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'Web Development'


Sell Yourself Long Online


Sometimes the most difficult question someone can ask you about your business is to describe in depth- “What do you do?” This should be easy, shouldn’t it? The fact of the matter is that oftentimes, business executives have a tough time conveying in the right words the real meat of their business.
As a website company, [...]

The latest and greatest software versions


PHP 5 has been released for quite some time now, although it still seems to be the latest and greatest version of PHP, at least that is what people tend to think. It’s newer, it must be better, right? Well PHP5 may have been released over 4 years ago (July 14th 2004, for PHP5.0.0, to [...]

The Google Web Browser - Chrome!


Just when you thought the internet couldn’t get any better, Google launched it’s own web browser!  I’m still testing it, but it seems to be very lightweight, and nothing on anyone’s site seems to be broken…yet.  I’m even posting this blog post using Google Chrome.  Another piece in the Monopoly wall?  Check it out here: http://www.google.com/chrome [...]

Being a Featured Blog is Cool


Congratulations to the Trademark development team! We have been recgonized and featured in a popular WordPress design blog called “We Love Word Press”. Trademark Production’s blog and my personal blog MeridianCrest is also featured for their great design work. Not only are they cool and recgonized- they’re valid code! Take a peek at We Heart [...]

The Web Turns 5,000


I’m a big fan of TED (and so is DZ). They send me an email about once a week with highlighted talks about a lot of great, intellectual speeches that usually make you think.  Anyway, they just posted a talk by Kevin Kelly talking about the next 5,000 days of the web (can’t call [...]

Internet Explorer 8 to launch late 2008


That’s right folks, we’ve just got done fixing all of our sites to render properly in IE7 while still maintaining 100% valid (X)HTML and CSS, and they’re dropping the latest IE bomb on us, by the end of 2008, according to Bill Veghte, who heads up Microsoft’s Windows and online services division.

TM “Almost” Get’s Called Out on Web Standards


Most of the staff spends a ton of time online allday. That is what we do. Sifting through sites on various topics about web design, tons of SEO channels and of course- we “tweet” all day long too.
In the midst of doing some surfing and research our Project Manager, Dean, found a site that discussed [...]

Avoiding “Code Bloat”


It is essential for both search engine and people use that the markup (x)HTML of your website be as clean and semantically correct as possible (I’ll cover semantics in another article). This provides several benefits which are very important to people and search engines alike. Some of which are:
1. Faster page load times, [...]

Open Source vs. Closed Source


Perhaps you may have never heard of it. Perhaps you have heard of it. The point of this article is to discuss the differences and benefits between open source software, and closed source software. Open source software, for those that are still in the dark, is software that is released with the code behind it that makes it work, or at least that code is available somewhere, usually for free.