The New TKG.Com

January 29th, 2009

Sometimes a new design is a great idea,  while other times, dear sweet everything even remotely holy, maybe not so much. The good news is we’re pretty sure ours falls under the former.

You can probably guess by how often I’ve been blogging lately just how much I can come up with to write about this, so instead of trying and risking humiliating failure, I will instead direct you to what our professional writing-stuff-about-stuff people had to say about it, as well as list some quotes from the key people who actually built it about why the new site is so sweet:

 Colin: Development Team Lead “I like the simplified homepage experience. It directs users to our major areas of interest so they don’t get lost. I think we made a more typographically engaging website, which is easier to read and digest.”

David: Senior Designer “It’s search engine optimized, user experience driven, and pretty darn cute… it’s custom tailored for our users based on statistical analysis and client feedback, we’re deploying a strategy that has been 10 years in the making. Looking good, being seen.”

Kyle: HTML Programmer “The new site is a lot more “clean” and more focused… I think it is more engaging overall with more of a doorway into our office instead of a window peek.”

… and new individual section designs are still being added to the site, so  keep checking back. Hey, we might even fix my bio pic so that I no longer appear to have lost both of my eyes and then had the side of my forehead caved in by a shovel (which I presumably couldn’t dodge due to the aforementioned eye deficit).

Release of Google Chrome good for Developers

September 5th, 2008

Whether or not you like the idea of turning over yet another aspect of your life to Google, Chrome is a great tool for developers. If for no other reason than being the newest browser base built with the most recent standards and technology in mind, it offers us some great new opportunities.  Here is a quick hit list of how you can use Google Chrome can help you as a developer:

  • Chrome is based on multiple processes, not a single thread. While existing browsers would get hung up waiting for an intensive Javascript to finish running for example,  Chrome is able to work around it.
  • Chrome’s Process Viewer lets you examine the individual components of a webpage to allow developers to diagnose slow spots and more finite issues easily.
  • Chrome uses Google’s V8 javascript engine, and Sand Box security provides safety and independence of platform.
  • Chrome’s code base was built from the ground up with an understanding of where the web is today, not 7 years ago.
  • Javascript used to mean smaller apps and programs.  Chrome is designed to handle the large and complex Javascript applications that the web is comprised of today, such as gmail.