Archive for the ‘Custom Web Development’ Category

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Ashley Akin

Invigorate Your Intranet

(aka: How To Make Your Employees Give A Damn About Corporate Sharing) When employees hear the word "Intranet" they often imagine an endless procession of cubicles, red tape and TPS Reports. In order to combat that, we've created a cheat sheet to help you make your intranet engaging and empowering for executives and employees alike.

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Joe Morris

Of Olympic Coverage and Failure to Satisfy …

Whether it's a multibillion-dollar, 16-day global broadcasting spectacle or your company's social-media or print product, it's never a good idea to take advice only up to a point.

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Picture This: Connecting Photogs With Bootleggers

Oh, for the days when attaching artwork to a blog simply meant pinging around the Internet, running searches and eventually snagging a suitable image and dropping it into place. You can still do that, but now you’re much more likely to get into trouble if that artwork is copyrighted and you haven't asked for permission — or paid the photographer/artist.

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Joe Morris

5 to Follow: Tourist Attractions

Nashville is Music City USA. Visitors come here to hang out in the honky-tonks, listen to the buskers on Lower Broadway and cruise around Music Row looking for their favorite singers. (Country music superstars don’t live on Music Row, but let’s not tell the tourists; why spoil their fun?) But once the out-of-towners get here, [...]

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Eric King

3 Website Mistakes That Drive Me Crazy

Although I could spend days explaining the worst of the worst, I’ll pick three of my lease favorite, and coincidentally most common, web mistakes.

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If Content Is King, Are You The Power Behind The Throne?

There are plenty of sites (both business/consumer and pure blog) that have plenty to say, and say it effectively. And they don’t just rely on short sentences, SEO-laden jargon and bullet points, either.

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Matt Bigelow

Web Design: How to Hire the Right Web Designer

When looking to hire a web designer, or a web design firm, it can be difficult to compare firms apples to apples. Here's a quick guide to assessing web designers and choosing the right one:

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Candace Price

Sewanee Tuition Reduction News Spreads Online

The University of the South in Sewanee, TN announced that they are making a 10 percent tuition reduction and intentionally spread the news virally through their website, via email and over social media tools.

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Chrissy Sievers

Web Design for Small Businesses in 2011

Now that it's 2011, all the top trends of 2011 lists are coming out. A noteworthy one I stumbled upon today is Mashable's Five Design Trends for Small Businesses. What's great about what we see coming up in 2011, is that many of these trends won't require any more out-of-pocket expense to implement. They create a lot of bang with very few bucks, possibly even saving you some money, which is crucial to a small business. Here's what you should see come our way in 2011.

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Michael Nott

Test Driving iPhone Photo Apps

Photography gets serious with the iPhone 4. The new iPhone4 features a 5 megapixal with 5x digital zoom with fully-functioning HDR capabilities. It also has a built-in LED flash that does a decent job in low-light situations. To see how the camera performs, I decided to test out 4 photography apps that produce a variety of effects on the iPhone.

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