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Never Pick A Stone Up Twice

Tuesday, February 2, 2010 – Flipping through the book Lost Crafts, I came upon this gem. Advice when building a dry stone wall… A skilled waller will never pick a stone up twice; in other words, they won't waste time picking up lots of different stones, then discarding them, but will choose a stone and use it.

10 years and a Les Paul

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 – Today is Nick's 10-year anniversary at iMarc. His partners threw him a little wine and cheese party, then surprised him with a gift — One of Gibson's Les Paul '57 reproductions, goldtop. Check out Nick's photo and commentary. And here's Nick testing out his new baby for us all:

The Scientific Method

Tuesday, January 5, 2010 – While we were building out the new iMarc website, a colleague and I had a vehement disagreement over link behavior. There is a link to the Newburyport Chamber of Commerce on the about page, and my esteemed colleague Karin wanted it to open in a new window — because when she opens a link leading off any site, she wants a new window to preseve her old one. I argued that this would be user-unfriendly because it changed the state of the…—

New Year, New Website

Monday, January 4, 2010 – For the past 975 days our website looked the same.  Some of the content changed. Some of the graphics changed. But basically the design template that launched in May, 2007 was still employed in December, 2009. That design held up well for two and half years. However, since we're a web design company, we should eventually redesign our own website, right? Not really. A full-blown, big-splash redesign is rarely the ideal solution.…

iMarc is Hiring: New Business Development Specialist

Monday, January 4, 2010 – iMarc seeks a talented business development specialist, with a demonstrated track record of success in helping customers define web projects. The ideal candidate has at least 3 years of web or technology-related experience including at least one year in business development or project management. This person needs to be a creative thinker who can assist customers in identifying business opportunities and devising web based solutions.…—

iMarc: The Video Game

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 – Last night, we attended the MITX Interactive Awards ceremony. Two of our clients were in the running as finalists — North Shore Association of REALTORS® and Ounce Labs. We lost out to some bigger competition (it happens — little David doesn't always win!) but were happy to be in such good company. But more to the point ... the ceremony featured iMarc: The Video Game 2009 MITX Movie - Video Game from iMarc LLC on

Welcome Matt

Friday, November 13, 2009 – It seems like we've been making hiring announcements quite frequently, yet here we are again. This time we welcome PHP developer, Matt Sahagian to the team. Matt is a true jack-of-all trades with a core focus on programming, open source, and PHP. Matt's a unique breed whose resume combines phrases like C-based GUI Toolkit, CSS 2, Computer Repair, Web Design, Object Oriented PHP, AJAX, and Postfix. Over the next couple months…

Welcome Angelo

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 – On Monday, iMarc added our first front-end developer to the growing team. Welcome Angelo Simeoni. Wait... did you say "first" front-end developer? Yes. Until now, all front-end HTML, CSS, and Javascript has been shared by the developers and designers. We've benefited from programmers who understand usability, typography and design; as well as designers who are comfortable cutting up comps and writing Javascript. However, we also…

The Awkward 'Tweens (We're 12!)

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 – iMarc is 12 years old Yesterday we had a little birthday party as we turned 12 years old. As we enter the awkward 'tween years, we look back with fondness at some of our own strange old websites. But we also look forward. Here's a sneak peak at our new website about to be launched... Happy 12th Birthday To Us

Prepare for Battle

Friday, October 23, 2009 – This weekend, once again, Oregon State and USC are GOING TO WAR! And iMarc represents. Allow me to introduce iMarc's Warriors. For USC: KIM "Bring It On" JACKSON For OSU: KARIN "No Prisoners" KLAPAK This year, it's not just a friendly competition — it's a grudge match. Because last year, Kim brought it on. And her proud warrior tradition ... did not prevail. Once again, they're talking trash and proudly sporting team regalia and…

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  • 10 years and a Les Paul

    Jaime commented: Is that Dave Despres in the flesh?

  • The Scientific Method

    TJ Kelly commented: "After 2 seconds on the Chamber page, she realized that she wasn't interested and wanted to get back to iMarc." Therein lies my favorite argument for opening links in the same window.

  • The Scientific Method

    Angelo Simeoni commented: Our issue tracker has a user option to open issue links in a new window. I can't remember if that's enabled by default, but that's one good use case. Imagine if it were default browser behavior to open all links in a new window. I'm going to mention that the next time someone suggests that interaction. Ironically…

  • The Scientific Method

    Marc Amos commented: When somebody who's signing my checks asks me to make their links automatically open in a new window, the scenario you describe above is pretty much the same scenario I describe to them as 'my professional opinion.' I ask them to consider what happens when the user aims for the Back button and it doesn't…

  • The Scientific Method

    Errol Sayre commented: Your key point says it all: "anyone who wanted that behavior was sophisticated enough to create the behavior on demand" My favorite are sites that go to such great lengths to produce open in a new-window-links that they make it impossible for you to right-click and choose "open in new tab". (Generally due to a…

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