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Empowering OpenMedia’s Digital Journey

It’s time we shone a light on one of our favorite clients: OpenMedia. OpenMedia is a community-driven civic engagement platform that educates, engages, and empowers Internet users about digital rights. As the battle for open, affordable, and surveillance-free Internet wages on, OpenMedia…

Vote for Truthdig to win The Webby People’s Voice Award

Hop Studios has been around since 2001, and for nearly all of that time, we’ve worked on Truthdig.com, an independent news website based in Los Angeles. We’ve known Zuade Kaufman, the publisher, for years as she has reached and informed a mighty audience with Truthdig’s impressive and…

Integrate Email Campaigns with ExpressionEngine using Hop Postmaster

Today, we’re thrilled to introduce Hop Postmaster, a game-changing and time-saving add-on for ExpressionEngine that redefines how you manage, send, and analyze email campaigns –  directly from a single content management system, the way a CMS should be used.

Hop Postmaster allows you to…

Today is Transgender Day of Visibility

Hop Studios has always been an equitable and supportive place to work. And yet we have also learned and improved in this respect since our beginning two decades ago. For example, this year is the first year we are writing about the annual Transgender Day of Visibility, created in 2010.

In…

Neurodiversity and Communication at Hop Studios

(Image created with assistance from ChatGPT)

We all learn and absorb information differently, and having the curiosity to ask how someone learns or understands things best is often the kindest thing we can do for a person trying to gain knowledge.

A common misconception is that Web accessibility only applies to websites. Not so! At…