NVI blog: SEO, web design and social media

We all know online communities have become a guiding and influential force in individual decision making, networking and basic day-to-day contact. As these communities grow larger everyday, with younger and older generations jumping on the Internet every second, web-based marketing companies must learn to understand why reaching out to a [...]

In this Wordcamp Montreal session, Brian Rotsztein explored how Wordpress can be used as an CMS. Everything that follows this italicized paragraph is based on his presentation, and does not represent my own ideas.
Brian started off with an overview of what a CMS was — namely, software that allows you to update a website. In [...]

Moderator: Tracy Falke
Speakers:
Jonathan Allen, Director, SearchEngineWatch
Puneet Bhasin, Independent IT Consultant
Casey Rovinelli, Director, Digital Marketing, National Hockey League Players’ Association
Casey takes a personal approach to presenting by leaping off the stage and asking people in the audience what their challenges are when marketing approaches IT. Two members of the audience attack each other in an passive [...]

During Make Web Not War, we caught up with Mark O’Sullivan and Brendan Sera-Shriar of Vanilla Forums. Vanilla is free, open-source forum software and, like Wordpress, offers a hosted version, as well.
Mark and Brendan discussed how Vanilla strives to do away with a lot of the clutter in other forum platforms. They also touched on [...]

Yesterday was the Make Web Not War conference in Montreal. The keynote was presented by Joël Perras (@jperras) and I have to say it was more than interesting.
It was called “Maker of the web” and talked about us the web developers, our users and the state of the web.

photo by motionblur
According to M. Perras, [...]

Another one of the sessions we attended at the Make Web Not War conference yesterday, was called “Let’s Start to Work in HTML5”. During this session, speaker Benoit Piette gave an overview of what’s to come in HTML5 and how to implement it and begin trying out its supported features.
Speaker: Benoit Piette
Let’s Start to Work [...]

The final session we attended at the Make Web Not War conference yesterday, was called “Cascading” into CSS3: Exploring the features of CSS3 and the use of jQuery as a substitute. For this session, speaker Nathaniel Bagnell explored the features of CSS3.
Speaker: Nathaniel Bagnell
“Cascading” into CSS3: Exploring the features of CSS3 and the use of [...]

Another one of the sessions we attended at the Make Web Not War conference today, was called “Why Just One Isn’t Good Enough.” During this session, the panelist discussed the advantages of being able and willing to develop websites in/with both Microsoft and open-source technologies. The panelists included:

Moderator: Jeremy Wright
John Oxley
Guillaume Bouchard (our CEO)
and Julian [...]

This is an interview with Brendan Sera-Shriar (aka @digibomb), an open-source web developer. We caught up with Brendan the night before Confoo at the pub that all the speakers were hanging out at. Brendan was scheduled to give a presentation, as well as sit on a panel. He told us about his new project, CreerMag.com. [...]

So the new Propeller design just came out. My god. No, it’s not April 1st. It’s a design so bad it wouldn’t even be plausible as the poster-child for bad design. Ok, maybe not that bad. Just kidding - it IS that bad. “What were they thinking,” is the appropriate cliché. See/click on the photo [...]