Welcome to Hot Bloggity!

When Tamara Thompson’s law firm (Thompson Legal Advisory) showed up at our door, we seized the opportunity to finally get legal advice on some issues that had been plaguing us at Loud Dog.

Hell froze over the other day. Well, momentarily anyway. Steve Ballmer, in an apparent moment of befuddlement and rare “truthiness” seems to have opened the door a crack to the possibility that there’s something about open source that may actually not be a commie pinko plot.

Announcing the new EM-Assist website! Expect to hear about it from lonely doormen, passersby and major media outlets around the world. Seriously. It’s gonna be huge.

In 1440 Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press – a milestone in printing technology. The printing process has evolved through the centuries, and in 2008 the potential of such technology was fully realized. Behold the EM-Assist marketing kit!

What are favicons? Why should you use them? How do you make them? Where do they go? What is the meaning of life? Read on, as I gamely tackle these vexing questions. Well, the last one I can answer now. It is of course, forty two.

Learn how Loud Dog uses Print Style Sheets to make sure our websites look as good on paper as they do on the screen.

We love anything to do with tigers – Frosted Flakes, Siegfried and Roy, Danno Enterprises, even Exxon. That’s why we we’re always excited to work with Tora Trading Systems. We aren’t entirely sure what they do (though it involves stocks and Asia), but they have a tiger in their logo!

By now, surely everyone with an interweb connection has taken note of the stark contrast between the Obama and MacCain campaign’s marketing savvy or complete lack thereof - “let’s go with this lovely lime green backdrop, it really brings out your eyes!”.

We recently had a conversation at the office, which amounted to posing and attempting to answer the question, “what’s the best way to show our clients the value we offer with our client side coding expertise”? Using the web, we decided, is an experience that’s become exponentially familiar as we all rely upon it more and more, yet everything that happens behind the scenes, is for most people effectively still quite a mystery.

As part of almost every web-related project, we write code. Here’s a brief description of the different types of standard deliverables we frequently use in our process.