White House website is open for all
I am not sure how much of this is going to be exciting for consumers out there, but this is pretty awesome for web developers. The White House official website (www.whitehouse.gov) is built on an open source platform called Drupal. Drupal, amoung other open source (another words, “free” code base platforms) such as WordPress and…
Awellness Focus
Holly Marek is a new inspirational entrepreneur with the goal of giving back to the community. She is putting her years of experience to use and looked to us to help develop her brand. First things first, Awellness Focus needed a logo! So we went to the drawing board and got to work. The icon…
Logorama!
French Studio H5’s Logorama has been getting all hyped up since receiving an Oscar for best animated short film, so I wanted to see what the big fuss was about. The short film is amazing and includes more than 2,500 logos that took them over 6 years to produce! The Oscar was well deserved so…
Constant Contact vs. VerticalResponse vs. MailChimp
Email marketing is a very affordable way to promote your business online. There are many online companies that provide this type a service. I had run-ins with many of the but the following 3 really stood out: Constant Contact VerticalResponse MailChimp As an owner of a small business myself, I understand that there are many…
Evaluate your website in 50 questions
I was doing some late night research (what else is new?) and came across a very useful post by Carsten Cumbrowski, born in Germany, now living in California, specializing in website development and internet marketing. This is a great overall check list that you should review prior to designing a website, and then again, prior…
Welcome to our blog
Welcome to DIF Design’s official blog. The blog went live today, March 22, 2010, but we have been trying to create some useful content to post for last few weeks. Our blog is going to be a place where you can come to and see what’s been going on with us. Once is a while…
DIF Design, GreenSpringfield and PeoplesBank in the news
As some of you may know, I have started a green initiative called GreenSpringfield. GreenSpringfield is an organization designed to connect business professionals and offer networking opportunities to stimulate environmental business development and economic growth in Western Massachusetts. Together with John Judge, City of Springfield’s Chief Development Officer, we developed a GreenSeal initiative to foster…
Internet Explorer 9
As we all know, Microsoft released their “new” operating system in November 2009, called Windows 7. Well, Microsoft has also been working very hard on trying to enrich not only the desktop experience, but also the online experience of their users. Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) browser took the back burner spot with the release of…
Quantity vs. Quality
Quantity vs. Quality?! Both are very important, but which one should take the first place in social media and networking? I was talking to a client a few weeks ago about their Facebook Fan Page, and the words that came out of their mouth were, “Facebook is about friends, not friendships”. This statement has stuck…
Freedom Memorandum
Say hello — and meet the newest addition to our portfolio…The Freedom Memorandum Logo! We recently chatted with Kim George, author of Coaching Into Greatness: 4 Steps to Success in Business and Life, on creating a logo for the Freedom Memorandum. Her 9-page dream has turned into a book and we were honored to help…
25 years of .com
25 years ago, today, the Internet received its first .com registration, when the Symbolics Computer Company registered Symbolics.com. To this day, there has been close to 84,000,000 .com domains registered. Over 500,000 domains are still being registered monthly. These numbers are crazy compered to the number of domains registered the first year – only 6…
Twitter releases location tracking
Twitter releases their location tracking capability. Now, you can turn the “location” on and your followers will be able to see your location. With little bit of work with Twitter API and Google Maps API you can visually represent your Twitter location on Google Maps. Pretty awesome functionality, not so sure about people’s privacy though.