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Creating HTML Email
When building a web page, one must always keep in mind the differences between the way browsers implement (or don't implement) web standards. When building emails, this is much, much worse. For starters, there are no specific standards regarding what should and...
Matcha Design Photography Coverage for 9/11 National Day of Service and Remembrance
To commemorate the upcoming 10th anniversary, Matcha Design will be a part of the 9/11 National Day of Service and Remembrance to provide photography coverage for the Asbury United Methodist Church, Tulsa Oklahoma. Asbury is planning to mobilize over 1500 volunteers...
PCI Compliance Tips
Everyone who accepts credit/debit card payments online needs to be familiar with and implement the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. This is easiest for merchants who don't directly handle any cardholder data. For example, if your store hands the shopping...
Image Scaling Tips
Recently Matcha president/creative director Chris Lo and I were hashing out a solution to a problem. We needed to create print-quality images for a client, and use those same images on their website, which we were also building. The problem is that print requires high...
Rhema Bible Church Christmas Lights Extravaganza!
Since 1982, the Rhema Christmas Lights Display has become a main attraction for folks around Tulsa and Oklahoma every year. James Shelby, the creator and supervisor of the electrical department of Rhema, orchestrates this amazing project year after year and the size...
Image Manipulation in PHP – GD vs IMagick
Recently I've been working with image manipulation in PHP, using GD and ImageMagick. Both libraries are very useful but they're quite different in a number of ways. I thought I'd take this opportunity to go over some of the differences and provide some suggestions on...
Web Design and SEO
A great website design is an important part of a good marketing strategy. However, it's also important to realize where the website fits within that strategy, and that it isn't the whole strategy. Even within the website itself, a great design is useless if nobody can...
QR Code Demystified – Part 6
We've covered almost everything we need to create QR Codes. The next thing we need is version information blocks. The version information blocks simply tell the reader what version the symbol is, and therefore how many modules wide and tall it is. Table 11 shows the...
QR Code Demystified – Part 5
Now that we've got the data and error correction sorted out, we're almost ready to place it in the symbol. As seen in Part 2, the data and error correction modules basically go everywhere that isn't taken up by something else. The reason we're not quite ready to place...
Matcha Design Awarded Gold Summit International Award
Matcha Design announced that they have been awarded the Gold Summit Creative Award from Summit International Awards in the Self-Promotion Website category for their website, matchadesign.com. "Big Thank You to SIA Summit International Awards for recognizing...
Matcha Design Places First in the American Design Awards 2011 Winter Semi Annual
Matcha Design announced today that they have received 1st place in the American Design Awards 2011 Winter Semi Annual, non-flash web design category for matchadesign.com. Matcha Design was among 55 winners chosen from 1502 entries internationally. "We are not sure...
QR Code Demystified – Part 4
I had planned on holding off the error correction until later, but it really fits better right here. Before error correction is done, the data that we've generated must be broken down into "code words", which are just 8-bit bytes. All we have to do is take our "bit...
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