Okay, real talk, blogging often is hard shit. We care so much about you and your time. We don’t write posts for the sake of writing posts. If we have a passionate topic, you’ll see it here. Otherwise trust we are probably just busy making something great for the citizens of the interwebs.
Factor1Studios.com is donating a website to a deserving West Seattle non-profit. Factor1Studios.com is a web, design and marketing agency that has just opened a West Seattle office. As part of our grand-opening introduction we are completely gifting the design and deployment of a custom website for a high-impact and critical non-profit in the West Seattle…
Read moreWe are firm believers in reusable bottles. Both at home and here in the office. We moved to aluminum bottles after all that mess with BPA in plastics. Usually this is a SIGG brand bottle for me. So we order them online every now and then, as we can’t seem to have too many swanky…
Read moreWe are all about learning new things here at Factor 1. We try to stay on top new design and coding trends, and we love finding new techniques to test and play with. I know we have quite the mix of regular readers here: fellow designers, other coders, and some clients that have no design…
Read moreDid you know factor 1 opened shop 5 years ago this month?!??! What should we do to celebrate?
Read moreI have been telling this to clients for years. meta keywords don’t effect your search results with google. Content and back links do. Google has always eluded to the fact that they ignore them, but today google shares a great blog post and video on the subject. Q: Does Google ever use the “keywords” meta…
Read moreIFESH launched the site a few weeks ago, and is hearing great things about their new site. Esau had this to say about factor1: “I highly recommend using the web design services of Factor1Studios. The firm is very professional, artistic, economic and very easy to work with. A Godsend to non-profits looking to build up-to-date…
Read moreIs it Premium? is it Plus? Ultra? What makes it all 3? Car companies do it too. Employee Plus Plus + pricing. At what point is the ‘one-up-manship’ creating stupid product names? KISS: Keep It Simple Stupid.
Read moreno time for details today. we have been busy launching all kinds of great sites. www.GetCollegeFunding.org www.WelcomeToMaricopa.com www.MidwaySD.com www.DPchurch.net www.IFESH.org www.EngageCityChurch.com – Our first client from Australia. From Will @ Engage City: Hey BIG thanks to the Factor 1 Crew for their amazing work on our brand spankin new website. We love it!
Read moreThe number one concern in any organizations quest for a new website is the cost. Everyone generally wants the best work for the cheapest price. I would say we see 4 out of 5 clients base most of their decision on the price. Sure some things like features, quality, and experience come into play. It…
Read moreGimp This image editing program has been compared to Photoshop with all it’s tools and editing capabilities. However, the good news is that it’s completely free. The program comes with tons of cool stuff and allows you to crop, resize, and retouch photos. The bad news, is that it’s not geared toward those that haven’t…
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