It was quite a trip to Seattle the last couple days, with Gary and Rob, to get our level one Umbraco certification and become one of the few Umbraco solution providers in North America. I’ve gone through the crash-course with Jason already, and created about seven websites with it, and gathered a working knowledge of [...]
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The da Vinci Days Web Design Process
Alan Ballard
Web Designer
Alan has been the designer for ProWorks for over 4 years, and is responsible for creating web designs and interactive graphics with great aesthetics and optimal user functionality. His responsibilities also include building his and others’ designs into an HTML/CSS framework. Alan’s technical skills include Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and HTML/CSS.
The da Vinci Days [...]
Jen Grant and Matt Riopelle Lead Social Media for Business in Corvallis
Two social media professionals from the Albany-Corvallis area, Matt Riopelle and Jennifer Grant joined the Social Media for Business group today to lead a discussion titled “Put Down the Megaphone, How to Talk Social.”
The turn out was fantastic. I didn’t do a head count but we did have people standing and sitting on the floor, which I [...]
Notes and Blog Post Ideas from Social Media for Business in Corvallis
The topic for Social Media for Business in Corvallis today is: So You Have a Blog. Now What? Here are some of our notes, ideas and a list of post topics (in case you are wondering what to write about).
NOTES FROM SOCIAL MEDIA FOR BUSINESS TODAY:
“Merit credibility” and “Invite feedback” where the two most selected reasons for [...]
Happy Birthday Umbraco Video
Old friends, new friends and fellow web professionals Tamara Hill-Tanquist, David Hill, Micheal Laport and Chris Lee joined the ProWorks Team in Corvallis to join the global celebration of Umbraco’s 5th birthday. Here is a little video to share the fun and our thanks with the Umbraco community.
Umbraco is an open source Content Management System [...]
Happy Holidays from the ProWorks Extended Family
Happy Holidays everyone!
We made you a ProWorks Holiday Card
List of Great Corvallis Area Business, Technology, and Entrepreneur Events
Recently I participated in a radio interview with Andy Vaughn on KBVR and we got on the topic of how many cool things there are to get involved with and attend in the Corvallis area. For the size, Corvallis and its nearby communities have a lot going on.
Sometimes its hard to find out about all [...]
Thoughts and Suggestions for Startup Weekend Corvallis
I recently participated in Startup Weekend Corvallis and I thought I would share my experience and offer a few suggestions about how it might be improved for next time.
Thoughts:
I generally enjoyed the experience. It was interesting to work with new people (especially Michael and Chris at Peak Internet!) and I think we created something useful [...]
Selecting Social Media Guides
John Bergquist, a fellow social media professional for whom I have a high professional and personal regard recently published a blog post suggesting that the title of “social media expert” is overstated if we consider his observation:
“Social Media is such a new frontier that there really is no way that someone could honestly claim to [...]
Creating Blind Accessible Web Sites and Applications
The reality for more than 20 million Americans who are blind or have low-vision is that the web is generally an unfriendly place. As web application developers we can choose to improve this situation or continue to carelessly contribute to it. The good news is that many of things that web developers and designers can [...]