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“‘Think simple,’ as my old master used to say — meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.” -Frank Lloyd Wright As designers, we have this really cool power. We ca...

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. Social media goes direct-message crazy Chasing the attempted $3 billion acquisitio...

The Web is a big place. All kinds of people use it for all kinds of reasons and in different ways. But, no matter who your audience is — which ages, genders, income levels you’re trying to reach — they’re almost definitely usi...

It seems like jQuery sliders are a dime a dozen these days. Yet, most aren’t easy to use out of the box. Maybe the “Super Simple jQuery Slider” is just a myth. But, I don’t think so. I think we can do better. I think we can create a slide...

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. Ron Bugundy does the real news (if you can call it that) It may have been a slow h...

One of the biggest benefits of creating consistent, compelling content for your website is that it helps grow search engine visibility and traffic. It’s the gas for your inbound marketing strategy — keeping the wheels turning, driving con...

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. Batkid dominates social media One part heartwarming act of philanthropy, one p...

When we first started this company, the web was a much simpler place. Boy, how times have changed. Back then, many brands were still apprehensive to invest in websites, development meant hard-coding a few pages in pure HTML (including tables. Ugh.), ...

I was sitting on my deck the other evening enjoying an unusually-mild summer night with my wife when one of the kids inadvertently turned on an overhead light. Faster than you could say, “Holy Bugs of Armageddon!,” swarms of mosquitoes, gnats, an...

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Flying Hippo, a web site design firm based in Des Moines, was recognized with five ADDY awards at the recent ADDYs Awards Show held at the Teachout Building in Des Moines, Iowa. The ADDYs, sponsored by the American Advertising Federation (AAF) of Des...