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Posted by Rob [creative director]
Posted on 05-09-2008 under Creative Business, Development

You may have noticed that we here at Frye / Wiles post in our blog a lot. Why, you ask, do we do it? Are we really that full of ourselves?

Well, yes. But that’s not the reason. When it comes down to it, Google (and the other major search engines) loves blogs. They prioritize indexing on blogs (and other sites that are updated very frequently), to really a quite ridiculous degree. (more…)

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Posted by Archa [web developer]
Posted on 05-08-2008 under Creative Business

Photo courtesy of cboyack

Throughout the day of fast paced and sometimes frustrating world of web development, I find myself sometimes less focused on the task at hand. I don’t know if it’s because I’m getting older and I developed AADHD, or hopefully it’s just the case of not staying focused.

Thanks to my co-worker Julian Sutter, he sent over a link from Zen Habits that helps with maintaining focus on the job. Such examples are: Take more breaks (my personal favorite, maybe not for Rob or Nate), make tasks that you can check off, and turning off extra inputs such as RSS feeds like from Digg (I am totally guilty of this).

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Posted by Rob [creative director]
Posted on 04-07-2008 under Creative Business, Press Release

Somewhere, in between all that pesky client work, we found time to completely redevelop the Frye / Wiles site (by now, you’ve probably realized that, though…either that or you’ve never been here before).  Anyway, poke around, there is lots of great information to be consumed.  Enjoy!

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Posted by Nate [operations director]
Posted on 11-20-2007 under Creative Business, Development

Websites take time to develop.

Especially custom websites that integrate clean design with intuitive web functionality. So, not something like this. And as much as clients would love, and actually expect in some cases, for us to push the magic ‘make website NOW’ button, it’s quite obviously unrealistic. Obvious to people who have even a bare minimum understanding as to how the Internet works. Sadly, however, many clients mistakenly think that developing a website takes about as much time and skill as replacing a shower head. (more…)

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Posted by Justin [programmer]
Posted on 10-11-2007 under Creative Business, Design, Development

Since we, as a firm, and myself particularly, tend to gravitate toward web applications rather than web sites, we often find ourselves challenged to originate new interfaces and layouts that are not only conducive to simplicity and ease in usability, but also focused on achieving whatever, usually monetary, goals that the project may specify.  Because of this, I find myself asking the question of what entails not only an effective, but an intuitive layout.

As the bright ones among you may have inferred, this is a simply a sneak-peak into my next article.  We’ll be discussing layouts centered around two key points: effectiveness, and intuitiveness.

That’s it.  Stick around.

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Posted by Julian [designer]
Posted on 10-10-2007 under Creative Business, Office nonsense

Okay. so Its my birthday. I made kick ass brownies that no one but me could eat due to their nut content. Party time right? As I rolled home with my evening planned out, a party by myself with an xbox and possible web coding later in the evening, I got to thinking “when should we as developers celebrate.”

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Posted by Rob [creative director]
Posted on 09-13-2007 under Creative Business

Schedules. Timelines. Proofs. Deadlines. Changeorders. Yuck.

The strange niche occupied by creative professionals is sometimes hard to come to terms with. We are, in effect, whores. We gravitate toward our industries at the beginning because we love doing what we do - say web design, for example. But the young idealistic web designer (I’m gonna change the world with great web design!) will very quickly learn one thing - what we do, what we love to do, is not for us. It’s for the client. We do it for money. The client, that pervert. Yuck. (more…)