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Monthly Archives: June 2005

Powerful taglines

By on Jun 17, 2005 in Brand and Identity Design

Good communication is part of good design, and part of good corporate communication is a pithy tagline. Our tagline is “We make websites easy to use.” An article in this month’s UPA Voice gave me some food for thought.

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Fifty Tools for Writing

By on Jun 14, 2005 in Search Engine Optimization & Marketing, Web Design

Roy Peter Clark, a “Senior Scholar” at the Poynter Institute gathers together his Fifty Top Writing Tips for our purusal. Recognizing that design is more than looking good leads naturally to embracing good writing as an integral part of good design. Thanks, Roy!

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Four Reasons to Design a Custom Web App

By on Jun 13, 2005 in Mobile, Web Applications

SaaS solutions aren’t always faster, better, or cheaper than a custom solution. Here are four reasons why a custom-designed web app can be better than something off-the-shelf.

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Attack of the Spambots!

By on in Web Applications, Web Design, Web Engineering

E-mail is definitely one of Loud Dog’s critical business tools. It touches everything – from project management to developing new business. In fact, our first contact with new clients is frequently through e-mail.

Unfortunately, if your company displays an e-mail addresse on its website, it will be found by a spambot – an automated program that scours the web for e-mail addresses. This article explores how we can defeat the spambots!

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Winning the SPAM wars

By on Jun 12, 2005 in Web Engineering

I don’t like spam. I don’t know anyone that does. Luckily, there are a variety of tools and techniques that help me win the spam wars. The most obvious – or at least the most well known – are the variety of programs that filter, sort and block spam headed for your inbox. Less obvious are the ways you can prevent spammers from getting your e-mail address in the first place. Since the first is really the domain of IT folks and System Administrators, this article focuses on how to prevent spammers from getting your e-mail, or at least lessening the possibility.

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Mark Logic Launches New Corporate Site

By on Jun 6, 2005 in Loud Dog Projects

Mark Logic announced the launch of their new corporate site on Friday, June 3. Designed and programmed by Loud Dog, the site features clean, straightforward design, fully standards-compliant programming and an easy-to-use architecture. We primarily worked with Ann Smith and Mark Logic’s “three Davids” on this project: David Taber, Mark Logic’s acting VP of Marketing;…

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