Browsing all articles from April, 2007
The Wow Factor: Being on Digg and being Dissed.
So yesterday we were on digg for our recent launch of client site SimplyFired.com. Obviously we are really proud of the work we did for them and don’t mind the attention, but what is with the Digg user base? Don’t get me wrong, it is nice to see that some people actually read our little [...]
Building Web 2.0: A Case Study for Simply Fired’s Redesign
So today the Media Crumb team, with the help of Simply Hired’s Ops team, launched Simply Fired.com into the wide open space of the web. It was a two month long process for MC and something we really enjoyed working on. It is not often that a design & development firm can say they have [...]
Sometimes It Pays To Not Copy Your Competition
For a small startup company like, TechDiversions.com, we’ve learned something immensely useful – it’s not always wise to mimic your competition when designing a front-page layout for your website. This is especially true when your competition is highly brick & morter based while you’re purely an online entity. For instance, a few of our competing [...]
Digg-Clone CMS of Choice?
After working on the Pligg CMS and experimenting with the Drupal “Vote” modules I’m no longer torn between which management system is the best. What makes one better than the other? Well, Pligg looks, feels and acts much like digg.com so utilizing Pligg gives the developer a direct focus on the goals: a digg clone. [...]