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Closed for Veterans / Remembrance Day

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Hop Studios will be closed on Nov. 11 for Remembrance Day / Veterans Day.

We don’t always get to close on holidays, because we have U.S. and Canadian clients, and U.S. and Canadian employees, so Victoria Day, July 4th, and Thanksgiving we end up being kind of sort of…

To sIFR or not to sIFR

Hop Studios is on a quest to make the internet easier to use and prettier to look at. Sometimes, however, these two goals come into direct conflict - The techniques needed to create unique and attractive websites are sometimes unwieldy and buggy. Take for example, sIFR, or Scalable Inman…

Electro-Harmonix Relaunches

Hop Studios projects often tend to be an even mix of design and development work, but in the case of Electro-Harmonix, the project was pure development. The design ground work had already been laid by project manager Scott Matthews. He’d taken the original site from flash-based to HTML and…

Tips on Working Remotely

Hop Studios is a small five person company, with two principles and three employees, one of whom works with us from Boulder, Colorado. Having team members based from different locations is a common occurrence amongst many tech businesses these days, and it can be a tricky business to keep…

EE Roadshow a Big Success

The EE Roadshow was a big success for us last Friday, starting with the event completely selling out and ending with a great party. Havana Theatre proved to be a good venue for the event, with plenty of tasty appetizers and drinks.

While the majority of attendees were from around…