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You’ve spent the last several months creating the world’s most fantastic website. Great design, sophisticated code, cutting-edge css, and a fancy content management system – your new website is a platform ready to offer up the most exciting and insightful bits of information known to man. Congratulations! Except… As every one of our clients has heard us preach at least once, “The best website in the world is worthless without an audience.” Without strong content, regularly updated, your...
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DENVER, April 1, 2013 – Relish Studio, a Denver-area digital strategy agency focusing on internet-based marketing solutions, design, and development, today announced the merger with RJM Consulting group. The combined business will retain the name, “Relish Studio,” and will provide digital strategy, branding, design, motion graphics, mobile integration, development, and Search Engine Optimization/Search Engine Marketing (SEO/SEM) to clients in the Denver Metro area and beyond...
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In the wake of the Sandy Elementary School massacre, gun violene and gun control are topics that are on virtually everyone's mind. Without getting into the politics of whether or not we need more – or more strict – gun laws, most discussions on the subject start with data. This...
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One of the things we love most about working in the digital space is how much the landscape evolves. It keeps us on our toes here at Relish Studio and one of the main areas of interest of late has been responsive design and how to retro-fit sites not originally crafted to take advantage of this new way of addressing platform-agnostic delivery of information.
Creating websites from a mobile-first perspective (as outlined in Luke Wroblewski’s...
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Social media is taking the power away from money and giving it to “the good ideas” and those who posses them.
In the past, the only way to bring attention to your brand was to spend a shit-ton of money developing marketing and brand campaigns and then paying even more for ad-space and media-buys to get the word out. It helped if your idea was a good one, but that was never enough. This adversely weighted the “value” of a campaign on the media buy and the marketing budget rather...
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This TED video by Clay Shirky really stands on its own. It is a great analysis of media, how it has changed over time and how content providers of every type need to fully understand how the new, social web changes the game. How has your discussion changed in the era of social media?
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HTML5 is on the way.
For most people on the planet, this statement elicits a blank stare and perhaps a simple, "What's a 'hutml'?" response. For those of us in the business of bringing kickass websites to life, however, it brings a mixture of hope and nervous tension. HTML5 certainly won't solve the myriad of hassles associated with web development and, in the short-term, may actually create more headaches as developers manage the quagmire of legacy browser compatibility...
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Anyone with a website knows the importance of "conversion", whether it be converting a user from the home page to an internal page to track retention (or lack thereof), or an eCommerce website that wants to track clicks from a product page to the check-out page. And there's many tools out there to track user traffic trends on one's website, such as...
Development
We love to see innovation and design in all its forms. Particularly when designers appeal to a breadth of considerations above and beyond pure aesthetics. Good design takes into account single pain points, desires or needs. Great designs eclipse any single category and work on multiple levels.
Take, for example, the square Coke bottle designed by...
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Though I still feel that the name, "iPad" is truly awful, after meeting up with an old friend and colleague yesterday, my overall thoughts on this product have changed a bit. See, Scott is a media guy and one who, when we first met, really didn't like Apple products at all (Interesting combination, I know.). He is now firmly on board with the Apple brand and even talked at length with me yesterday about the iPhone, his Mac Mini to AppleTV home theater network and, yes, his desire to get an...
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