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Inside the Code - Grid systems are the visual design structure for building a web page.  To a designer, a web page might be made up of 12 or 16 equally sized, invisible columns.  These invisible columns are grouped together in order to create...
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Tech - While popular media might think of a hacker as someone who breaks into computer systems, defaces websites and steals personal information, it turns out there’s a lot more to the term.   Hackers were, and still are,...
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Advertising - Many of the services and media companies that we use daily rely on advertising as their main source of revenue.  Google, AOL, Facebook, Twitter and The New York Times all make their money by selling ads. Whether you are interested...
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Strategic - By now, if you are a follower of all things tech, you have probably heard the term “social graph.”  The social graph is a collection of data points noting what you and your friends (Facebook and Twitter friends that is) like on the...
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Resources - Web analytics allow you to track how many people visited your site, how long they stayed and what they did there.  If you work in an industry that is even remotely integrated with the web, then you’ve inevitably heard people talking...
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Inside the Code - Wireframes are sketches, drawn by hand or using a computer program, that show the features, content and functionality of a website or software application. Wireframes are the blueprints of the tech world, they give you a rough sense of...
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Techs and the City - There has been a lot of controversy surrounding Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg’s newly released book “Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead.” We have yet to read the book (just picked up our copy yesterday!), but frankly,...
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Techs and the City - Conferences are great for keynote speakers, panel discussions, and hearing from the horse’s mouth about the latest developments in your field of techspertise. But what they are really awesome for is making new...