those who don’t know – [...]
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