Blog: October 2005

Hop Studios is Moving!

October 18, 2005

Yes, once again, Hop Studios has found a new office, and we’ll be moving on November 1.

Seems like only a year ago that we made a similar announcement. This time, however, we’re only going about 0.3% the distance—about 4.4 miles, or 6.8 kilometers as they say up here in Canada.

Our new world headquarters will be in Kitsilano, just outside of Vancouver’s downtown core.  The address is:

3356 West 13th Ave.
Vancouver, B.C.
Canada     V6R 2R9

Everything else will remain the same, phone number, email, fax, Web, skype, AIM—in fact, I bet you might not even have noticed we moved until you went to send us a check.  At which point, you might not be so sad that it didn’t arrive. But we’re glad we told you, and we’re excited about the new place.  Now, I have to go buy some more boxes!

Posted by Travis Smith at 11:06 AM | Comments (0)

Living in Excellence

October 18, 2005

Living in ExcellenceSusannah has been doing training seminars for coaches interested in blogging. (By coaches, I mean career coaches, relationship coaches, etc.—we haven’t worked for a sports site yet.) It was through these that we met D’Arcy Vanderpool.

D’Arcy hired us because, in addition to wanting a blog, she also wanted to reorganize her Website into several areas of specialty.  We came up with a design that compartmentalized her expertise, while still displaying to potential clients her range and versatility.  She wanted something bold and colorful enough to make a personal connection, without scaring away business and professional clients.

The other thing D’Arcy wanted, was to be able to edit any of the pages, not just the blog pages, without having to know HTML or learn a new program.

We were able to come up with a solution that makes the text of her site changeable, while still keeping the basic structure of the pages secure.  One other little touch: We made sure that her site would make her email address prominent to visitors, but not accessible to spammers, by encoding it with JavaScript.

Here’s the final result: http://www.livinginexcellence.com/.  She’s already had some extremely positive results from it.

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