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Matcha Design Takes Home Three Big Wins Over the Summer with Graphic Design Awards from DesignFirms Web Awards
Matcha Design recently brought home three big awards from DesignFirms in the Graphic Design category for Tulsa based clients, The Maison Group and Oklahoma Energy Counsel and Kansas City based client, Moose Labs. The DesignFirms™ web awards showcase some of the best...
How to Build an Infographic
Infographics have gained tremendous popularity in recent years, as they're an extremely effective and aesthetically-pleasing method for conveying information such as statistics, facts and figures. Infographics feature a graphical depiction of the information to be...
The 5 Keys to Understanding a Client’s Needs
Whether you're designing a website or crafting a printed marketing piece, it's absolutely essential that the client and the designer share a common understanding, as miscommunications can result in disaster. For instance, a client may indicate that they would like a...
How to Use Your Resources to Grow Your Brand to Its Full Potential
At Matcha Design, we specialize in providing a full range of different services to clients. But on occasion, we encounter a client who doesn't use their resources in a manner that allows them to grow their business in a way that leverages all available resources. We...
Speed Up Your Mac – Tips from a former Mac Genius
A few days ago, Matcha Design invited Dina Hunt, a former Apple Genius, to be our guest blogger and offer some practical tips to our fans and followers who use Mac. Enjoy. For the last year I've been enjoying my time away from retail. I've adopted a new role as a...
Matcha Design Honored with 6 Winning Entries in the 2014 Communicator Awards
The winners of the 2014 Communicator Awards have been announced by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts, and Matcha Design is proud to have been honored with awards for six projects. With over 6,000 entries received from across the US and around the world, the...
A Guide to Grassroots Marketing
What is grassroots marketing? It's a common question amongst those who are new to marketing and seeking to launch their first campaign. Grassroots marketing is a unique variety of marketing that utilizes an engaging, interactive, community-based approach. These...
Matcha Design Wins Silver Award For Website Redesign At Summit International Awards
Matcha Design, a full-service conceptual website design and development company that works to incorporate responsive, creative elements in today’s digital sphere, this week announced they have been awarded another prestigious Summit Creative Award for a website...
Matcha Design wins 2014 DesignFirms Web Award for MidFirst Bank Money Moments Online Financial Literacy Course
Tulsa, OK - June 2, 2014 - Matcha Design recently won the DesignFirms web award for the MidFirst Bank Money Moments Online Financial Literacy Course. The DesignFirms™ awards showcase the best work from designers and developers around the world; elevating the creative...
Web Design Experts Develop Web Sites with a Powerful Web Presence
Clients certainly gain a perception of your company based on the looks and ease-of-use of your website. A website gives a company legitimacy and provides customers with a useful source of information. Along with effective search engine optimization, your website will...
Matcha Design Takes Top International Emerging Media Award for MidFirst Bank Online Course
Matcha Design was an Innovator Award winner in the 2013 Summit Emerging Media Award (Summit EMA) competition for their work with MidFirst Bank on MoneyMoments Online Course. “We are really excited to receive the Innovator Award from this year’s Summit Emerging Media...
Matcha Design Wins The Best in Identity and Web Design for Solomon Consulting Group at the DesignFirms Awards
Matcha Design recently brought home two big wins at the DesignFirms awards in identity and web design for Kansas client, Solomon Consulting Group. The DesignFirms™ awards showcase the best work from designers and developers around the world; elevating the creative...
5 Common HTML Mistakes
Mostly I've been pointing out things that you can do with HTML, CSS, YouTube videos, jQuery, etc. But now I'd like to point out things you should NOT do. Some common mistakes in HTML, and next week I'll probably tackle CSS mistakes. In researching similar articles, I...
5 URL Parameters to Improve Your YouTube Embedding – Part 2
This is a continuation from last week's tutorial 5 URL Parameters to Improve Your YouTube Embedding – Part 1. Remember that I'm going to assume that you're using the embed URL format (http://www.youtube.com/v/Sla2VebjkQk), rather than the link format...
5 URL Parameters to Improve Your YouTube Embedding – Part 1
There are many benefits to using YouTube to embed videos. It speeds up user access to the video while reducing bandwidth consumption on your own hosting, and it's a widely familiar interface with many features built in. There are several ways to customize the behavior...
5 Steps to Create a Custom WordPress Theme
WordPress is a very popular blog management system, and with good reason. It's a well-documented and easy-to-use blog platform with thousands of plugins and themes, and best of all, it's free. But if you want your blog to stand out from the other over 60 million...
5 Tips on Custom Web Fonts
It's been a while since web designers were truly forced to use a small collection of fonts in order to have a fairly consistent experience, but too few designers have taken advantage of the numerous ways to provide custom fonts to their users. With that in mind, here...
5 Simply Cool jQuery Functions Unveiled
jQuery is used by innumerable developers worldwide, and for good reason - it's an excellent way of increasing the productivity of your JavaScript development. As such, I've decided to outline a few of its most useful functions. Each heading also links to the...
5 Useful (and Free) Tools for Web Developers
In addition to understanding the languages and best practices, knowing what external tools are available is important for a developer. These are a few tools of which every web developer should be aware. They won't all apply to every project, but they should certainly...
5 Reasons to Use HTML5 Semantic Tags
The header, section, footer, and nav tags, along with several others, serve purely semantic purposes. Traditionally, the div tag most often served to divide up the page into its constituent parts. Like the div tag, these content-describing tags should visually be...
5 Simple On-Page SEO Techniques
Search Engine Optimization can largely be broken down into two areas of effort – on-page and off-page. On-page SEO refers to the content of the individual HTML files that make up your site, and off-page SEO refers to external efforts, such as links to your pages from...
5 Tips For Converting to HTML5
There are lots of new features in HTML5, but some elements from HTML4 have been changed or removed. So here are a few tips for changes you might need to make if you're upgrading. 1. The CENTER tag The center tag was deprecated in HTML4/XHTML, and not allowed in XHTML...
5 Ways to Speed Up Your Website
If I go to the homepage of a website on a computer with a fast connection, and after 5 seconds there are still large pieces of the page missing, something's wrong. So in the interest of making the internet a better place for all, especially those without...
The Competition is Heating Up Between Google and Microsoft
We did a review on Windows Live Skydrive in October. One of the main features Microsoft offers is the ability to create, edit and store Office docs for free online via the browser. It also allows you to view the documents on your web-enabled mobile phone. As some of...
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