The Advertising Federation hosted thier annual Addy® Awards Gala at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts last night. Turns out Red Olive won a Gold Addy for The Discovery Gateway Childrens Museum and a Silver Addy for Upper Limit Aviation in the web design and interactive categories. It’s a great feeling when your work is validated by an award voted on by a jury of out of state creatives. Congratulations team, looking forward to 2011!
After completing the new website for Upper Limit Aviation, they invited us down for some one on one helicopter flight training. Being the adventurous bunch we are, we took them up. Ok , just for a moment, we thought we might die if we were handed the controls. After a quick pep talk and laying the groundwork of what all the levers and pedals do we set to the sky in four choppers over the Salt Lake Valley. We each got a half an hour to learn on control at a time until we could handle all of them and fly by ourselves, with an instructor within an inch of the controls of course. If you have never done this I highly suggest you call them and hook it up, it’s freakin awesome! Turned out to be a great team building exercise for us, and we can now say “I flew a helicopter and nobody died!”
Thanks again to the team down at ULA.
Vince and Brad made an appearance on KUTV 2 News this morning with Casey. A PR gig to help promote the upcoming Utah Addys Awards, we had a little fun with the other creative agencies in Salt Lake. This years project was creating ad campaigns to control the negative press surrounding Tiger Woods, Balloon Boys Dad, and John Gosslin. Brad was on team Manic Project, and Vince headed up team “Butt crack of dawn”. If nothing else watch video #3 “Vince Spin Move”. “Oh what an entrance” Vince refuses to admit it but, he’s not an ambi-turner, he can’t turn left.
Red Olive Design is a proud supporter of the American Advertising Federation of Utah , we help out at events, compete in the various competitions, frequent the luncheons, and donate hosting and support for the website www.utahadfed.com
Josh put his dues in as a web design contractor in 2009 and passed with flying colors, as of today Josh signed on as a fellow Olive. Glad to have you on our team and looking forward to actually getting you some of our new business cards made up.
After receiving a Masters Degree in Art, Josh has used his creative abilities in the graphic design field for the past five years. During that time Josh has worked in everything from T-shirts, to large tradeshow displays.
Through his print design experiences, Josh has now found a passion in web design. He is delighted for the opportunity to be working at Red Olive and creating meaningful XHTML markup and beautiful CSS design on a daily basis.
Though undeserving, Josh is fortunate to be partnered with his wife Angelee and two daughters Darby 10 and Klée 8.
We all know that iPhones are for people who just think they need one to be cool, am I right?* Does an iPhone scream “DROID!” at you everytime you get a text though? No, it doesn’t. Therefore a lot of people are making the correct change to the open source and lovable phone, the Motorolla Droid. How hard is it to set up your email though? It’s as easy as saying “DROID!” in a high pitched robotic voice (well maybe a little more difficult).
Step One: Open up the “Mail” application from your menu. (note you can drag this icon to your desktop by tapping the icon and holding it for about 2-3 seconds)
Step two: Once the email application is open you will be prompted to enter in your email address and password for the account you are setting up. If you host email through us your username and password were provided to you at some point during the process. Remember that it will always be your FULL email used for any login regarding email. Click next after you have entered in the required info.
Step Three: now you need to pick the type of account you are going to set up. For this tutorial I’m going to set up an IMAP which basically mimics your real inbox on your phone (i.e. if you delete a message on your phone it is deleted from your computer as well).
Step 4: After you select IMAP from the choices you will be given a few more fields to fill out. The username / password / and IMAP server fields should be automatically populated, however if you are using Red Olive for your email you will need to change them. Remember your username will ALWAYS be your full email address and the IMAP server will change to mail2.redolive.net (mail1.redolive.net if you are an older client 4 yrs+). The port will be host specific so change it to 993 and the security type to SSL (Accept all certificates) — if you host through Red Olive. Click next and it will check to make sure it can connect successfully! If it does yay! If not make sure you double check your password and all settings.
Step 5: Now we need to set up your outgoing mail settings. The server is the server you used in the previous screen (either mail1.redolive.net or mail2.redolive.net). Make sure you change the port to 465 and the security type to SSL and that “Require sign-in.” is checked. Click next and the Droid will verify these settings as well.
That’s all there is to it. After the Droid verifies this info you will be prompted to enter in a few personal settings like the frequency to update, notification, and a nickname for the account. Once those settings are set you’ll be directed to your inbox where you can start enjoying your millions (maybe) of emails!
*note – No I really don’t have anything against the iPhone users out there. We all have fads at some point in our life :0).
P.S. – The droid really is a better phone.
Downtown Salt Lake at the Gateway lies a great little restaurant by the name of Biaggi’s. Good food, great ambiance, and a staff that will put up with our crap. I would like to openly apologize for complaining about the white elephant idea, it turned out to be a blast and I am glad we did it. Thanks again Vince for planning it all. It was a good night, as the black eyed peas would say.
I am extremely proud of the team we have assembled over the last 10 years, simply a fantastic group. You’ll never meet a more honest, hard working, talented, or funny group. Thank you all for what you each bring to the table and making everyday something I look forward to, rather than dread.
New Road’s Young Adult Drug Treatment Center website launches. This website features jQuery, php, and some good ol fashioned search engine friendly URL rewriting. We’ve also implemented a plugin created by our own Aric B. that generates the nav in "UL/LI" format with the CMS system dynamically. And the navigation works with javascript enabled or disabled. Nice work Aric.
First off, let me applaud Microsoft for finally getting a good name for their search engine. Back in July I ran the numbers on a few of our sites and Bing was sitting at about 7% of the total search engine traffic. This time I ran the numbers on a sample of 5 of our SEO sites (to save time) that have been around awhile. By around awhile, I am talking at least 4+ years old.
- 15356 hits (5 sites/30 days of traffic)
- 12,211 from google. 79.5%
- 1,730 from yahoo. 11.3%
- 1,415 from bing. 9.2%
Keep in mind this is by no means scientific, but rather a quick look at a few of our sites. With our sites, Bing looks like it improved. However, it appears to have taken hits from Yahoo and not Google. And since Yahoo and Bing appear to be merging at some point, success needs to be measured by taking hits from Google.
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.
