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Daily Pilot Takes Flight

Five sites!  Five sites launched in a day!

Actually, it took us a little longer than a day—more like several months of designs and prototypes and coding—oh, the coding.  But this Tuesday, five newspapers owned by Tribune Company via The Los Angeles Times launched with a clean new look, a…

Professional Bloggers Association Site Launched

Hop Studios launched a site today for the Professional Bloggers Association (bet you can’t guess how we got involved with that!). This was a rush job so that the association, which has just started up, could have a Web presence in time for the Blog Business Summit being held in Seattle next…

Where Are Our Clients?

It’s a common question since Hop Studios moved from Los Angeles to Vancouver, Canada: Where do our clients live and work?

In general, they’re all over the map.  There are some clients we’ve never met in person, and others that we’ve known for years (we’ve been doing Web design since 1995…

New Voices Launches Today

Today we launched a rather ambitious site: It’s of fairly large scope, and its goals are even bigger.  The site is New Voices, and it’s a grant-funded citizen’s media project that seeks to underwrite “the start-up of 20 micro-local, news projects with $12,000 grants” and then foster…

Problems with Customer Service (We Hope Not)

We often recommend Jumpline as our Web host for new clients. They keep the servers up.  But they also do some pretty lame brained things, like this weekend.  They sent out, this December, a “Fall Newsletter.” (It’s reproduced in full below.)

What the newsletter didn’t say was that they…