Storytelling never gets old
Humans love a good story. In all the varied walks and ways we have come through our evolution, storytelling has existed, thrived and continues to excite, move and motivate us.So why is so much of the...
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North Studio Partners with Hipwood Digital
North Studio has joined forces with Hipwood Digital, an award-winning app development team in Victoria, BC.
View ArticleGardening your SEO--More Than a Day's Work
Imagine your website as a new backyard. The grass is patchy and unequal, there are weeds in the corners, and trees grow unchecked. To clean up that mess and make your yard presentable and welcoming,...
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March Madness!
Since the boss is on vacation for the month, we decided that it's March Madness at North Studio!To celebrate this occasion, we decided to make a special offer for your new or revamped website. Here's...
View ArticleDrupal Security Updates
You've contracted your favourite web development company to build you a beautiful website using Drupal, complete with all the bells and whistles. Your website has launched and everything is functioning...
View ArticleHere's Why We Like Project Management Tools... And Why You Should, Too
At times, our clients seem reluctant to adopt our project management tool to help handle their web design or marketing projects. It's not surprising, given how many systems and programs businesses have...
View ArticleSportsnet is now Responsive!
Sportsnet has joined the growing wave of people building responsive websites (along with all our customers).
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Affordable Web Design
Things that are not affordable to most of the normal human population:
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Why use a web design agency?
When it comes to choosing how to design (or redesign) your website, you have three basic options: You do it yourself, You hire a freelance designer, or You contract a web design agency.If you were...
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Website Not Working? Here's How to Report It Properly
I'm sure we all wish that technology worked perfectly all the time. We depend on it for most of our communication and work needs, and it can be frustrating when the tools we need to do our job start...
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Responsive Design Tools: Structured Content
Responsive design is the web development challenge of our time. With so many different screens and methods to access websites, it makes no sense to develop one separate site for each device. Responsive...
View ArticleHoliday Support
Our offices are closed from 20th Dec 2013 until the 6th Jan 2014.IMPORTANT - if your site is down your first point of contact should be your hosting company. If you are unsure who your hosting company...
View ArticleAre You a WordPress Or A Drupal Person?
When you build a new website, there's a lot of stuff to think about: there's the logo and the content, and the information architecture and the buttons, the hosting and the domain name... But before...
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Rethinking The User Persona
The web design process at North Studio usually includes user personas--and that's for a good reason. User personas help us:
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Build It Badly And They Probably Won't Stay: The Importance of Web Usability
Photo by Aaron Fulkerson on FlickrIn another life, I mark undergraduate writing assignments that involve doing usability research and writing a report on that research. Through the years marking these...
View Article3 Web Design Trends To Use Right Now
If your website is in need of a little design refresh, you're not alone: web design trends and practices have changed quite a bit in the last few years, and website designed in 2012 might seem outdated...
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The Ultimate Design Fight: Mobile vs. Responsive
It's time to get a mobile design for your business website. No, we're serious: you REALLY need to get a mobile website, especially if you are a retailer, since about 20% of all web traffic is now...
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Drupal 8: Choose Your Upgrade Strategy Today
Drupal 8, the next version of our favorite content management system, is going to be released sometime at the end of this summer.We're pretty excited about this at North Studio since the new Drupal...
View ArticleAre Free Website Builders A Good Option For Your Business?
I coded my first website in the late 90s, when I was still in high school. I had a Star Wars fan site and a beauty tips site too. I used HTML guides online and a little bit of practice to get them to...
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Meet the Father of Drupal: Dries Buytaert
Father's Day is coming up this weekend, and we thought we could celebrate this today by telling you a little bit more about Driest Buytaert, the founder of the Drupal open-source content management...
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