We are very excited to introduce our new Creative Director, Kenneth King. We feel lucky to have him as part of our team. He’s leading some new initiatives for us, so you may be talking to him very soon and he’s looking forward to meeting you all.

Responsive web design is no longer just a catchphrase, it’s here.  Analytics show that more and more people, especially the people you probably want to target, are accessing the web via a mobile device.

We’re here to help.

Do you have a quick question? A request? A change? Wondering what your email settings are for your new smartphone?

Don’t forget we have a support portal!

Why would anybody not want IMAP?  It’s convenient.  You can access your email on every device you own.  It gets backed up on the remote server, so that if your local computer should die, miraculously, your email will “reappear” when you get a new computer. 

But, what happens when the internet goes down?  What if you have a brand new computer, phone, tablet, but it can’t connect to the internet.  How can you search for that email you’ve got to respond to….when you can’t get to the remote server hosting your IMAP email.

If your email is set up as POP3, you can.

Nobody wants to think about mortality or death and dying, and nobody wants to think about the possibility that their computer may not boot one day.  But like mortality, you will probably experience the death of a harddrive sooner or later. Best to have a back up plan in place when this does happen.

Only if your dog’s name is &$kt!YG)

The Wall Street Journal shows two contrasting views on this debate by profiling two small business owners.

Read the full article.

We’re Hiring!

We are looking for an ambitious, well-rounded PHP developer with solid CodeIgniter and ExpressionEngine experience.

For job requirements and how to apply, please see our job post at Authentic Jobs.

Report showing that use of social media on average is equal to 22.5% of the total amount of time people spend online, begs the question of the utility of Social Media.  As Social Media becomes more mainstream and more and more people sign up for Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter & GooglePlus, are these places increasingly becoming the White Pages and Billboards of the offline world?

A tongue-in-cheek look at the importance of Captchas

Disturbed by that brutish, nasty & long account number that Google Plus has assigned you as an account name?  Personalize it!

Is Facebook reaching “middle age”?  “Sharing” on Facebook takes a more measured turn

If reading about Google Plus isn’t enough, there’s now a helpful song

Will Google Plus really live up to the hype?

BuiltWith Technology recently published an overview of CMS Usage Statistics that shows the CMS distribution in the top million, top 100,000, and top 10,000 sites.  (They define the top million sites as the web’s most visited sites in descending order).

The trend was very interesting when you look for Expression Engine, which typically is our CMS of choice. In the top million sites, Expression Engine ranks tenth. In the top 100,000 sites, EE is fifth, and in the top 10,000, EE is fourth. We often get asked by our larger clients and prospects about the size of the Expression Engine user base because what they mostly hear about is WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal. What these stats show is that even though EE may not have spread as prolifically as the open source alternatives, it has a strong presence in well-trafficked sites.