Thank You Smashing Magazine
We just wanted to say a big thank you to Smashing Magazine for featuring us in one of their recent blog entries. Smashing Magazine is a site that we frequent and its always nice to see your work featured in places that you respect. We are honored to be apart of their ‘Best Navigation Practices’ post with a great list of fantastic sites.
Awesome Flight Attendant
If you have ever been on an airplane you have heard a flight attendant stand at the front of the plane before takeoff and they go through their whole speech of safety, etc. and what to expect on the flight. That’s pretty standard. I received an email this morning from a client which contained a link of the following video which I really felt was worth sharing! I don’t want to give away the contents of the video so just take a look.
Google is Always Looking Out
Google is always on top of it’s game with trying to make it’s services better and better for it’s users. There are so many great tools that Google offers (mostly for free) to help people in so many ways. There are the obvious tools for searching. There are tools for blogging. There are webmaster tools and they have their videos section and the list seems to go on and on. And one of the cool things about Google is that they don’t stop because something is going well. They continue to put out new products and ideas that it’s no wonder that Google holds more than 60% of internet searches. I watched a short video today that I thought I might pass through our site to help our clients and visitors who may not have noticed a small changed on Google.
What the Incrediblend?
Incrediblend is a new project that we recently started that isn’t really a new idea, perse; however, it’s bringing an idea down to a local community. We love to look at the different web design galleries that are all over the world and we’ve been fortunate enough to be featured in a few (CSS Mania, Unmatched Style, CSS Fresh Blend, and more…). So basically Incrediblend is a design gallery showcasing great websites designed by Lehigh Valley based design teams. Since we love to submit our sites to galleries all over the world we thought it might be a cool idea to showcase work from teams close to home. It’s a bit of an interesting thought because we’re kinda promoting our competition but the overall goal is to bring quality design to the Valley.
Keep it Simple
I was forwarded this video from a friend who works in marketing. The idea is that the ‘stop sign’ hasn’t been created yet and an agency is hired to develop it. It’s really a fun video that anyone in a design field can get a kick out of. Sometimes clients can overcomplicate a simple idea that is otherwise a perfect idea! Sometimes designers can overcomplicate a design. So it definitely works both ways!
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
