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What We Ask New Clients

When clients first contact us to ask us to build them a website, they come to us with wildly varying levels of detail.  Some have a design and text and a domain name and everything already picked out, and they never change their mind or ask for something impossible or impractical.  We call…

Hop Hiatus

This is a quick notice to let you know that Hop Studios will be on vacation May 15-26, and unavailable for hourly maintenance or project work. If you know you will have updating needs during that time, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can make arrangements for that to…

Find-A-Sweetheart Finds a New Home

Find-A-Sweetheart has been a sweetheart of a client, and owner Kathryn Lord has been growing her site for years.

She finally outgrew her Blogger/HTML pages/Contribute system, and we moved the whole site into ExpressionEngine this month.

We didn’t change the design hardly at all, other…

Retainers and You: When Is a Retainer a Good Idea?

Recently, we at Hop Studios raised our rates in order to stay competitive and to better handle the increased demand for our services.  As we did this, we mentioned to several clients that it was possible to arrange a lower rate if they paid a retainer, and though there was interest, there…

Improvements at Truthdig

It’s been just a short time since we updated you on Truthdig, but the site just keeps on improving.  Some of the newest changes to the site:

• They served their 1 millionth unique visitor
• They added a section called “The Truthdig Interviews” which has conversations with some interesting…