Some thoughts here and there.

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.

 

iphone 3g – who is getting one? & the beauty of apple marketing

So maybe I am an apple geek, or their marketing department knows how to get in my head, but I still find myself wanting (not by any means needing) an iphone. What is it about apple that does it? Its not that the phone is that much better than my Moto q, Maybe its faster,…

By Matt Adams
July 11, 2008

Factor 1 makes the local news.

We have a nice little profile on us over at 85239.com. our towns local media source. http://www.85239.com/BUSINESS/BusinessArticleDetails.aspx?mid1=432&&ArticleID=3760 Yes I find it odd to have my head that large in a photo.

By Matt Adams
July 8, 2008

free photo editing resources for the photoshop free user

So a lot of our clients love the flexibility we give them on their websites. They can add images to pages or blogs, and often a nice marketing / promotional type image to their home page. Here is the catch. Most of our clients dont have a solid resource for these small graphics. We dont…

By Matt Adams
July 7, 2008

Friends dont let friends use IE6.

I found a great website to help promote the extermination of IE 6 use. www.savethedevelopers.org I normally use Safari. But Opera is growing on me. It has some slick features. So if you are a developer, help promote this. If you are a client / potential client, please stop using IE 6. Seriously, it was…

By Matt Adams
June 30, 2008

Interesting thing about creating value

I have been thinking about the value of high milage cars. And something I find funny, is sometimes the balance between usability and actual MPG is so vast, that I fail to see the point, yet many consumers are hooked by the car companies that have created hype and value. 3 cars for comparison The…

By Matt Adams
June 29, 2008

Audience and screen size on different mediums.

Is this funny, or it just me? In the world of web, when we have 25% of the viewers on a small screen, we accommodate to them. We base our site designs to fit to the weakest, least advanced of the population. Yet in the world of TV, now that 20% of the market has…

By Matt Adams
June 23, 2008

Stuff I find on the interwebs.

Welcome to another exciting edition of “stuff Matt finds on the web”. Wow the internet never ceases to amaze me. So many amazing developers, designers and some times idiots live on the web. Email Spam Blocker – Enkoder This tool is sweet. Hides your email from spammers. Comes in 2 flavors. An online edition, and…

By Matt Adams
June 18, 2008

Is it stealing?

So I browse the web. A lot. I tend to look at a lot of design firm websites. So today I pose this question: Is using apple application icons on your site stealing? I see this the most when browsing design firm sites. I see they use the great little system preferences icon. Or the…

By Matt Adams
June 18, 2008

Site launches – June 3

More Site launches. Westridge Church Westridge Church has been in progress for a long time. The team at westridge and the factor 1 team has spent many hours on fine tuning, designing and developing a knock out site. Its probably one of my favorites out right now. Westridge.com Church Relevant This is probably the craziest…

By Matt Adams
June 3, 2008

Oak Leaf Church Site Launch

We launched a few sites in the past few weeks. One noteworthy site is Oak Leaf church. Two years ago we created a pretty insane, flash based CMS site for Oak leaf. This new site is so much cleaner, smoother, and uses our database driven Monsoon CMS. This allowed us to use some new coding…

By Matt Adams
May 30, 2008