Blog

Truthdig Nominated for Webby (Hat Trick!)

The month of April is often the herald of springtime. With it arrives warmer weather, an explosion of flowers, and the announcement of nominees in the 13th Annual Webby Awards. (I bet you didn’t see that last one coming.)

Our client Truthdig has been nominated for a Webby for the third…

Announcing: Edit This Plugin for ExpressionEngine

Our newest ExpressionEngine add-on is a totally handy plugin that makes site owners happy—we use it every day on our own clients’ sites.  Edit This displays a link from any part of any page on your public site, direct to the control panel page that will let you edit that content. 

Edit…

Special Project: Code name Frog

Sometimes our clients come to us with with fun ideas they want to try on their sites, and we’re happy to be a collaborator. At the beginning of March, after attending Festival du Bois, Alex Brabant and Mario Beaudoin came up with an idea for an April Fool’s Day joke they wanted to play on…

We Recommend Nexcess.net for Web Hosting

In our proposals, we almost always recommend Nexcess.net for Web hosting.  Why? Simply put: because they respond quickly, every time we contact them.

Not just some of the time, not with a lame response and then a 6 hour wait for a real response.  They fix the problem and get back to us…

Getting the Dirt Daily

Cindy McNatt came to Hop Studios with the idea of starting her own blog driven project. She has a background in journalism, and is a staff writer with the Orange County Register but she was interested in breaking out on her own. Her project was to launch a new blog under the name Dirt du…