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Here we talk about design, development, games, the publishing industry, and any other web-related stuff that we find interesting. And, of course, we talk about what we are up to in the studio.


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Reversing the order of your comments

We develop our client’s sites in WordPress since it is such a flexible and powerful system. It allows our clients to update and maintain their own site content which is always a good thing. Sometimes editing the defaults in the system is very easy, but other times it takes a little finagling.
Recently a client [...]


Full Scalable Background Images

Recently we worked on creating the new Fashion for All web site. F4a is a national non-profit in the US. The aim is to offer women living in low-income communities a day of dignified shopping and access to community-based organizations, which provide educational, career, health, wellness, and parenting resources. It’s about providing the tools [...]


It’s On!

Over the weekend we found ourselves bored and in search of something to do around town.  This sparked an idea: what if the power of Twitter could be harnessed to find things to do?  What if everyone on Twitter could post about upcoming events in a way that would broadcast them to everyone?  Indie bands, [...]


Knopf Doubleday Site

Naturally, when Random House approached us to develop the new Knopf Doubleday site, we were giddy.  But what’s more:  we were intrigued.  They didn’t just need a website, they needed a suite of sites that all worked together.  They needed all of their imprints, and several of their main content categories, to have individual sites, [...]


Flex Initialize and the Hassles of Changing State

One of the features of Adobe Flex that gives it so much power is the ability to build proper MVC-architected projects.  You can build your views with MXML, usually with some basic scripting, and keep the real code and data separate.  And part of that power is the ability to create different view states for [...]