Headspace Halifax Website Design

Lessons learned from designing truck lightning

Posted on January 10th, 2008 | By Kyle Racki Filed under Business 4 Comments

It can be said that Flash is a niche area of web development. Generally speaking, “typical” web developers (and by typical, I mean developers who build websites using web scripting languages, like PHP or Ruby, build databases with MySQL, and mark-up the front-end with HTML, and style it with CSS)…Read More

Top 20 Websites of 2007

Posted on January 03rd, 2008 | By Kyle Racki Filed under Design 0 Comments

Ah, don’t we love end of year lists? It’s a time to reflect on the strides made over the last year. To gain inspiration. To see the foundation that’s been laid in the past, and the pedestal to spring from in the future. Oh, and it’s also a chance to…Read More

The distinction between design and advertising

Posted on December 21st, 2007 | By Kyle Racki Filed under Design, Marketing 0 Comments

It’s been said that ‘advertising is a knock-knock joke, design is a conversation.’

Interestingly enough, many firms that began as design boutiques, eventually turned into advertising agencies. There was just more money in advertising. Why is it that advertising and design is perceived this way?

There’s definitely a quick-turnaround mentality…Read More

How many design options do you show?

Posted on November 28th, 2007 | By Kyle Racki Filed under Design, Business 0 Comments

Last week on Boagworld, Paul Boag interviewed Andy Budd from Clear Left, a well-respected web design agency in England.
Andy commented on how they do things differently than many agencies in that they only offer one design to clients. You can read the interview transcript…Read More

Three isn’t company

Posted on October 26th, 2007 | By Kyle Racki Filed under Design, Business 0 Comments

There are three kinds of service. Good, fast and cheap. Pick any two. You know the rule right?

This is easy to remember when we offer others our services, however it’s easy for us to forget when we have to commission others to do our work. How does this work…Read More

12 things you need to know before commissioning a website - part 2: Hosting, Domain and Bandwidth

Posted on October 16th, 2007 | By Kyle Racki Filed under Business 2 Comments

This is part two of a six-part series. It is meant to give someone relatively new (or simply overwhelmed) to the web the information they need to commission a website for their company. It is broken up into 12 bite sized pieces:

  1. Know your audience
  2.…Read More

Is video right for your website?

Posted on September 09th, 2007 | By Kyle Racki Filed under Marketing 0 Comments

Video has certainly gained popularity since most internet service providers have been able to offer high-bandwidth connections. After all, most people would rather watch a movie than read a book. A powerful image can move you to tears. So can beautiful words. Music can affect you emotionally. Combine all these…Read More