Utah Web Design Blog

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.

The Utah residential and commercial painting experts launch their new site – designed by redolive. Peck’s Painting has been a trusted company since 1974, offering truly a “A Better Brand Of Painting.”

Check out the new site and take a look at some of their past work in their commercial and residential painting galleries. www.peckspainting.com

Red Olive design, a utah website design firm located in South Jordan, crafted a stunning new look and feel for the wonderful staff at Mity Lite.

Mity lite is the leading manufacturer in lightweight tables, folding chairs, stacking chairs, etc.  They came to Red Olive with a goal in mind, and that goal was to enhance their web presence so that they looked like the leading manufacturer.

Habitat for Humanity, a project that operates solely on donations to build housing for those who could otherwise never afford to have a place to call home. After reviewing the work we had done in the past we sat down and talked about potential, after all was said and done Red Olive has been signed to design and develop the new look of Habitat for Humanity. 

We feel strongly about their mission and donated our time to help expand their reach, in return they graciously offered to allow us to sponsor thier high visibility 2009 Golf Tournement.

The National Safety Council has awarded the Utah Safety Council website with the most Outstanding Safety Website award of all it’s 47 chapters. We develop web sites for the love of it but an unexpected award once in a while doesn’t hurt either. Thanks again for the opportunity to work on your project guys!

If you work with MS SQL server and have databases that handle lots of transactions then you no doubt have encountered the .ldf file growing to insane sizes if left unchecked. A large LDF file will result in the web application running extremely slow or most likely just timing out, not to mention affecting the performance of other databases setup on that same server. We used to manually detach the database rename the .ldf, once you re-attach the .mdf file it would start up a new .ldf log file and things would run speedy once again. While that worked it resulted in downtime, wasted resources, and unhappy clients.

Here is a solution that works perfectly and is automated. (assuming sql server 2000 or 2005 standard here)

1. Launch Enterprise Manager and open Management
2. Right click on Database Maintenance Plans > New plan
3. Pick all your options to backup your database with the schedule and save the plan
4. Drop down SQL Server Agent
5. Right click on Jobs > New Job
6. Give it a name and click on the second tab “steps“
7. Add a second step under the initial backup by clicking New
8. Choose Type TSQL, pick the database, and paste in this command

BACKUP LOG dbnamehere WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY
DBCC SHRINKFILE(dbnamehere_Log, 1)

9. Save it, click on step 1 hit adavanced and set “On success action:” to “Goto Step: 2” or it won’t run.

We have a log file that used to run to 18 to 30GB quickly and now it is 1MB on a daily basis, pretty sweet and with no real down time.  We have tried backing up the log and tried the built in shriking options with no luck, never worked.  Sure there are plenty of other methods you can use, hope this helps someone else out there facing the same problem.

The final release of the day that is pretty cool, considering they deal with large metal structures, is our steel fabrication contractor clients — S & S Steel Fabrication. This is a triumph of inventive Flash and graphic design. Very beautifully designed both on the front and back end. The site feel is macho and tough like kick to the eye with a steel toe boot. And yes they really did work with NASA and helped construct the Universal Studios Terminator II ride, and that is awesome.

The portfolio page they have is quite a wower, with a nice automatic photo slide show of some of the steel structures and projects. Anyways I can go on and on, but after all is said and done, I think that this site will help raise their stock in the steel community. Our creative Utah Graphic designers at Red Olive are implementing their ever honed skills in design, whether its a Flash element or behind the scenes. And we have our contacts at S & S to thank for their business — enjoy the new site.