Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
Open. Graph. Protocol. (OGP for short). For most folks, those three words are gibberish. In spite of that, they do carry some importance. In the last several years, the web has been transforming. While this isn't a big surprise to most people there has been a surge in users accessing the web through mobile devises and more and more users are gravitating towards social platforms.
According to ogp.me, the OGP was developed to help enable web pages to become "rich objects" in the social graph. In laymen's terms this means that when a website or url is shared on a social platform such a Facebook it allows specific information like page title, description, images, etc to be associated to be served up as well.
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
This past week we rolled out some big things for us here at S.P.I. It's been quite a while since we redesigned our site (the mechanics car kind of thing ya know) but we finally pushed a few days aside, did away with that /2010/ url structure thing and pushed out a new site.
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
When we were first approached by the folks at Bright Futures about working with them on the Rebuild Joplin website, we knew it was going to be a very unique project, and an even more unique opportunity for us. Very rarely does an idea come along that will so directly reach to the heart of people's immediate needs. The fact that the idea that was proposed hinged on the web made it that much more appealing to us. We knew that if the project had clear objectives that were set forth and respected from the get go, the site would become a very effective tool in the hands of the people of Joplin who were effected by the Tornado that hit town on Sunday, May 22nd.
