5 Cool Business Trips
I love to travel, and I've been lucky enough to get to take many interesting trips in my time at NewCity. Here's my top five trips taken in the last year or so.
Someone Else’s Code
Head down, fingers tapping and teeth gnashing, that’s how you’d find me if I was working on someone else’s code. I want to rewrite it. I mean, it’s awful just look at it. There are no comments and there are ternary operators where they shouldn’t be and they aren’t used where they should be. And to make it all worse, the code is littered with tons of inane variables like temp and iter.
On The Road Again…
NewCity is on the move...traveling all over this great country of ours meeting with clients, on photo & video shoots and presenting to potential new clients. Check out where we have been this week and over the summer.
Faking a print piece from a flat working file
Imagine that you just got done comping a print piece and now it''s time to show the client via web conferencing. You want it to look as real as you can, but something is missing - it looks too flat. Here's a simple & fast way to suggest what it will look like when actually printed.
Roanoke College Makes the Best of the Higher Ed Mobile Site List
One of our favorite clients, Roanoke College, was featured on the .eduGuru’s “Best of the Mobile Higher Ed Web” list.
We created the mobile site as a Christmas gift for Roanoke College- a Marketing Department can only eat their way through so many Harry & David towers. What sparked the idea for a mobile site? With the increasing demand for…
Sometimes it IS the Destination…
It’s Not the Destination, It’s the Journey
It’s a nice thought. Put it on a t-shirt or on the bumper of your car.
But on your website, The Destination is what it’s all about. What do you want people to DO, really, on your website?
Unless your website is a wiki or if you just want to provide information to site visitors, as a…
Examples from our Portfolio
Results that speak.
"I went expecting the typical Blah Blah Blah for four hours hoping I would glean at least one or two pieces of information that would be helpful.
I was completely blown away! Every single piece of information was on point and beyond useful."
- Attendee, Beyond Blah Blah workshop at CSU East Bay


