Tag Archives: Business

Emerging Trends in Web Design

February 16, 2011    Branding, Design, Fun & Facts, Internet Marketing, Marketing, Web Development

We're gazing into the future to identify new trends in web design

We’ve been extremely busy around the office lately. We launched our new site and are gearing up to celebrate 10 years in business. Looking at our old site and the past 10 years got us thinking: what will the future be like? As a marketing and digital design agency it is our job to stay current. We subscribe to industry publications. We attend conferences and seminars. Some of us are even pursuing advanced degrees. All of these activities provide insights that help answer the important question: what’s next in the world of web design? Read More

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R.I.P. Flash

October 18, 2010    Design, Internet Marketing, Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Web Development

When considering a new website or a website redesign, it is easy to get lured by the glitzy showiness that a Flash-only site can provide. Before you go that route, stop and read why we at Alter Imaging think a Flash-only site is a bad idea.

A Little Background on Flash

Adobe’s Flash is a multimedia platform that allows designers to create interactive and animated web graphics (or even entire pages) for a wide variety of devices and browsers.  Many web designers use Flash because of its “design once, run anywhere” functionality and for the past 15 years (Flash debuted in 1996), this had been true.

Welcome to the new landscape….where Wired Magazine [October 2010] boldly proclaims “the Web is dead.” While their headlines was clearly hyperbolic and intended to sell issues, it does illustrate an important change in internet use:

More and more people are accessing internet content outside of the traditional desktop/laptop browser. Hand-held (iPhone, iPad, iPod) and set-top devices (iTV) are the new way we access content.
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The Future of Business on the Social Web

October 26, 2009    Social Media Marketing

Last Friday, we packed up our suitcases and headed over to Durham, NC for the 2009 Social Media Business Forum.

It was a fantastic conference that brought together some of the brightest minds in the social media scene including Laura Fitton (author of Twitter for dummies), Jason Falls (Principal over at Social Media Explorer), John Andrews (Founder and Managing Partner at Collective Bias), and Lucretia Pruitt (Director of Social Media at Collective Bias.)

They spoke on the keynote panel addressing “the future of business on the social web” You can watch the video below.

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