Grocor, LTD came to us to revamp their e-commerce web site, which was powered by Yahoo! Merchant Solutions. They wanted to add many new products and make the site more attractive and easier to maintain.

Unfortunately, Yahoo!’s store system leaves a lot to be desired, requiring that you create many static pages for products, which totally goes against our mantra of making web sites that are easy to maintain and as automated as possible.

When I first started digging into the Yahoo! catalog system, I could hardly believe it. The interface and functionality seems to have been frozen in time, circa 1999. You have to navigate an unnecessary sea of links to get where you want to go and there are lots of places where you have to enter data in multiple places when one would have sufficed.

And have I mentioned everything is sloooooooow? Read the rest of this entry »

According to the web site, “Microsoft® Expression® Web Designer” gives you all the tools you’ll need to produce high-quality, standards-based Web sites the way you want them.”

Standards-based, huh? Someone should tell them the web browser they make isn’t standards-compliant

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FireBox Studios is handling the creative and web development for the River City Film Festival, a fund-raising event to benefit the renovation of the Colony Theatre in Marietta, Ohio.

So far, we have created the official film festival logo and the Call for Entries flyer.

We are also in the midst of working on the festival’s website at www.rivercityfilmfestival.com, to be launched by June 1st.

The new site will have all the information for submitting a film as well as discussion forums and more. Feel free to visit the site today to download the flyer and sign up for email updates.

Kudos to The Blennerhassett Hotel for the recent successful launch of their new website, designed by FireBox Studios.

FireBox was contracted to create a new look for the hotel, and provide easy-to-use templates to their in-house web team for use in building a new site.

The hotel’s web team took our designs and standards-compliant prototypes and created a full website that provides a wealth of great information for their guests (of particular interest to us is their Starbucks® bar

The Blennerhassett is an elegant hotel in Parkersburg, West Virginia, built in 1889. The hotel caters to both the leisure and business traveler and is a member of Historic Hotels of America.