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  • Serving a localized, cached navigation menu with cookies and javascript
    10/04/11
    OK, so the title of this blog post is some fancy jargon to succinctly explain an issue I ran into when dealing with a very specific client request.
  • Message Agency launches Breakthrough Philadelphia!
    6/24/11
    We are pleased to announce the launch of Breakthrough Philadelphia's new website! Breakthrough of Greater Philadelphia is an academic enrichment program that helps guide low-income students from middle school to college. Message Agency created a site for them which is engaging and informative.
  • The Mann Gets a Facelift
    6/16/11
    Message Agency recently had the opportunity to perform a makeover on the home page for the Mann Music Center, a site we developed in cooperation with Tabula Creative. While we maintained the functionality we built last year, the Mann wanted to incorporate their new logo and color scheme.
  • Message Agency launches Global Philadelphia
    5/23/11
    Message Agency is happy to announce the launch of GlobalPhiladelphia.org, the website of the Global Philadelphia Association. GPA brings together businesses, organizations, and individuals who are part of the international communities here in Philly. We had the opportunity to work closely with the budding organization's all-volunteer staff on content creation as well as development. Congratulations, GPA!
  • Message Agency launches the Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training website
    4/22/11
    Message Agency is pleased to announce the launch of PigIronSchool.org. The Pig Iron Theatre Company's School for Advanced Performance Training wanted to keep things simple, but still have a dynamic site they could update themselves. We designed and built them a site which is both visually appealing and easy to manage.
  • Message Agency at the Salesforce CMS Integration Showdown: Drupal, Plone, and Joomla at NTC
    3/06/11
    Join us at the NTC conference on 3/18 to see how Drupal measures up! Message Agency will join Christopher Johnson of ifPeople and Ryan Ozimek of PICnet at NTEN's Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in DC to compare and contrast the Salesforce integrations our firms have built for three open source content management systems: Drupal, Plone, and Joomla.
  • Message Agency launches the Schuylkill Banks website
    2/25/11
    Message Agency is pleased to announce the launch of SchuylkillBanks.org! The Schuylkill River Development Corporation, in a partnership with the Philadelphia Department of Parks and Recreation, wanted a website to showcase their work improving the Schuylkill River as it runs through the heart of the city.
  • Salesforce gits social
    1/27/11
    I was happy to see the announcement Salesforce created an official git repository for their toolkit. And, as of December 23, the Enterprise Client upsert issue has been addressed.
  • Featuritis OR How to postpone launch indefinitely
    1/11/11
    Nothing can postpone a site launch more effectively, delay developers more thoroughly, and destroy designers' original intentions more completely than featuritis.
  • How do you want social networks to help your organization?
    11/10/10
    Social networking has created such a fundamental change in the way people use the internet that it's often referred to as Web 2.0. But what does this mean to your organization? How do people relate to each other online, and how can your message best reach them? This slideshow, by Paul Adams of Google's User Experience team, is a remarkably clear overview.