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The Evolution of Search in Six Minutes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTBShTwCnD4 Our goal is actually to make improvements to search, that just answer the user's information need, get them to their answer faster & faster; so that there's almost a seemless connection between their thoughts & their information needs, and the search results that they find. Props of course to Mashable for the thorough writeup. Happy #cybermonday , yall
November 28, 2011
CultureDevelopment

Drupal & WordPress on the same couch?

Ninthlink buddy Matt Young was talking about a photo that Drupal-founder Dries showed him, of Dries and Wordpress-founder Matt Mullenweg sharing the same couch. After some quick googling, it looks like that stemmed from a rad event (SchipulCon 2011) that both spoke at. I really dug reading that write-up of their talk - especially when asked how each benefits from the other's existence. (more…)
October 27, 2011
CultureDevelopment

Paying It Forward: Pro Bono Web Development

Ninthlink is always on the look out for ways to help friends, family and clients succeed.  An important part of this is the idea of giving to get.  In keeping with this theme, we recently did some pro bono web development work for The Girls Empowerment Workshop to update their existing site and move it into WordPress, an extremely user-friendly content management system. (more…)
October 14, 2011
DesignDevelopment

Proud of my Panning Gallery : Client Redesign

We launched a fresh look and feel for Global Resource Investments, LTD. just about a year ago to the day today, and after a year, they were ready and eager for more. The single site for investing, a year ago, bloomed in to two separate entities this time around : Independent Investing with Sprott Global Resource Investments LTD, and Managed Investing with Sprott Asset Management USA. I am especially pleased with how the Panning Slideshows on the homepages turned out.…
October 11, 2011
DesignDevelopmentOnline ConversionTips

Where’s the fold? There it is!

Designers talk about "the fold" on websites as some arbitrary line, where almost everyone will see what is going on "above the fold" on your homepage, and noone ever bothers to scroll down "below the fold", so you can pretty much get away with anything you want there, right? But what does it really MEAN? Enter Where's the fold - now you can SEE where the fold most likely will be, on whichever site you choose. Now we just need…
October 11, 2011