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Critical Lessons from Facebook in Modern Marketing 26 Aug 2013 | 09:08 pm
Approaching its 10 year anniversary as a platform, Facebook has come a long way from the dorm rooms at Harvard. Despite its humble beginnings as a social sharing site for undergrads, Facebook has expa...
Online Gallery Using Your Social Media Site Photos 24 Aug 2013 | 01:37 am
A client recently needed a nice and easy way to update a gallery for a client website. There are many to choose from, but it was narrowed down to using a social site gallery of their choice, since the...
University of the Virgin Islands Responsive Cascade Site Launched 23 Aug 2013 | 08:21 pm
Beacon is proud to announce the release of the University of the Virgin Islands site redesign at http://www.uvi.edu! This is a stunning site that really displays the innovation and beauty of “the pla...
3rd party plugins, a cautionary tale 20 Aug 2013 | 11:42 pm
One of the many questions you’ll have to answer when developing your website will be whether to use custom built in house solutions or easy to integrate 3rd party systems. It’s certainly easy enough t...
Redesigning Without Frustrating Your Users 10 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
Your users rely on your website to get things done. They are used to doing it a certain way. So when things change, people get frustrated. Nevertheless, change is necessary. So the job of your web des...
Image not showing on Android Motorola Droid Razr Due to Color Mode (RGB vs. CMYK) 2 Aug 2013 | 11:02 pm
When you have a content system that allows for end users to upload their own photo the root cause of a development ‘bug’ could be something completely unknown to the developer, like how the image was ...
The Importance of Social Media. Your Questions, Get Answered! 2 Aug 2013 | 05:05 pm
Is your company using Social Media? If not, this post is for you! Here at Beacon, we encounter many new clients who aren’t on Social Media and really don’t understand the importance of it. Since we he...
The (Social) Medium is the Message 31 Jul 2013 | 07:12 pm
Over 50 years ago, Marshall McLuhan studied the media as a way of understanding society and why we live the way we do. A professor of English at the University of Toronto, he put forth the idea that t...
Embedding the New YouTube Subscribe Button on Your Website 26 Jul 2013 | 11:22 pm
This week YouTube released an embeddable subscribe button for your website. This neat little shortcut allows users to subscribe to your YouTube channel in just one click. Follow along for a quick How-...
Engaging Users in Social Media 26 Jul 2013 | 06:13 pm
Almost every site uses some type of social media to help their brand awareness and what they are trying to achieve with a large audience. The most popular social media sites like Facebook, Google+, Tw...
