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It’s Time to Look Beyond Google

Many of us have gotten accustomed to Google dominating the search engine market. However, according to Business Insider, both Yahoo and Microsoft are actively trying to convince Apple to choose their search services over those of Google to be the default search provider in Safari, Apple’s…

Tweet Louder: Get Your Site Using Twitter Cards

If Twitter is a significant source of traffic and referrals for your site, consider dressing up those tweets by implementing Twitter Cards.

Twitter Cards (which look no more like “cards” than Twitter posts sound like “tweets,” but let’s not get hung up on that, it’s not like that’s…

Hop Studios Acquires Mountee

We have just completed the purchase of Mountee, a Mac application that makes ExpressionEngine templates editable as files on a virtual drive.  It’s been an important pillar in our workflow, and we know it’s been just as important to many of you.  We’ve been long-time believers in EE, and…

Innovative Ad Behavior

At the beginning of the summer, Hop Studios set up an new type of ad placement with our client Noozhawk. Their timely, seasonal Summer Fun section merged news stories about summer activities for kids, with a browsable directory of activities, camps, teams, and workshops. Traditionally…

Are Visitors Blocking Your Site’s Ads? Find Out, and Do Something About It

If you’re web user that uses ad-blocking software, you’re in good company. And by good, of course, I mean there are a lot of you.

For website visitors, there are lot of upsides to turning on ad-blocking software: more privacy, faster page loads, and most of all, relief from…