Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of five videos from various members of our team about our recent redesign of centresource.com. In this video, our creative manager, Weylon, talks about the new site and all it has to offer. He addresses our identity and what it says about our company, as well…
Last year, we had the opportunity to work with WOW, a collaboration of the top Christian and Gospel music from EMI Christian Music Group, Provident Label Group, and Word Entertainment, by redesigning their website. This year, they asked us to come back and help them create an app for Spotify, an online music service. The…
The Centresource creative department has been busy lately! We’ve been working on tons of fun client projects as well as some secret Centresource work that we can’t wait to reveal coming in the next couple of months. This past spring we designed and developed a fun project called ‘iART Health’. Sponsored by Health Teacher, iART…
Recently, Unmatched Style sponsored some “Friendly Markup Fisticuffs” where they issued design files to whoever wanted to compete, and the competitors would have two weeks to create a website using only their brains and their computers. The rules were pretty straightforward: one page only necessary, all external libraries (jQuery, et al.) had to be included,…
Just a real quick tip for other Rails developers out there who enjoy the benefits of MacRabbit’s excellent software CSSEdit. Due to the fact that Rails applies a timestamp to every asset (stylesheet, javascript, and/or image) included in a view via the appropriate helper in order to allow the user to use the Expires header…
In a melodramatic attempt to close up my time here at Centresource, I figured I would reflect on some lessons learned… As a manager, you set the weather. Our CEO, Nick told me early on “you set the weather for your department”. At the time I had never heard the expression before. Here’s how I…
I recently stumbled upon a collection of retro black and white logos that included an RCA logo that somehow instantly took me back to my childhood happy place full of movies like ‘The Goonies’, ‘Stand By Me’ and ‘Sixteen Candles’. If you’ve ever taken a marketing class, one of the core fundamentals that our professors…
Our good friends at .Net Magazine recently published a great article detailing 15 ways to keep costs down while making great websites. One of our developers, Travis Roberts, was included in the piece with his insight on a competitive tool for project management: “If paying is a deal-breaker, then Travis Roberts, developer for centresource, recommends Redmine, which…
You might have noticed from my previous posts that I really love fonts. When I crossed over from a strictly print designer to a web designer, a part of me was crushed when I learned I had a limited amount of fonts I could use. Then…Google Web Fonts came to my rescue! I can now…
Today I would like to bring a little bit of art into your world by looking at our country through graphic design. Fifty designers from fifty different states have constructed a project called ‘Fifty and Fifty‘. The concept of this project is that each designer will illustrate their historic state motto by adding their own…
