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Hop Studios Receives Two Awards at EEConf 2021 Conference

EEConf 2021 Winners

We are so chuffed to have won two awards at the annual EEConf 2021 conference. The event for the ExpressionEngine CMS community was held virtually on September 29 and October 1. Attendees were treated to business case, web accessibility, e-commerce, and development presentations, and there…

Hop Data Juggler: Rearrange ExpressionEngine Data Any Way You Like

You designed and built a solid database structure for an ExpressionEngine website a few years ago and it’s been working great! But now you find you want to use a different field type than you chose originally, or use data from a custom field in a new way, or merge or split two fields. That…

Google Ads Demystified: A Conversation about Search Engine Marketing

Getting set up to use Google Ads can be a dense and daunting experience, even for those of us working in the tech industry every day! Hop’s president Travis Smith is joining forces with Alex Brabant of eMarketing101 to demystify Google Ads and search engine marketing during this year’s…

Hop Studios Closed Sept. 30 to Observe Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

For almost a decade, people across Canada have commemorated Sept. 30 as Orange Shirt Day. This year, legislation passed by the federal government of Canada implemented Sept. 30 as a new federal holiday, National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, to mark an important part of the…

New Team Member: Arian Xhezairi

There are a lot of unusual things to talk about when it comes to Arian Xhezairi, Hop’s new developer.

For starters, he has a last name that contains both an X and a Z! If only you could play that in Scrabble!

Nomenclature aside, Arian is probably better described as a self-trained senior…