FrozenBlues Media Twin Cities Web Development Agency - Frozen Blues

Survivors Studio

frozenblues — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:22:33 +0000

FrozenBlues is pleased to announce its part in helping Survivors’ Studio (a service of nonprofit organization Survivors’ Training) bring it’s website to life. Survivors’ Studio is a health center devoted to helping women use fitness as one tool in their fight against cancer. Our work included adapting a 3rd party design done in Flash and importing elements to create a custom WordPress Theme, a platform that allows the client to update all aspects of the site including text, photo uploads, event calendars, RSS news feeds and more.

Log File (Referrer) Spam & How We Block It

frozenblues — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:18:34 +0000

If you watch your website visitor statistics you may have been baffled (and then annoyed) to see that the Referrer section - (called Links from an External Page in Awstats) which lists sites that have sent visitors to your website - may contain bogus listings. No visitors actually arrived at your website from some-icky-spam-site.com, but the log file seems to indicate that people did. This is a new form of Spam, created by automated programs set up to visit your site with faked referrer headers just for the purpose of putting links to spam sites in your weblogs. Why are they spamming your website statistics logs? (more…)

Amundson Family Dentistry

frozenblues — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:29:00 +0000

Amundson Family Dentistry is a new dental practice serving Cottage Grove, Woodbury, and the greater Twin Cities metro area. FrozenBlues was pleased to help by pulling together a complete package of design and custom WordPress programming to bring the site to life!

Cancer Legal Line

frozenblues — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:35:29 +0000

Cancer Legal Line, a charitable non-profit dedicated to providing critical information for cancer survivors and families has just launched their website and FrozenBlues is proud to have been involved in the design and programming, including a custom content management system that allows the org to maintain all aspects of the content and navigation. Check it out at www.cancerlegalline.org!

Keep Your Domain Name Safe

frozenblues — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:33:45 +0000

You know it’s true - you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone. That could apply to your domain name (your .com, .net, etc.). Imagine your business cards, signs, print marketing materials, Email addresses, all referring to a .com that you don’t own anymore. Customers go to your site and find it missing - or worse - with other stuff there that you have no control over.

To prevent this from happening to you… (more…)

Action Photographs for Powerful First Impressions

frozenblues — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:40:55 +0000

We frequently get comments about how good our projects look — positive first-impressions people have after visiting the website. Besides clean, attractive design, there is a strategy we recommend to clients. A staple in the world of print advertising, it’s all too often overlooked on websites: make the product and service come alive with photography featuring people in action shots (browsing the store, using the product, etc.). So simple yet so powerful. (more…)

Strategic Marketing: Branding, Value Proposition, Target Market

frozenblues — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:28:00 +0000

When you read about marketing in connection with the web, it seems that 99.9% of it is focused on tactics to drive traffic. Certainly there is a place for that. What needs to come first however, is a strategy for what should happen when that traffic reaches your website. Will you make progress toward the goals of your marketing plan, such as gaining perception as more technically up-to-date, or as a higher quality provider than your competition? If your goal is internet sales or leads, will visitors find themselves motivated to buy or make an inquiry? That’s where marketing strategy elements like branding, positioning, and targeting come in. Neglect these strategic elements and the rest of your marketing expenditures are at risk of being wasted. (more…)

Keep Domain Registration & Hosting Separate

frozenblues — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 21:33:00 +0000

Most domain registrars now offer discount hosting as well. Don’t purchase it! We have many clients who did, and have been dissatisfied: (more…)

FrozenBlues WordPress / Dynamic Flash

frozenblues — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:29:44 +0000

The portfolio viewer you are seeing right now is a dynamic Flash / PHP application that we developed. The application digests posts from the Portfolio category, and sends them to the Flash. Cool!

Flash Development

frozenblues — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:19:58 +0000

FrozenBlues offers custom Flash development, from logo treatments to complex dynamic applications that transmit information to / from the server.

Check out our portfolio — the portfolio display element is a dynamic Flash / PHP application we created to display WordPress posts!