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April’s Music Tweet of the Month – The Civil Wars

Syl — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 05:56:29 +0000

Pandora is a great way to discover new music, and today we stumbled upon a song that is sweet, simple and a bit haunting in a good way. The band is ‘The Civil Wars’ and the song is ‘Dance Me To The End of Love’, a song originally by Leonard Cohen. ‘The Civil Wars’ is [...]

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Organic Link Building for Better SEO

Syl — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:38:23 +0000

Link building for better SEO (search engine optimization) and rankings – we all know having incoming links help your website rank higher in search engines; however, don’t get all crazy and use tactics to build up that number of links in unnatural ways. Relax… breath… and gather up incoming links from more natural means. If [...]

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New Website for Kihei Rent A Car

Syl — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:22:08 +0000

We just launched a new website for Kihei Rent A Car. They had an old dinosaur website created eons ago, that needed to be brought up to date with the latest look and the latest coding under the hood. Kihei Rent A Car came to us looking for a clean, yet inviting site that was [...]

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Oh Heavenly Day – Patti Griffin

Syl — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:16:45 +0000

Here’s a great song that is especially perfect for Valentine’s Day, “Oh, Heavenly Day” by singer/songwriter and musician Patti Griffin – who says this song is the very first love song she ever wrote…. dedicated to her dog. She must’ve really loved that dog, because this song is really beautiful. Patty Griffin is an American [...]

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Web Design Project for Hawaii Solar Company

Syl — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:43:03 +0000

Recently, we completed phase one of a web design project for Hawaii solar company, Haleakala Solar. They came to us looking for a fresh new look for their old out-dated website. The design was generic and the back-end coding – which no one ever gets to see except for the search engines – was in [...]

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Hawaii Hula Web Design

Syl — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 04:17:01 +0000

Mahana Walters of Hawaii Hula Company approached us needing better SEO ranking and a better functioning website. Let me tell you, this Hawaii hula web design was fun to create since the photos Mahana provided were quite beautiful. The website she had previously was built on pretty shaky coding, so we redid the website from [...]

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Song Peck of the Month: Heart of Mine

Syl — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:13:55 +0000

This month’s Song Peck is ‘Heart of Mine’ done by Norah Jones & the Peter Malick Group from the album New York City which was released back in 2003. This song was originally written by Bob Dylan. It’s a song that goes exactly where it should, straight to your heart. Norah Jones, multiple Grammy Award-winning [...]

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Go Elf Yourself… with JibJab!

Syl — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:11:51 +0000

We remember running across these guys, JibJab, through OfficeMax for the first time a few years ago, with OfficeMax’s ‘Go Elf Yourself’ campaign. It was the hottest thing back then, with everyone sending each other their own Go Elf Yourself greeting card. What made it so cool was placing your own photos into the super [...]

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Song Peck: J’ai Deux Amours

Syl — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:46:06 +0000

Last month’s Song Peck was in Portuguese, and this month’s Song Peck is in French… Like I said before, I have a thing for music in different languages! J’ai Deux Amours is such a beautiful song, sung by such a beautiful voice. After listening to this song sung by Madeleine Peyroux, you will be surprised [...]

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Web Designing Ergonomics

Syl — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 06:48:53 +0000

What I love about web designing is that I can work alone in my own space; however, working on websites involves very long days behind the computer. Although I try to get up and move around, it’s hard to break away, especially when I’m in the middle of some intricate code. I took my time [...]

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