The Grand Rapids Griffins unveiled their 20th season logo today and my immediate reaction was of serious disappointment. Not like when I wasn’t happy about what choices they made for their “fan designed” jersey contest. This was professionally designed. There’s no excuse for this. The Griffins say the following about the design: The logo, designed by […]
A friend of mine who’s actively looking for a job pinged me yesterday morning looking for advice on what salary to request. My friend’s requested salary was a required field on the application form. I don’t like this, and I said as much via Twitter. Asking an applicant for a salary requirement before letting them meet […]
I’ve got a high school reunion coming up, which means I’ve been added to a group for it on Facebook, which has immediately been followed by a small avalanche of friend requests from people I haven’t spoken to in years. It got me thinking about the different terminology that social media sites use. On LinkedIn, […]
I was staring in anger at my car thermometer this morning when I had a little bit of a revelation. You think about the weather and, in general, people understand concepts. Hot and cold. Dry and wet. We’ve attached numbers to them and we know what they mean but only because we’ve made this association […]
The site for the Pine Ridge Condo Association was developed with communication in mind. Prior to the site’s creation, all electronic communication between the neighborhood residents was handled via email, with no single contact list maintained. Members of the Board of Directors had the most accurate lists but, in the interest of privacy, those weren’t […]
The Library Orientation Exchange program at Eastern Michigan University had come to O6 in 2007 to turn their then-static listing of resources into a database-driven, searchable index. When it came time for a site redesign, they came back to us. While LOEX’s “mothersite” was the primary focus of the project, much of the design was […]
Photographer Heather Bostater came to O6 in need of a web site that could showcase her work and allow potential clients to reach her. We brought in Nick Gorsline of Pulp+Pixels to create the design, utilizing his experience to build a layout in which Heather’s photos could speak for themselves. O6 turned Nick’s design into […]
O6 originally completed the e-commerce system for Mythlogic Computers in August of 2007 and by early 2011 it was time for an update. The first Mythlogic checkout was a single page system, with shipping and billing information entered on the same page and immediately submitted for acceptance or rejection. The same address had to be […]
Note: O6 Web Services is not affiliated with, nor does it endorse any political party or entity. MissiveMitten was the follow-up to the MDelegate site that O6 built in the lead up to the 2010 Michigan Gubernatorial election. Following the election, the MDelegate team wanted to create a site for information dissemination in the mold […]
Note: O6 Web Services is not affiliated with, nor does it endorse any political party or entity. The MDelegate site was built in the lead up to the 2010 Michigan Gubernatorial election. It was part of a Republican grass-roots effort to share information and reach out to voters. The basic site design was provided by […]