Inforest Launches Speedwell Foundation AFS Study Abroad Scholarships Website

Inforest is proud to announce the launch of the Speedwell Foundation AFS Scholarship website (http://www.speedwellafs.org).  The site describes a scholarship program offered to high school students in central Pennsylvania and coastal South Carolina to study abroad for one year in a country where English is not the primary language.  The Speedwell Foundation was founded by …

“Mobile Friendly” sites being tagged in Google search results

Last month saw the roll-out of Google’s “Mobile Friendly” tag for searches initiated on smartphones and other mobile devices.  Now, when someone searches for something, like “princeton web design” on their smartphone, results will show a “Mobile Friendly” label in front of the site description.  It is part of an emphasis that Google is placing …

Fixing HTML5 Video Portrait Orientation with Adobe Media Encoder

Ran across an issue today with HTML5 video tags and Internet Explorer and Firefox on Windows.  According to Microsoft, Internet Explorer (and I think any other browser running on Windows) will automatically orient the image based on the metadata of the device used to record it.  Supposedly, this would mean that if you record a …

Social Networking Polices and Strategies

Social Networking can be broadly described as communications between and among individuals utilizing Web sites and services that open these conversations to a larger audience. Often these communications are more timely, informal, brief and less refined than traditional business and marketing communications. They also lend to more personal and conversational approaches to the topics that …

Art + Commerce = Wilkinson Media: Cool Ideas to Leverage Art for Advocacy

Andrew Wilkinson of Wilkinson Media is a Princeton area photographer, videographer and all around creative genius who’s creative philosophy is to marry the creative energies of art and entrepreneurship. We’ve been fortunate to collaborate with Andrew on a number of projects, with Andrew providing photography for many of our client’s Web sites (as well as …

Microsoft replaces blogging service with WordPress?!?

Microsoft recently switched users from their own blogging site to WordPress.com, a blogging service powered by the popular WordPress blogging/Content Management System (CMS) software. What is notable about this development to me is that Worpress is an “open source” project written in the non-Microsoft, PHP scripting language. There are several other takeaways from this development: The move …

Drupal and Agile Development

I came across a presentation by Dustin Currie from Level Ten Interactive in Dallas, Texas on the topic of Drupal Agency Processes. I’ve embeded the video and included my notes on his presentation. Mr. Currie states that human interactions are the key challenges to Web development. These include stating expectations, determining what needs to be done, etc. It is this …