It is important as graphic and web designers to see what everyone else is doing or not doing on the web. It gives us an idea of what future clients may be looking for, and ideas that we can evolve into our own designs. It can also open your mind to things you may not have thought of before, thus expanding your creativity and idea-set. Even if you don’t like the look of a certain design trend that people have…
Whether you run a blog or run a company, Search Engine Optimization is something you must think about when designing your website. There are so many great looking, informative websites that just never place on the first page of Google search results because of a few design and coding missteps. Many of these missteps are easy to identify and can help you get more traffic within a few days of fixing them. In this post, we will provide a few…
As of February 10, 2011, Facebook made it so that Fan Pages would use iframes rather than the previous FBML (Facebook Markup Language). Facebook Fan Page admins and developers saw this as a change for the better. It makes creating stylish, interactive apps or Fan Page tabs much easier than it used to be. Instead of learning Facebook’s experimental (and confusing) FBML code, a developer is now able to create an external web page using basically any standard web programming…
We’re excited to announce that we have moved our video production and web design studio to Towson!
Recently I received an email from a previous client whose organization was planing for a video they needed to produce. The question he asked was timeless in our line of work…
While perusing Twitter the other day, I found an “alarming” fact that I’ll paraphrase here…
“Please just delete the message if you do not want it” -actual message from a Facebook spammer The words Social Media tend to conjure up images of birds chirping, tweet-ups, keeping up with grandma,and perhaps happily drumming up more customers for your business. But let’s not forget the golden rule of communication on a mass-level: your message has to be wanted.
Here’s a Zen question that keeps me up at night: Has subversive gone mainstream, or is the new mainstream just more subversive? Since I tend to talk a lot about video advertising on this blog, you might already see where I’m heading.
Ever since there have been products and services worth talking about, word-of-mouth has always been the “Holy Grail” of marketing. Developing effective word-of-mouth is elusive in nature, but critical to the success of a business. It is hard work to create and maintain word-of-mouth, but once you have a good core group of customer evangelists out there preaching the good word of your company’s product or service, there is nothing more powerful.