Utah Web Design Blog

Just another reason why Google is the best. Thanks for the letter and window decal.

If you haven’t already, please put your business on Google Maps. It’s free and it takes 30 seconds +-. More and more people will be getting cell phones that are powered by Google Maps. Do it for your customers. Do it for your own SEO benefit.

Do it.

Upper Limit Aviation’s new Helicopter Training website takes flight.

Website Features:
Flash
jQuery
php

Brief History of ULA:
Upper Limit Aviation, located in Salt Lake City, UT, was founded in the spring of 2004 by Lois Reid and Sean Reid, her son and business partner, as a single-aircraft flight school operating under FAR Part 61 and FAR 91 commercial operations. Currently, with 11 FAR Part 141 certificates, ULA offers flight training under both FAR Part 141 and Part 61. Additionally, ULA is eligible to utilize VA benefits and is authorized for commercial operations under FAR Part 135, 133, and 137.

Shapepoint’s site gets a redesign with parsable text and improved look and feel. Shapepoint is a U.S.-based corporation helping clients from around the globe navigate and manage a wide-array of manufacturing initiatives in China.

There is a school of thought that externally referencing Google for your js library helps lower load times and is the preferred method of inclusion. If the visitor has frequented another website calling the same file, it would be cached in the browser and forgo the 50-60kb download. While this is true, have you considered the risk of doing so? What if the unthinkable happens and Google has a hiccup. Well today was one of those what ifkind of days for Google, the googleapi servers (“http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js “) became unresponsive and hence so did some of our older applications.  Interestingly enough, we had such a debate internally a while back and deduced that we would no longer reference externally hosted libraries for just that reason, thank god for meetings.

Moral of the story being, a savings of 60KB is not worth your application failing. 

After months of whittling down the list of web design firms with the not only the interactive capability but the usability experience to build an engaging site, Discovery Gateway has made a decision on a firm to redesign thier existing site.  Our design team really digs the opportunity to work on projects that have no boundaries and where they can really express some creative freedom. Yeah don’t get to carried away guys, still needs to perform and be usable to kids and parents.

DG comped us some family passes to get some first hand experience on what they were all about, so we went this last weekend.  Let’s just say my daughter had a blast! They have everything from a full size Life Flight helicopter on the roof, to a mock up KSL 5 news room studio there.  They give kids the chance to not only learn about science, art, etc, but also real careers. I was born a tinkerer so it was right up my alley. Thanks for the opp, let the creative begin.

Ever searched around looking for the mime-type for the newer Microsoft Word .docx file type?  Search no more. It comes in handy for web development when you have an uploader app in PHP or ASP and need to determine the file type. Tested in PHP and works perfect. Hope this saves someone some time searching.

.docx
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document

.doc (old school word)
application/msword


Got an extra 12,000 Lego pieces laying around? Have you ever wondered what your corporate logo would look like fashioned entirely out of  Legos?  Go get a few cases of Red Bull and tear down that lame Empire State Building you and your dad put together back in 95 and find out.  Below is a time lapse video of our gigantic 40″ X 80″ Red Olive Logo being built out of 12,000+ Legos.

<!– THE MAKING OF THE GINORMOUS LEGO LOGO –>

Red Olive, a utah web design firm, is honored for the opportunity to design and develop the brand new website for SportEar which is the company responsible for introducing the first Micro Comfort Canal 100% Digital hearing/protection device to the sportsman.

SportEar’s products are like none else, they protect one’s hearing while maintaining the ability to hear when participating in activities such as hunting, trap/skeet shooting, wing shooting, auto racing, concerts, etc.

The new site is scheduled to be completed in April.

You haven’t had Toffee until you’ve had Toffee by English Tofee Anytime. Typically I only see or eat toffee around the Holidays… But ETA, is true to it’s name. After you taste English Toffee Anytime’s delicious toffee, you will agree that this stuff is great anytime. Our entire office is now addicted to this wonderful english toffee. We have had the opportunity to run a quick Utah SEO campaign for this Online Toffee Store. Step 1: We sent in some samples of their english toffee to the search engines: Here are the results:

Truthfully, we didn’t really send in samples to the search engines. But we did do some on-site optimization. Thanks ETA!

Red Olive, a utah web design firm located in South Jordan, recently was hired by Cluster Resources to perform some identity and web design work for their new business venture.  Work that will be carried out will be 3 logos, one for their new sister company, one for the operating environment of their product , and one for their product.  In addition to the logos, Red Olive will have the opportunity to design their new website.

Since 2001, Cluster Resources, Inc. has been a leading provider in the workload and resource management software and services for cluster, grid and utility-based computing environments.

All of us here at Red Olive are excited to be working with such a great company.