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How To Choose A Website Design Company

You have less than eight seconds to create a positive impression on a visitor to your website when they first land on your website. Be very selective when it comes time to choose the website design firm for your website project. Here are some suggestions/tips to consider when selecting a website design firm: 1. Do […]
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2 months ago

A Few CSS Snippits That I Can’t Live Without

CSS snippets are a great way to save time while developing CSS on your site. If you frequently find yourself using the same batch of CSS, it’s probably a good idea to save them to some sort of snippet library. If you don’t already have a library of CSS snippets, here are a few to get your […]
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3 months ago

Designing Creatively in a Fast Paced Work Environment

Maintaining creativity in a fast-paced work environment can sometimes be akin to a doctor performing an operation, on a plane, in severe turbulence. For most, creativity doesn’t subscribe to the “9 to 5” and certainly not in situations where time is of the essence. Aside from brainstorming practices, here are a few things I’ve practiced […]
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4 months ago
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Drupal Dashboards

Dashboards! Dashboards are user control panels installed on a site to help the user easily edit, and maintain their site with little to no knowledge of web programming. We are able to create these dashboards for our clients using the content management system known as “Drupal”. With the combination of our programming expertise, and Drupal […]
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5 months ago
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Houston Business Journals Largest Web Designers Houston

Congratulations to eMUNICATIONS’ Clients Thank you clients of eMUNICATIONS! Because of your belief in our ability to provide compelling, well-designed websites eMUNICATIONS has ranked 19th on the Houston Business Journal’s Book of Lists for the Largest Houston-based Web Design and Development Companies as published in the July 1, 2011, Houston Business Journal. As our clients […]
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6 months ago
Drupal

Drupal PCI Compliance Issues With User Login Form

Here’s another quick one, We recently had a client report that they received a PCI violation because Drupal login forms do not feature the “autocomplete=off” attribute. This could be fixed with a custom template, or hacking core (!!!) but I whipped up this quick module to fix it instead, so that I wouldn’t have to […]
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6 months ago

Our Artwork Featured on MTV’s Real World: San Diego

If you’ve watched the latest season of MTV’s Real World, you’ve seen a logo in the fish tank created by yours truly. I’ve been designing for Reliant Aquarium since they first established themselves as a business about 5 years ago and have had the pleasure of watching them grow into the business they are today. […]
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7 months ago

We’re Ranking High on Footer Fetish

eMUNICATIONS’ own Ryan Martin has moved into second place on Footer Fetish! Because Ryan has something of a footer fetish anyway, this honor only seems appropriate. Ryan’s entry in the graphic design contest is from the Foster Creek Veterinary Hospital website. Go check out the whole website design and then click over to Footer Fetish […]
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7 months ago
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The Horrible Hat-trick: 3 Terrible Fonts That Should Always Be Avoided

They say art is in the eye of the beholder; as much as I want to agree, there’s still no excuse for ‘terrible’ typography. Among the worst offenders are the following fonts: Comic Sans is essentially the stereotype for bad typography and few fonts have ever caused more rage amongst designers. This sort of font […]
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8 months ago

Development of a CCK Webform Module

Here at eMUNICATIONS we love to play paintball. The game has a lot to offer: teamwork, adrenaline, exercise, and good old-fashioned sunlight (something usually alien to the eMUNICATIONS team). Naturally, we also like good quality websites (something usually alien to the paintball community). Most paintball websites I’ve come across are in a state of disrepair […]
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8 months ago