Create Website Performance and Accessibility
I started working at Uptown Studios in the summer of 2012. One of my first big tasks was the redesign of the Uptown Studios website. I worked over the holiday break from late December into early January and came out the other side with a pretty great looking, new website. We used …
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It’s Official – We are in the New Studio
We have been talking about this for over two years and the day is finally upon us. Today we all show up at our new studio for work. If you are out and about please stop by: Uptown Studios 2415 23rd Street (between X and Broadway) Sacramento, CA 95818 We would love to show you around …
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Exploring the Web and Website Design
The internet is like a jungle. It’s a fascinating, living ecosystem that never stops growing and creates new lifeforms everyday through website design. Until this point, my background was mostly print design which is a similar environment but it lives by its own different rules. That’s why I’m looking at many of these web lifeforms …
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Get the Website Security Blanket
At Uptown Studios, we love building websites on WordPress, with all of it’s flexibility and ability to grow and scale to any size – WordPress can handle almost anything you throw at it. Websites powered by WordPress only become insecure if they are allowed to be so, which means it’s critical to make sure you …
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It Takes a Team to Create a Website
I’m a planner. On everything I do, I map out every step and explore every possibility before I get started. Now, as a project manager, this can come in handy and helps me guide the team and clients on jobs and ensure we meet deliverables. However, as part of the creative world, it is important …
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Free White Paper: 10 Ways to Make Your Website More Effective
This free white paper from Uptown Studios will walk you through the key steps in optimizing your website to take advantage of modern techniques and technologies, and drive your visitors to convert to customers!
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Learning and Growing in April
This past week we had the BEST April Fools’ joke. Our lead graphic designer, Anton Weaver, created a 3D model of a special drone that delivered coffee. It is so realistic that when it was dropped into a photo we set up of me reaching for my drone delivered coffee – I could almost smell it.
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Read More »Five Tips to Finding a Great Web Design Team
Find the professional firm that has lots of experience. That experience will save you money because they will have many short cuts in their tool bag to cut time off of many areas and save time.
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Top 5 Web Design Trends of 2014
I know its a tad late, but Happy New Year! Last year was pretty great, amirite? Good times, good times. But 2013 was not without its shortcomings, especially in the world of web design. And the times they are a-changing. So without further ado, here are my Top 5 most anticipated (and some already happening) trends in web design for the year 2014 and beyond.
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