Back in February, my friends at YWAM approached me about developing a new website for the YWAM base in Haiti. Because of the earthquake, the base was getting a greater response of people desiring to help. Their current site was a bit difficult to update and they were wanting to easily communicate their message to the world. We built this site over a weekend while visiting some friends, it’s not much but it has blessed the Youth With A Mission base. I am excited as we will be doing more and more sites for bases around the world. Currently we’re working on another site for a base in Chile.
Check out YWAM Haiti
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We just did a small site for our good friends at Images and Events. Here’s the issue, what do you do on a website that has little to no information and is basically a glorified internet flyer? You add some functional javascript wizardry!
These are usually really fun sites to work on, especially when it’s for clientele who really appreciate the extra bits you put into the site. With this one, we added Santa and the slideshow images actually slide behind him. Fun touch, fun to do.
If you’ve got a small website that you’d like visitors to stay on for a while, contact us, we’d love to help out!
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So, I’ve been trying to figure this out for a while – How to program a non-apple keyboard’s Function Buttons to control the volume, mute, etc. I’ve tried all sorts of things from writing perl scripts to apple scripts, different programs and nothing has quite worked like I wanted it until today! I found this program – Sizzling Keys and it works awesome. If this is something you’ve been trying to figure out, here is your answer!
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Do you know about the 80 / 20 rule? Where 80% of your time is spent doing 20% of the workload and vice versa? Well it rings so true with web developers, so much so that we are now cresting a point that we will begin to charge extra to have a website developed for Internet Explorer 6. We have reached a point in web development where it is no longer profitable for us or any web developer out there, to spend 80% of his or her time to develop for a browser that does not function or act properly. This browser has been around for over 8 years, it is outdated and a security risk for most users.
I’ve spoken with several network admins at different companies. There is a reason IE6 is still around and it’s because it lives in the corporate world. There is a bottleneck somewhere, whether with the network admins, the corporations, or Microsoft itself. If it’s the network admins not wanting to do some sort of crazy overhaul to an enormous infrastructure, I can see that would be an intimidating factor and would imagine that Microsoft would have to put out a new license for such an overhaul. If it’s the corporations not wanting to spend money on an update, well, we’re in a recession so I can understand that too. But seriously, I think the problem has got to lie with Microsoft not launching an update to their software that would cause all things to run properly on an updated browser.
All I can say is, if you are able, please update your internet explorer to the latest version of Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox.
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We knew we were a fun company! Thanks everyone for considering us for this honor! We love working with local companies and our goal is to propel your business forward! See what One of the Top Favorite Pierce County Companies can do for your Pierce County company!
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I started noticing some extra traffic on the site yesterday coming from here: www.designshard.com
I visited the link only to find that we were put on a list of 25 clean and well designed websites. That in itself is an honor, but what made me excited is that we were listed by some of my favorite websites: simplebits.com and markboutlon.co.uk. Mark Boulton is a well known speaker / author / designer in the UK and I have followed his blog for years. Dan Cederholm is another well known speaker / blogger / author / designer and like many designers, I have followed his blog for years and own several of his books. Both of these guys are legends in my mind so to be placed by them is exciting for Ainsworth Studio and where we are headed. If you want to join in and work with a company that will soon be a well known design firm, let’s do something together!
Contact us today to find out what we can do for you.
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We recently did a website for a man in Scottsdale / Phoenix, Arizona area. In the midst of our website design for him, his wife was offered a job in San Antonio as the principal of a private preparatory school. Well, we finished the website for Jim and ended up doing such an amazing job that his wife hired Ainsworth Studio to redevelop the schools website and logo. We developed not only the logo you see in the upper left hand corner of the website, but we also created one for their athletics program. When we talked with Donna she explained how enrollment in a private school was a difficult item to sell during a recession and how if we could gain 40 more students then the site would pay for itself. Their goal for enrollment was 285 and by the time the first day of school rolled around, they had 345 students enrolled with more interest than they’ve ever had.
That is a 21% increase above the goal!
We were honored to work on this site and are thrilled that parents in San Antonio are now able to find a trustworthy and fantastic education for their children. Check out Northwest Hills Christian School:
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Have you seen this?
Man, Dyson is genius. How fun of a project would this be to work on? I got to use the air blade last week on a business trip. During some free time my website developer, Ben and I went to the St. Louis Arch and the bathroom there has the super fast, 400mph wind, hand dryer. It was cool. If I got a bladeless fan, I would probably try to teach my children how to jump through it! HA!
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We just launched a site with been working on with an amazing marketing team – Reanier Advisors. Stripe Rite is Washington State’s Leading Pavement Marking Service. Check out the site and leave a comment with your thoughts.
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I never knew that e.e. cummings was funny. I remember reading his poetry back in school and my only true memory is that it was boring, end of story. But, today, while reading a business book I read a short poem by him and it made me laugh:
… my Uncle Sol had a skunk farm but the skunks caught cold and died and so my Uncle Sol imitated the skunks in a subtle manner …
I know some Uncle Sol’s, I just spent 3 days climbing a mountain with 4 of them. You know who you are! I’ll post pictures of our adventure soon.
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