Recent posts about Raised Eyebrow
What we’re thinking about here at Raised Eyebrow these days. You can subscribe to our blog by RSS, or sign up for email updates.
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We Built the Internet Hall of Fame
April, 23 2012 CommentsWhile it's not quite the same as the honour of being inducted, we were pretty thrilled earlier this year when The Internet Society asked our team to build the online home of the Internet Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame site was built to honour some of our greatest heros, the people whose work has literally made our jobs possible like Vint Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee. Also in this year's round of inductees, Mitchell Baker, Open Source advocate and founding chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation, and a woman we have much respect and admiration for here at Raised Eyebrow.
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Our Help Manual
November, 8 2011 CommentsThe lack of user documentation for open-source projects, like Wordpress and Drupal the two Content Management Systems we develop in most frequently at Raised Eyebrow, is a known issue. While a thriving user base and a good google search can often turn up answers to questions not addressed in documentation for a development team, that's not really a viable solution for end-users, in our case clients who are simply trying to maintain and manage their websites. And, since we build a lot of custom Drupal Modules or Wordpress Plugins to meet our client's specific communications needs, we then become the folks responsible for documentation.
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2 Big Wins for our Clients at CUPE's Communications Awards
November, 3 2011 CommentsWoo-hoo! We've just learned that two websites we launched this year have won at the 2011 CUPE Communications Awards!
CUPE's awards celebrate top-notch communications in the labour sector, so we are thrilled to see two of our union clients - the Hospital Employees' Union and CUPE Local 79 - be recognized for their websites.
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Redesign in Process: Overview of a Content Audit
October, 12 2011 CommentsWe're currently in the process of redesigning and redeveloping our website and I'm documenting bits and pieces of that process here. The first post about the redesign process is here.
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The Cobbler's Children: A redesign in process
October, 6 2011 CommentsYou know how the saying goes: the cobbler's children have no shoes. Ditto for the web studio and their website. We've historically struggled mightily with getting our own web house in order every 3 years or so and frequently get beyond a point where we're in desperate need of a retooling. The story is always the same: putting client work/client needs first. That said, we work really well with deadlines and our current one is Lauren's impending maternity leave. A date arriving all too soon, and not one with room for extensions.
So. We're putting our collectives noses to the grindstone and getting our own house in order over here, and it's been a really rewarding and illuminating process, I think for the team, but certainly for me.
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Webinar Recordings (and Slide Decks) Now Available
October, 5 2011 CommentsFor those who missed our September webinars, we now have recordings and slide decks available for your viewing pleasure!
We've attached them to the blog post for each webinar, so just choose the topic you're interested in:
- Getting Your Message Out During an Election
- Redesigning Your Website? What You Need to Know
- Social Media for Nonprofit Boards
You can also embed the slide decks in your own website or blog if you're so inclined… feel free to share.
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Free Talk Tonight at Net Tuesday Vancouver
October, 4 2011 Comments
This is a bit last-minute, but I just realized that I'd neglected to post here that I will be presenting our recent talk, "Redesigning Your Website? What You Need to Know," at tonight's Net Tuesday Vancouver meetup. Net Tuesday is a fantastic (and free) monthly event for Vancouver-area nonprofits and the techies who love them, and I'm delighted to be their guest this evening.The event takes place at W2 Media Cafe at 111 West Hastings, and begins at 6:00 pm. Full details here.
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Why We Still Build Websites
September, 29 2011 Comments
A month ago or so, a colleague and friend of ours, Jason Mogus, wrote an eloquent and widely circulated blog post titled "Why We Stopped Building Websites." It's a great read. And, I'll admit, when I first read through it, I found myself wondering if perhaps we at Raised Eyebrow should, in fact, stop building websites. After all, Lauren and I, the partners in the business, don't really have that much to do with the day-to-day building of websites any more. We have brilliant staff who manage the ins and outs of website design, development and deployment. And I agree with Jason's thesis that it's not just about websites anymore. -
Curious for a Living at the Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit
September, 26 2011 Comments
I'll be in Portland next month for the Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit, and I'm looking forward to geeking out on Drupal, open-source and web development for a couple of days in beautiful Oregon. -
Better Questions, Better Websites: Free event for Vancouver web designers
September, 19 2011 CommentsI'm excited to have been invited to speak to the Vancouver Webdesign Meetup group this week on a topic that's close to my heart: Asking better questions. In this talk, I go beyond widgets and code, and deeper than site architecture and design - to the root of what drives human interaction, and should drive technology decisions as well: function, meaning, delight and evolution.
The event takes place Wednesday, September 21 at 7:00 pm. More details here.
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