Posted by Jordan Little on August 23, 2011
Turnage Employment has been locally owned and operated in Arkansas for more than 20 years and is proud to offer a staff with over 100 combined years of experience. Turnage has offices in Little Rock, Conway, Russellville and Helena.
Whether you are a company looking for a quality employee or an applicant searching for a career, let their counselors put their expertise to work for you. Turnage’s staffing counselors work as a team to find the best possible match for their client companies and their applicants.
Turnage Employment
Posted by Jordan Little on February 28, 2011
We’re very pleased to have ICCS on board and we look forward to building their website.
Immaculate Conception Catholic School is committed to the teaching of Catholic Christian doctrines and values. We are dedicated to providing quality academic programs integrated with religious truth and values. The administration and faculty pledge to encourage the appreciation of learning and seek to develop in each student a love for God and the Holy Catholic Church, a profound respect for persons, and a thirst for knowledge.
Posted by Jordan Little on February 27, 2011
A designer’s portfolio website is absolutely essential in attracting new clients. There’s no better place to showcase your skills, past work, and technique for potential customers to peruse prior to making a commitment. Showcasing your work needs to be a professional, clean, and simple process that is wrapped in the perfect design itself. I’ve gathered 25 great web and graphic designer portfolio websites. These represent some of the best design portfolio sites on the web. Take a glance and let me know your favorites. (And sorry for the self promotion but I’ve started this list with my very own portfolio site).
http://visualswirl.com/inspiration/designer-portfolio-website/
Posted by Jordan Little on February 1, 2011
It’s been about a year since the last version of the site, so about a week ago I decided that was long enough.
New Tech
HTML5 is all the rage these days and I couldn’t resist the urge to utilize in this redesign. It’s one of my first public builds with HTML5 (everything else using it has been a side-project) and I’m actually surprised with how painless it actually was.
To get the new elements (section, header, footer) to be visible to stupid ol’ Internet Explorer, I’m using HTML5 Shiv. I started going down the route of just using Modernizer, which detects a browser’s support of various features, and serving different styles to different browsers, but I decided against it – mainly due to code bloat issues and page loading speed.
Custom Fonts
As you can tell, these headings are not a normal web-font. They’re set in Museo Slab, an awesome font from Jos Buivenga and served by TypeKit. The whole process was very easy and I highly recommend giving it a go if you’re wanting to use custom fonts.
Bye bye, IE6
This website marks the end of my support for IE6 (at least for the Shift Creative website). IE6 users will get a “lo fi” version of the site with typography styles and formatting. It still looks great, but is much more simplified.
IE6 was released in 2001. That’s three years before I graduated High School and a year before I could even drive. It’s unfortunate that it has hung on for so long. This year, though, I finally saw my IE6 stats drop below 10% and I don’t plan on spending hours and hours fixing my site so it looks perfect for 10% of my users. It’ll still look and work great, and that’s all that matters.
Hope you enjoy it and let me know if you have any issues!
Posted by Jordan Little on June 1, 2010
After a few crazy months of working on this project between clients, I’ve finally managed to get Eat Fayetteville off the ground and launched!
What is Eat Fayetteville, you say?
It’s a way to find restaurants new and old in the Fayetteville area. You can search by keyword, tag, or restaurant name. The site has all the information you need on the restaurants you’re interested in: hours, locations, directions, pricing, features, amenities, and contact information.
Speed!
One of my main pet peeves with other food exploration sites is how slow they are. Searches seem to take forever and once I find the restaurant I want the page has to load tons of ads just for me to see the address of the place! It’s so annoying, so I went a different route…
Urbanspoon, Yelp, and other non-local food sites usually take well over 10 seconds to load. Eat Fayetteville loads in under 4 seconds (3.7…but who’s counting?) and has no ads to display. You’ll really enjoy using it, promise.
So, if you’re looking for places to eat in Fayetteville, Arkansas, check out Eat Fayetteville!
Posted by Jordan Little on May 24, 2010
After the success of last year’s site (over 16,000 visitors!) the Greek Food Fest decided to put some more time into the features of their site, so we rebuilt it from ground up to feature social networking and a lot more interactivity.
Google Maps are now built in and directions are easily accessible. We also managed to take Little Rock’s own Greek Food Fest from fourth on Google to first.
Be sure to check out the site and definitely be sure to head out on May 21st to get some baklava and gyros. All proceeds go to some wonderful charities!
http://greekfoodfest.com
Posted by Jordan Little on May 12, 2010
Google, in a pretty forward-thinking move, will start ranking sites not only by content and inbound links, but by page-load speed as well. This bodes well for clients of Shift Creative as we take speed very seriously in designing and developing websites.
Read the article…
We encourage you to start looking at your site’s speed (the tools above provide a great starting point) — not only to improve your ranking in search engines, but also to improve everyone’s experience on the Internet.
