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Hop Studios Spawns ThinkSalmon

Today is a good day.  Today, we attended the launch event for Think Salmon.  Sure, we’ve launched websites before, but this is the first launch we’ve done that’s been attended by a government minister (BC Minister of the Environment, Barry Penner), with speeches and banners and buttons and…

A Design Dissection of EllisLab.com (formerly pMachine)

Here at Hop Studios we are big fans of a content management system called ExpressionEngine. We’ve used it for at least the past two years, and some of our biggest and more exciting projects are run using heftily tweaked and configured installations of this amazing tool. (Both Truthdig and

Spam Scams Stopped by Sam Members!

We were privileged to redesign http://www.samharris.org in July of 2006. Along with the website of this influential thinker and writer, we inherited oversight of a thriving forum community. Filled with active members, the Sam Harris Forums explore issues of faith and society. However, an…

Speaking at Northern Voice

Susie and I spoke this morning at the Canadian blogging conference, Northern Voice. I did a talk called “How to be a Citizen Journalist.” Susie’s talk was about how “Why Every Website Should Use Blog Software.”

I have to say, I had a great time doing my talk.  The audience was…

Casting Call: Calling all Ducks!

Hop Studios is auditioning for a new rubber duck icon.

If you have a rubber duck with a nice face and great body that looks great on camera, let me know and we’ll arrange to bring it in for a photo shoot.