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It was that special time of year of merry and jolly. The wish lists were made, and snow was softly falling.The developers were snuggled up in their beds, while visions of best practices danced in their heads. Mobile responsive, HTML, type and code. Usability, CSS, and testing mode. And on December 9th, everyone awoke excited. “For us?” Scott said, “We’re just so...

In the early days of the Web, designers were far more limited by technical constraints than they are now, particularly with regards to the various typographic styles that they had available to them. However, instead of having to choose from a small selection of Web-safe fonts and relatively simplistic design styles, designers can now use typography to give their websites a more unique and artistic...

Hummingbirds, and Penguins, and Pandas, Oh My!Some basic background when talking about any Google update is helpful. Even those in the SEO industry can lose track of just what each one does. Hummingbird affected semantic search terms and changed the way Google interprets word order and even punctuation. Penguin focused on breaking up the search engine ranking power of link networks. Panda, on the...

Christmas is coming early this year!You may have read about our adventure to Smashing Conference in New York a couple weeks ago. While there, the magnificent organizers announced the first ever Canadian Smashing Conference set for December 9 - 12, 2014. The event will take place in the picturesque Whistler Village, BC.Like all conferences organized by these splendid folks, the program will bring...

When designing a web application there are a lot of things to consider; what does the client want and need? What’s the budget and how should it look? And, maybe most importantly, what will the user experience be like when they visit your site? While the end user is always carefully considered, they’re not always made the star they should be. User experience, or UX as the smart guys...