Welcome everyone, we are undergoing some changes here at Fingertech and one of the first is to provide more insight for potential customers and current customers alike to research and educate themselves on various aspects of the Internet and web design. We are providing this blog as a resource for anyone and everyone and encourage everyone to offer their opinions and knowledge to enhance the conversation.
Economy?
May 18th, 2009
Never before has the economy been impacted by so many elements at one time. As we’ve pushed through these economic hardships currently, there are still many opportunities for businesses, particularly small businesses to strive and maintain their loyal customer base. The Internet is definitely a major factor in many of these small-business’s successes, as they are able to reach customers that wouldn’t have ordinarily found them. We’ve done sites for several small-businesses and individuals that are able to serve the niche markets their products and services target without striving or begging for their business. The Internet is open 24/7/365, and using it to your advantage, especially these days, is virtually imperative.
Form or Function? Both!
January 5th, 2009
There used to be a time when you had a very important choice to make when developing a website. You could choose to incorporate tons of flash, or even create the entire site out of Flash, which required users to have the proper plugins and a computer that could support the technology you used. At the same time, you risked losing all of the potential users that could not load your site due to incompatible browsers, outdated computers, slow dialup internet connections. Luckily, for the most part, those days are over now. As a developer it is becoming easier and easier to push the envelope without risk that users are being left in the dark. Read more…
The evolution of “Web 2.0″
December 19th, 2008
I myself have been reading more and more about the “myth” that is known as Web 2.0. I would have to agree that, most of the time, this term simply relates to an ideology more than a physical concept and that Web 2.0 has become, simply put, a marketing term for developers to con unknowledgable clients into projects that are beyond the scope of their needs. This isn’t to say that Web 2.0 as a general idea doesn’t exist though, because it certainly does. Before this semi-recent rush of Internet technology we weren’t privledged to have AJAX, seemless Flash integration, YouTube, and numerous other instantaneous web applications that make our lives complete.
Before the evolution of the web, we were limited to pretty basic websites. Our designs were simple, square with rows and columns and animated GIFs. Times have immensively changed! The only question left to ask is: where do we go from here?