It’s finally happened. After almost a year of waiting, a team of web designers, web developers, an agency and many talented others have been working with a well-known newspaper to launch the much-anticipated and new Boston Globe website. Why is this big news? Because the new Boston Globe isn’t an ordinary newspaper website. For the [...]
Should websites be built around the content, or should content be created to fit the design? Here’s an argument for creating content first – or at least thinking about content first.
It’s been a crazy start to 2011. In fact, the last few months have been an absolute whirlwind. Here are some noteworthy the projects we’ve been working on, with services ranging from consulting to custom email design & build using MailChimp to full websites built on either WordPress or Buddypress. Have a project you want [...]
Using A List Apart’s article on Responsive Web Design (by Ethan Marcotte) as inspiration, this site now uses CSS media queries to determine a visitor’s screen resolution and serve up an appropriate version should the viewer be visiting from an iPhone. If you have an iPhone next to you, give it a try.
The English Premier League is big money. EPL clubs are as much businesses as they are generational sporting institutions, a point proven when cumulative wage bills total £1.2bn, revenues top £2bn, and an exclusive broadcasting deal with BSkyB is worth a staggering £1.7bn. £100m is paid to each club per season from TV revenues alone, [...]
Lifestreaming. It can be defined as ‘an automated, effective way to centralize one’s various web activities into a single, unified website or stream’ and it can take various forms. Some people use services like FriendFeed or Tumblr, whilst others opt to make their own. Whichever way you choose to aggregate your activities, the fact remains [...]
Although website design is (in my opinion) one of the most hotly-contested environments on the web right now, most of the beautiful websites you see on various CSS galleries are single-service, offering either web design or web design/development by use of a graphical portfolio. Here I’ve rounded up the other folk – the SMBs or [...]
I really identify with Gladwell’s ‘The Tipping Point’. With web tools like Twitter available to all, positive momentum can grow within hours, not days or weeks, potentially creating a success overnight. So the same can be said about negative momentum – where a community backlash can reach a tipping point and something starts to happen. [...]
Janine Popnick, CEO of Vertical Response, has just created a great list on where you should always place your opt-in form to ensure quality newsletter subscriptions. Read the full post at the VR Marketing Blog, or scroll down this post the list itself.
CarbonGraffiti has had a facelift! Why? Because having an all-HTML site starts to become a burden when you want to make quick updates, and especially when those updates are of the blog nature. This new site is built on the now famous WordPress.org platform, meaning I can make updates quickly and from any browser. I [...]
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