Let the games begin! Today kicks off our Gravitate’s Memefest 2013 . The Gravitate’s Memefest 2013 is a week long meme competition to find the best digital marketing memes posted on Facebook or Twitter. This competition will cover 3 unique categories; Impactful, Helpful, and Funny. The top 3 memes in each category will be awarded… Read More »
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Design Your Development
Code should be pretty too Everyone who has sat down for web development has done some sort of brainstorming beforehand, a.k.a. strategy. Whether it’s writing out your goals for the project, (which I highly recommend) or just getting some basic ideas and functionality bullet-points, you are strategizing. Put simply, you are creating a design of… Read More »
Employee Happiness as a Business Tool [Infographic]
It’s difficult to design an enthralling infographic. It quickly becomes apparent that communicating an idea in a graphical manner that is both visually compelling and capable of relaying a complex message is, well…really hard. Gravitate’s own Melanie Graham is not intimidated. Mel routinely absorbs written information and produces brilliant visual representations of the data and… Read More »
Best SEO Blogs to Follow to Stay Up-to-Date
The world of digital marketing is constantly changing, and in today’s fast paced work environment, it can be difficult to stay up-to-date on the latest SEO and digital marketing tactics. And let’s not forget the countless self-declared “experts” who claim to drink from the holy grail of internet marketing but instead flood our minds with… Read More »
No More Annoying Facebook Ads! Well, sort of…
Facebook users rejoice! The company announced today that it will be scrapping Sponsored Search Results, with the removal taking full effect later in July. Don’t get too excited though, this change is only temporary. Facebook plans to continue its use of “search advertising,” including the annoying right-hand column ads currently found on result pages as… Read More »
Facebook Launches Hashtags and #ItWillChangeYourLife
#OhNoTheyDidnt Facebook announced today that it’s finally implementing a hashtag feature that will allow users to append content to the end of status updates or posts. Hashtags, words or phrases prefixed with the symbol #, have been made popular on such sites as Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr to describe the overall theme or message of… Read More »
So we decided to race go-karts
The mantra “Work hard, play hard.” is a bit of a cliché. We’ve all heard it. It’s the slogan for Reebok’s early 90’s ad campaigns, a title of a recent Wiz Khalifa track (that is pretty terrible), and it’s drunkenly declared at corporate golf outings throughout the world. While the eye-roll inducing slogan is somewhat… Read More »
How a Designer Optimizes for Conversion
Jason Lance is a seasoned UI designer and a user-experience Sherpa. For more than ten years, he’s been honing and perfecting his craft by consistently designing compelling websites that drive traffic and convert visitors into clients. One of the first steps to conversion is putting some thought and strategy behind each page’s call to action… Read More »
Gravitate Encryption for WordPress and Gravity Forms
Nowadays Encryption has been getting more and more attention. With so many server attacks being done every minute, we need a solution to prevent our clients data from being used maliciously. Gravity Forms Encryption Gravity Forms is an awesome plugin for WordPress. However, it doesn’t come with an option to encrypt the data when it… Read More »
Designer + Developer, not Designer vs. Developer
Here’s a post from one of our code geeks, Brian who is affectionately known as a “unicorn” around here because he’s skilled in both development and design. While I was doing some research on designers and developers working together, I found that most of the information out there is about how designers and developers don’t work well together. Most… Read More »