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Christy Lebor
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Matching the Ceiling to the Carpet

If you have a multitude of bar piercings, horn implants, tattoos and earlobe plates, your career as a neurosurgeon, lawyer or funeral director could suffer. In fact, your choice of adornment happens to be perfectly suited to the clients of the aforementioned professionals (head trauma victim, criminal or corpse, respectively). Judgmental? Perhaps, but we nonetheless…

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Migrate from Pancake App to Freshbooks.

Pancake App is a great product, however at some point you might find yourself needing to migrate over to Freshbooks like we did. The problem was that we were stuck on Pancake App because we had no way to get our valuable data into Freshbooks without spending 3 weeks duplicating the data.  There was no…

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There’s Honest, and Then There’s Really Honest.

We have nothing against honesty in branding – give us honesty and humor, and we’re all over it. We have the feeling that a significant chunk of the public feels the same way, which is why an ad student submitted the following Ryanair campaign to CLIO Award adjudicators: “With prices this cheap, shut the f***…

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Using Gigantic Photos In Web Design Is Bad.

There’s a Web trend of using really big, high-definition photographs in websites in order to convey sophistication, or size or … something. It’s annoying, it compromises user experience and it needs to stop.

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