Blog Archives

  1. Announcing the Knight Citizen News Network

    Knight Citizen News Network: Helping citizens and journalists amplify community news

    March 26 was the official launch of the Knight Citizen News Network, www.kcnn.org. We worked with Jan Schaffer and the other fine folks at J-Lab (University of Maryland) to design and build this truly enormous site where you can find all kinds of help and information on citizen…

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  2. Four in One Day

    It’s been a busy, busy day in Hop Studios land.  Never before (and dare I say, never again?) have we launched four sites in one day!  Expect a full write up of all of them, but here’s the bullet points:

    1. First was eMarketing101, a great little EE site run by Alex Brabant. I think Matt did a…

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  3. Hop Studios Spawns ThinkSalmon

    Screenshot of Think SalmonToday is a good day.  Today, we attended the launch event for Think Salmon.  Sure, we’ve launched websites before, but this is the first launch we’ve done that’s been attended by a government minister (BC Minister of the Environment, Barry Penner), with speeches and banners and buttons and…

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  4. A Design Dissection of EllisLab.com (formerly pMachine)

    Here at Hop Studios we are big fans of a content management system called ExpressionEngine. We’ve used it for at least the past two years, and some of our biggest and more exciting projects are run using heftily tweaked and configured installations of this amazing tool. (Both Truthdig and

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  5. Spam Scams Stopped by Sam Members!

    We were privileged to redesign http://www.samharris.org in July of 2006. Along with the website of this influential thinker and writer, we inherited oversight of a thriving forum community. Filled with active members, the Sam Harris Forums explore issues of faith and society. However, an…

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