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A place where we discuss the communication industry and give our insights on advertising, website development, graphic design and strategic planning.

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Fresh (and ancient) perspectives on the evolution of brands

By Josh Norman

Creative people have a knack for finding inspiration in unexpected places, and for following lines of thinking into new spaces. It’s an effective way to keep unique ideas flowing, even if some of them turn out to be useless. The hunt is always on, though: What’s the one great concept that could make a single piece of creative or an entire advertising campaign exceptional? I recently started handpicking audiobooks that I would listen to while driving to and from work each day. I was surprised
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How to get the most out of your graphic designer

By Kelley Olmedo

Transitioning from traditional academic to design courses during college was difficult after years of being told exactly what to do by teachers. I was suddenly given free reign and encouraged to just “be creative.” In hindsight though, the more years I put into design, the more I realized it was never truly free reign; I simply needed to adjust to solving problems creatively instead of academically, and like other designers, my straight forward, black and white approach subtlety transitioned
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3 things every WordPress developer should know about Drupal

By Texas Creative

Sometime back in the mid to late 2000s when most web developers/designers began seeing the writing on the wall when it came to content management systems, most of us bit the bullet and also decided try one out. After all, our clients were pushing for it and it’s what all the cool kids were doing, so we begrudgingly fit it into our workflow. Open-source CMS's drew the most attention, especially the ‘big three’ — Joomla, WordPress and Drupal. Naturally, I was curious about each so I evalua
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Choosing the right CMS for your website

By Art Williams

As a client of a communication firm or marketing agency, why does it matter what content management system (CMS) is used to build your site? More importantly, should you even care? These are difficult questions, but that’s why we’re here to help you answer them. The Right Partner If you don't read any further, pay attention to this … the right development partner that understands your objectives and has the expertise and desire to help you attain them is worth more than any CMS. No matter
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Texas Creative & Heartbleed

By Art Williams

Notice: We've investigated our hosted resources along with Rackspace, our hosting provider and have determined that our production hosting platform is not vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug. We're not using the vulnerable version of OpenSSL on our production server. What's Heartbleed? In order to encrypt a website with an SSL certificate, encryption keys are generated. The most common program used to encrypt, transmit and confirm these keys is OpenSSL. The security vulnerability that was discovere