Content Management Solution: Part 5- Video Integration

This blog post is one part in a series. Click to see the other posts related to the benefits of a content management solution. Interactive content many times is what helps draw website visitors in and keeps them clicking through a website. With the now ubiquitous YouTube and the incre
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The Mass Big Data Award Winning Interactive Website Promotes Big Data in Massachusetts

Mass Big Data Wins Best Of Government Websites
Polar Design announced today that a project it has worked on with the Mass. Technology Collaborative and Gopi Bala LLC, won the Best of Category award for Government Web Sites in Horizon Interactive’s 12th annual international award competition. The project is significant in many ways
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STEM Center USA : ReBranding for Kickstarter Success

Pi Bot Robot Kit
What can rebranding do for you?  Today’s ever changing world of online markets lends itself to great opportunity to spread an existing or start-up company’s message to a huge number of possible customers, cost effective, through social media and other digital marketing methods.
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Content Management Solution: Part 4 – E-Commerce Content Management Integration

This blog post is one part in a series. Click to see the other posts related to the benefits of a content management solution. Many websites go beyond just being informative: they sell products too. While having an e-commerce website can provide extra revenue streams for a business, a
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Content Management Solution: Part 3- Event Calendars

Event Calendar Backend Example from The Camera Company
This blog post is one part in a series. Click to see the other posts related to the benefits of a content management solution. So you have general information on your website — an attractive Homepage directing users to important subpages, an About Us page with mission statement
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Understanding the Cloud : A Play in One Act

Cloud Hosting Drama
With a growing number of clients requesting or coming to us with cloud hosting of web applications and sites, we’ve asked and been asked a number of questions about the cloud. Understanding cloud hosting is not daunting but does require some patience  – the basic idea behind the cloud
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Content Management Solution: Part 2- Slider Carousels

Slider Carousel Backend Example from The Camera Company
This blog post is one part in a series. Click to see the other posts related to the benefits of content management solutions. Sometimes it is difficult for an organization to identify the top three to five messages it would like to communicate to its website users. And, further, an or
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Content Management Solutions: Part 1- Page Templates

Example of SilverStripe Page Templates
This blog post is one part in a series. Click to see the other posts related to the benefits of content management solutions. You’ve decided that your website needs a better maintenance plan: a content management solution. Great! But, where do you start? When integrating a websi
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Content Management Solutions: Making Website Maintenance Life Easier

Content Management Solution Page Tree
Maintaining a website can seem like a daunting task at times. What type of content do I need? What size should images be? How can I have images rotate in a carousel fashion? What’s the best way to feature events? I could really benefit from a sign up form on this page rather tha
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How to Choose eCommerce Software : A Checklist

eCommerce Web Site Speed Test
Whether you are new to e-commerce or are an online merchant that has been around the block a few times, you know that after your product and your brand, your e-commerce web site is your third most important investment.  With so much competition between e-Commerce design agencies and e
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