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Jul
12
2010

The Not-So-Mythical Fold

See the details of a recent redesign that resulted in 3.5 times more conversions.

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Apr
14
2010

Web design collaboration for Unity Performing Arts Foundation

Studio 625 recently collaborated with Eric Hall at EH Design & Consulting to redesign the Unity Performing Arts Foundation website. UPAF wanted a design that would appeal to a younger audience as well as potential investors. I created two designs for Eric to work from as he builds a killer WordPress site with lots of [...]

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Apr
13
2010

Website redesign for Women of Grace USA, a Northeast Indiana non-profit organization

Studio 625 launches a freshly redesigned website for Women of Grace USA, a nonprofit organization located in Northeast Indiana. Women of Grace is dedicated to worldwide missions, girls’ discipleship and Christian leadership training. Their old website was powered by Contribute, which is great for simple websites, but they had outgrown it. Studio 625 updated the [...]

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Mar
02
2010

IE6 will never die, thanks to corporate arrogance

I just read an excellent examination of the excruciatingly slow death of Internet Explorer 6, by Popular Science. Right at the end, there’s this quote pulled from a comment thread on one of Microsoft’s blogs: “I work for a large financial services company with 40,000+ employees. And yes, every desktop PC and laptop runs WinXP [...]

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Jan
21
2010

Trying out a new SEO Tool

I’m evaluating a new linkbuilding tool called One Way Text Link. It’s designed to make directory submission less painful by showing you which directories you have already submitted to, and semi-automating the process. Here’s the link: web directories list I’ll post a more thorough review once I’ve used it a little more.

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Jan
13
2010

The Best WordPress Form Plugin: Gravity Forms

As far as WordPress plugins go, there aren’t many that I’d be willing to pay for. Gravity Forms is a different beast altogether. It actually makes creating forms fun. Fun. Like when you finally take off those painful shoes at the end of the day, or when you start using a hammer instead of your [...]

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Nov
13
2009

Create a cool set of gears in Illustrator

I just worked through a good Illustrator tutorial that shows you how to create a cool set of gears, using just basic shapes. Here’s how mine turned out:

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Nov
11
2009

Show Full Referring Page in Google Analytics

I was going to write up this fancy tutorial on how to create a custom filter that would give you the full referral path in your Traffic Sources area of Google Analytics. I got all the way to the end and realized that it’s already built into Google Analytics! Silly me. I swear this wasn’t [...]

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Nov
11
2009

New Website Launched!

I’m pleased to unveil the website for my new freelance company, Studio 625.

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