Hippo Blog

Man, the future was going to be cool. What happened? Where’s my jetpack? Where’s my army of robots to help with doing the dishes? While our platoon of robotic helpers may still be a few (dozen) years away, IFTTT (pronounced like “li...

Many people attend the Iowa State Fair to check out the musicians on the grandstand, throw a rubber chicken or eat their fill of fried Twinkies on a stick. But thousands of attendees have been flocking to the Iowa State University booth in the Var...

Business Critical is our weekly collection of what’s new, exciting, and insightful for business leaders from the world of the web, marketing, social media, and more. Email is Going (Even More) Global While English is the most widely spoken language...

Design principles are everywhere. Even in places you might not notice or expect. Take food trucks for example: not only are they mobile hunger-fighting supertrucks (like Transformers, only more delicious), but they’re prime examples of some really ...

Hard ciders seem to be quite a growing market in the alcoholic beverage world. While we’re mostly beer fans around the office, we can’t deny a great brand when we see one. Smith & Forge has hoisted their brand to the next level by tap...

People are impatient creatures. No matter how good a restaurant is, they’ll go elsewhere at the first sign of a long wait. The same thing happens to your website. You could post the meaning of life (or the world’s best chocolate chip cookie ...

Business Critical is our weekly collection of what’s new, exciting, and insightful for business leaders from the world of the web, marketing, social media, and more. OSX Yosemite Rolls Out to the Public Mac fans and design nerds: get ready. Mac OSX...

People like our work — a lot. Now, I’m not usually one to toot our own horn too much. But, it’s true. People often ask us how we create and maintain our internal process to facilitate creative work at a high level for so long. And, honestly...

Business Critical is our weekly collection of what’s new, exciting, and insightful for business leaders from the world of the web, marketing, social media, and more. Test Your Brainpower With Lucy’s Interactive Website Immersive experiences a...

Do you happen to have 48 hours to kill? If so, you could do worse than spending it marathoning each and every James Bond film — from Dr. No through Skyfall. (Seriously, it takes 2 days, I Googled it to make sure my math was correct.) If you hap...

I think everyone has home team pride. And that is certainly how we feel today. Flying Hippo proudly launches the redesigned school district website for our home base in Urbandale. Not only do we have location pride, but Urbandale Community School Dis...

File paths can be confusing in WordPress. (To learn more about WordPress check out this blog.) Especially because there are nearly two dozen different functions designed to generate dynamic paths in your code. Some of them are relative, others are st...