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Archives Jun 2009
FIREWORKS Sold Here!!!
I live in the wonderful town of Pleasant View, Tennessee. It’s located about a 30 minute drive northwest of Nashville. Yesterday, as I passed exit 31 on I-24, I saw a sign in bold red letters proclaiming… “FIREWORKS Sold Here!” Nothing too fancy or flashy, just red paint on a white sign.
I began to recall fond memories from my childhood… memories of the all-too-seldom family vacation fireworks stop. At every exit with fireworks I would beg my parents to pull over and let me partake of explosive goodness. I’m not sure if it was the idea of blowing something up, or the large red arrow that caught my attention, but regardless…I wanted them…NOW.
6 Tips and Tricks for Designing with the 960 Grid System
If you’re not familiar with CSS frameworks, you should be. They create a baseline from which designers and themers can create websites, standardizing basic layout options with a common toolset and language. I was passionately opposed to them for the longest time because I feared we would lose the art and beauty of designing and XHTML/CSS coding. My opinion changed once I discovered the 960 Grid System.
centre{source} Makes a BANG with the Monthly Interactive Mixer
In the fall of 2008, the Strategy team at centre{source} set out to create a plan for expanding the firm’s reach and involvement in the local Nashville Interactive Community. Over the course of a few months, a strategy was formed that involved looking inwardly for personal development opportunities and looking outwardly for ways to become more active and connected with community members. The cornerstone and most valuable component of this strategy has quickly become our practice of hosting a monthly mixer at the c{s} North Fourth office on the last Thursday of each month.
As the “hostess” and organizer of these events, I was initially unsure of what to expect as far as turnout and reception. As we geared up for the first mixer, held in January of 2009, I must have refreshed our Pingg invite list at least 50 times a day. As we got closer to D-Day and RSVPs began rolling in, I quickly realized that what we initially expected to be an event with attendance of around 30-40 was going to become much more!
Dream Big, Take Action: Ellie’s Run for Africa
The summer is here, which means that once again it is time for us to join forces to help out Ellie’s Run for Africa (ERFA), a 5k run and family fun day that raises awareness of and funding for Africans who struggle to meet basic needs such as health care, food, water, shelter, clothing and education. Since the first event in 2004, ERFA has raised over $155,000 and helped to put over 420 kids in school.
Using Axure RP Pro to Create Interactive Prototypes
At CentreSource, we include planning and/or strategy in every interactive and web project we begin. The goal of this on-the-forefront project work is to assess the estimated scope, timeline, and budget as discussed during the sales meetings and re-evaluate it through a more refined lens. Very often, this refining perspective is comprised of an interactive HTML prototype developed using Axure RP Pro.
While many projects can be successfully planned using by-hand sketches (and our simplest ‘portfolio’ sites are, in fact, prototyped this way), as the complexity of the desired user experience increases, so too increases the value of an online, “clickable” prototype rendition. Axure RP’s integrated development environment (IDE) makes it quick and easy to create such prototypes.
