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How to Build an Infographic
Infographics have gained tremendous popularity in recent years, as they're an extremely effective and aesthetically-pleasing method for conveying information such as statistics, facts and figures. Infographics feature a graphical depiction of the information to be...
The 5 Keys to Understanding a Client’s Needs
Whether you're designing a website or crafting a printed marketing piece, it's absolutely essential that the client and the designer share a common understanding, as miscommunications can result in disaster. For instance, a client may indicate that they would like a...
How to Use Your Resources to Grow Your Brand to Its Full Potential
At Matcha Design, we specialize in providing a full range of different services to clients. But on occasion, we encounter a client who doesn't use their resources in a manner that allows them to grow their business in a way that leverages all available resources. We...
Speed Up Your Mac – Tips from a former Mac Genius
A few days ago, Matcha Design invited Dina Hunt, a former Apple Genius, to be our guest blogger and offer some practical tips to our fans and followers who use Mac. Enjoy. For the last year I've been enjoying my time away from retail. I've adopted a new role as a...
Matcha Design Honored with 6 Winning Entries in the 2014 Communicator Awards
The winners of the 2014 Communicator Awards have been announced by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts, and Matcha Design is proud to have been honored with awards for six projects. With over 6,000 entries received from across the US and around the world, the...
A Guide to Grassroots Marketing
What is grassroots marketing? It's a common question amongst those who are new to marketing and seeking to launch their first campaign. Grassroots marketing is a unique variety of marketing that utilizes an engaging, interactive, community-based approach. These...
Matcha Design Wins Silver Award For Website Redesign At Summit International Awards
Matcha Design, a full-service conceptual website design and development company that works to incorporate responsive, creative elements in today’s digital sphere, this week announced they have been awarded another prestigious Summit Creative Award for a website...
Matcha Design wins 2014 DesignFirms Web Award for MidFirst Bank Money Moments Online Financial Literacy Course
Tulsa, OK - June 2, 2014 - Matcha Design recently won the DesignFirms web award for the MidFirst Bank Money Moments Online Financial Literacy Course. The DesignFirms™ awards showcase the best work from designers and developers around the world; elevating the creative...
Web Design Experts Develop Web Sites with a Powerful Web Presence
Clients certainly gain a perception of your company based on the looks and ease-of-use of your website. A website gives a company legitimacy and provides customers with a useful source of information. Along with effective search engine optimization, your website will...
Matcha Design Takes Top International Emerging Media Award for MidFirst Bank Online Course
Matcha Design was an Innovator Award winner in the 2013 Summit Emerging Media Award (Summit EMA) competition for their work with MidFirst Bank on MoneyMoments Online Course. “We are really excited to receive the Innovator Award from this year’s Summit Emerging Media...
Matcha Design Wins The Best in Identity and Web Design for Solomon Consulting Group at the DesignFirms Awards
Matcha Design recently brought home two big wins at the DesignFirms awards in identity and web design for Kansas client, Solomon Consulting Group. The DesignFirms™ awards showcase the best work from designers and developers around the world; elevating the creative...
Matcha Design Wins Gold at The 2013 International Davey Awards
The International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA) awarded Matcha Design with four awards at The 2013 Davey Awards this year. With nearly 4,000 entries from across the US and around the world, Matcha Design joins the finest creative work from the best small firms,...
5 Simply Cool jQuery Functions Unveiled
jQuery is used by innumerable developers worldwide, and for good reason - it's an excellent way of increasing the productivity of your JavaScript development. As such, I've decided to outline a few of its most useful functions. Each heading also links to the...
5 Useful (and Free) Tools for Web Developers
In addition to understanding the languages and best practices, knowing what external tools are available is important for a developer. These are a few tools of which every web developer should be aware. They won't all apply to every project, but they should certainly...
5 Reasons to Use HTML5 Semantic Tags
The header, section, footer, and nav tags, along with several others, serve purely semantic purposes. Traditionally, the div tag most often served to divide up the page into its constituent parts. Like the div tag, these content-describing tags should visually be...
5 Simple On-Page SEO Techniques
Search Engine Optimization can largely be broken down into two areas of effort – on-page and off-page. On-page SEO refers to the content of the individual HTML files that make up your site, and off-page SEO refers to external efforts, such as links to your pages from...
5 Tips For Converting to HTML5
There are lots of new features in HTML5, but some elements from HTML4 have been changed or removed. So here are a few tips for changes you might need to make if you're upgrading. 1. The CENTER tag The center tag was deprecated in HTML4/XHTML, and not allowed in XHTML...
5 Ways to Speed Up Your Website
If I go to the homepage of a website on a computer with a fast connection, and after 5 seconds there are still large pieces of the page missing, something's wrong. So in the interest of making the internet a better place for all, especially those without...
The Competition is Heating Up Between Google and Microsoft
We did a review on Windows Live Skydrive in October. One of the main features Microsoft offers is the ability to create, edit and store Office docs for free online via the browser. It also allows you to view the documents on your web-enabled mobile phone. As some of...
5 Cool Features of CSS3
Like HTML5, CSS3 is currently in draft form, and has varied support across the major browsers. All of the major browsers are at least developing support for the existing CSS3 properties, however. CSS3 goes hand-in-hand with HTML5 to make pages simpler by reducing...
5 New Features in HTML5
HTML5 is still a work in progress, and some parts are still being refined or are subject to change, but partial experimental support is already existent in most major browsers. At this point I wouldn't recommend building a whole website in HTML5 without any kind of...
Windows Live SkyDrive Review
Microsoft recently released SkyDrive, a web-based storage and sharing utility. In addition to being a handy way to access up to 25GB of your files from pretty much anywhere, as well as optionally share those files with others, SkyDrive features Office Web Apps -...
A brief overview of the Android platform for developers
Recently I was studying some finer points of application development on the Android platform, and I was inspired to share some basic information with those who may be unfamiliar with the system. The first thing you need to know about Android applications is that they...
Markup Validation
I've read plenty of articles about the all-importance of validation, and some about why validation isn't important. The articles that dismiss striving for the green light usually cite examples of people breaking down their code and inadvertently removing functionality...
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