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Taming Wild West Style Branding Efforts: There’s A New Sheriff In Town

Wednesday, February 10th, 2016 by Drew McManus

Since it was originally published in 2012, the free Website Branding Style Guide resource here at Adaptistration has been a steady fixture among the most popular content. No worries, that resource isn’t going anywhere in the near future but it is worth pointing out that a similar service from a relatively new provider, Frontify.com, is available and offers considerably more than Adaptistration’s comparatively straightforward version. One of Frontify’s team members, Josip …

Look Like A Genius!

Wednesday, July 15th, 2015 by Drew McManus

One of the single most daunting problems arts orgs face when converting to responsive design is embracing the mobile first concept; meaning, you no longer envision website design from a desktop-only or desktop-first perspective. Instead, you need to begin with the mobile browser environment and work your out from there. Sure, that sounds great but who has a few dozen mobile devices laying around to see how your site looks and …

Look Like A Design Genius With These Photoshop Templates

Wednesday, June 17th, 2015 by Drew McManus

A good Photoshop (PSD) template can save hours of time and frustration when designing branding elements for social media platforms and over the past year, you’ve probably noticed the trend toward larger, full width header images. These look terrific and since every major social media platform functions within a responsive website environment (where content is relocated across different browser widths) that means you can no longer be lazy and put together …

Thinking Responsively Part 2

Wednesday, August 6th, 2014 by Drew McManus

Picking up where we left off in Part 1, we’re going to walk through the steps you can use to begin “thinking responsively” about your organization’s website. To that end, let’s start off on the right foot and acknowledge that the vast majority of performing arts based websites are designed using the old school static Photoshop mockup cycle of design, focused almost entirely on desktop layouts. Should you do it this …

Thinking Responsively Part 1

Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 by Drew McManus

Responsive design has been a boon for arts organizations and what was once a nearly unknown term three years ago is increasingly common; so common in fact, that the development field is beginning to distort what responsive design is all about. Case in point, one of Venture’s users, Rachel Carneglia at Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens Online Marketing Coordinator, recently pointed out an article at venturebeat.com (no affiliation to The Venture …