http://www.rendercreative.com/blog/ en adam.dorsey@rendercreative.com Copyright 2009 2009-10-28T21:18:47+00:00 http://www.rendercreative.com/blog/render-referral-program-we-get-paid-you-get-paid/ http://www.rendercreative.com/blog/render-referral-program-we-get-paid-you-get-paid/#When:21:18:47Z Introducing the Render Referral Program (RRP) Do you know someone who needs a website, print design, logo, video, or another creative service we provide? Why not make some cash? It’s easy. Tell them to call or email us, and provide your name as a referral. If they become a client, we’ll give you 10% of their first job. For example, if they want a website, and we quote $5,000.00, you get paid $500.00 when we get paid. It’s that easy! Who knows… If you’re good, you could even make a career out of it! Feel free to email us if you have any questions. We know it sounds to good to be true. News 2009-10-28T21:18:47+00:00 http://www.rendercreative.com/blog/adam-dorsey-hired-by-ellislab-now-offering-community-technical-support/ http://www.rendercreative.com/blog/adam-dorsey-hired-by-ellislab-now-offering-community-technical-support/#When:19:18:07Z Render's own Adam Dorsey was hired by EllisLab to provide support to the ExpressionEngine community. Adam has been building ExpressionEngine powered sites for over two years, and is looking forward to giving back to the community. Adam is the latest Tech Support Specialist to be added to the EllisLab Support team, one of the most revered support teams around. "The EllisLab team has been amazing, and is really making me feel at home. I love ExpressionEngine and the EE Community, and am honored to be a part of something this freakin' cool!" - Adam Dorsey Read more about EllisLab, here. Read more about ExpressionEngine, here. ExpressionEngine 2009-10-13T19:18:07+00:00 http://www.rendercreative.com/blog/get-ready-to-ride-the-google-wave/ http://www.rendercreative.com/blog/get-ready-to-ride-the-google-wave/#When:19:31:45Z What is a wave you ask? A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time. The software will even correct spelling errors on the fly. IM and E-mail are still alive for now but they will head the way of the fax in the next few years get ready to catch the wave! Google 2009-10-09T19:31:45+00:00 http://www.rendercreative.com/blog/our-new-site-is-up.-finally/ http://www.rendercreative.com/blog/our-new-site-is-up.-finally/#When:22:06:21Z The new Render site has launched today after 4 months of development. As any agency will tell you, one of the hardest things to find time for is internal work and self-promotion. Well after working on-and-off for 4 months, we are finally finished. The new site has tons of new features, bells and shiny whistles. We are using the latest Expression Engine Content Management System, jQuery, and a host of add-ons. Tell us what you think! Self Promotion 2009-09-30T22:06:21+00:00 http://www.rendercreative.com/blog/google-editions/ http://www.rendercreative.com/blog/google-editions/#When:22:07:21Z The expected launch of “Google Editions” will be in early 2010. Making over a half million e-books available initially for purchase through google or another vendor such as Amazon or B&N. These books will be viewable through any device that has a web browser. The purchased e-book is placed in a “cloud” making it accessible any where in the world. They have gained rights to a large number of books many of which are out of print or ones where no copy write holder can be located. Google ofcourse plans on sharing the profits fairly with publishers and the retailers of the E-books sold. This service is separate from Google Book Search which is of course there plan of scanning all the books known to man (10 million and counting) and making them available on-line. This development will continue to cause confusion in the E-reader market since google is taking a browser centered approach to such devices as they usually do and no firm universal format has been established for the readers yet. Google 2009-09-08T22:07:21+00:00 http://www.rendercreative.com/blog/great-google-resource-many-myths-debunked/ http://www.rendercreative.com/blog/great-google-resource-many-myths-debunked/#When:19:53:43Z As a web developer I am often asked Google-related questions, that are sometimes difficult to answer. Well, I stumbled upon an excellent resource today, that I thought I would share. Google has a great YouTube Channel for Webmasters. Google employees provide answers to everything from “Why doesn’t Google validate” to “The popular myths about duplicate content.” Now I am armed with “actual” answers from the source, and I can now speak the *truth* to my clients. Thanks Google! Google 2009-05-09T19:53:43+00:00 http://www.rendercreative.com/blog/render-ad-campaign-wins-gold/ http://www.rendercreative.com/blog/render-ad-campaign-wins-gold/#When:10:14:16Z The 2009 Addy Award Show was full of amazing work, from all over Baltimore. This was one of the best shows that we have participated in yet. We are very thankful to have been honored among so many talented designers, and agencies across town. We can’t wait to see what everybody is working on this year! News 2009-04-15T10:14:16+00:00 http://www.rendercreative.com/blog/render-is-on-twitter/ http://www.rendercreative.com/blog/render-is-on-twitter/#When:21:34:04Z You can check out our Twitter Feed on this website, or go directly to our twitter page. Social Networking 2009-03-25T21:34:04+00:00 http://www.rendercreative.com/blog/render-ad-campaign-featured-in-istocks-designer-spotlight/ http://www.rendercreative.com/blog/render-ad-campaign-featured-in-istocks-designer-spotlight/#When:11:24:06Z We are pleased to share that our Ad Campaign was featured in iStock’s Designer Spotlight. We also got some nice comments. Check it out at, iStocks Designer Spotlight. Design 2009-02-18T11:24:06+00:00 http://www.rendercreative.com/blog/ahh-the-joys-of-raw-computing-power/ http://www.rendercreative.com/blog/ahh-the-joys-of-raw-computing-power/#When:21:07:35Z Thanks to the kind folks at Boxx Technologies, we are the proud new parents of an amazing 3D Boxx workstation. We love nothing more than to sink our teeth into raw computing power, and this one packs a punch. Featuring: 2 – Quad Core Intel Xeon Processors Nvidia FX 4800 – 1.5 Gig 16GB Ram 1,500 Gigs of Storage We can’t wait to put this machine to the test! Hardware 2009-02-17T21:07:35+00:00