A few posts ago we mentioned we’re entering the Calgary advertising world; everything from campaign development to simple pay-per-click (PPC) ads. One of the main forms of advertising today are the static and dynamics ads you see alongside popular social media networks and search engine results. The platforms used are designed to target a specific demographic and the when accompanied by an eye-catching design, increase the click-thru-rate (CTR) to a specific website or link. Since search engine optimization (SEO) can be quite competitive, another popular option can be these PPC ads that help you save time and money by defining your audience and streaming filtered traffic to your preferred destination. We’ve create an example here for the Canada Photo Convention; it fits a standard size on Facebook and Google. The amount of text meets advertising requirements and the design is eye catching and targeted toward photographers. If you’re looking to […]
talonX Web Support System
We’ve added a sweet little spot where you can submit tickets for assistance. While we’ve got no problems with you email us or calling us, this helps us keep track of everything in an orderly fashion! We’re also including a regularly updated knowledge-base of our most common FAQ that will help our lovely client sort their changes out faster! We’re usually pretty speedy, but we want to enable all of our clients to take charge of their website. So go ahead and start ticketing, searching and querying! And if you have any questions about how to submit a ticket, then submit a ticket! Er. Or call us! Check our support website and submit a request for your website needs.
Calgary Web Design, New Media and… Advertising?
Hello reader (hopefully readers!). We here at talonX want to wish you a happy and exciting 2014. 2013 has gone by in a jiffy and has been our must exciting and a year where we’ve experienced massive growth! Back in the day we started with simple web design, only inspired by the belief that we could do more than what was out there and that’s led us to branching into all sorts of different media; animations, design, print and now… advertising? Yes that’s right, we’re moving into the advertising field. What does that mean for you? We’re not ditching web design in Calgary, in fact we think we’re merely enhancing what we’re capable of doing by branching into more new media. We’ve had consistent requests for areas of media we were less familiar with and have thus grown into some roles that we previously had ignored — politely of course. […]
Merry Xmas from talonX
Well it’s that time of year again, the time when we try to separate ourselves from our computers and take at least a day or two to breathe before the ambitious projects for the next year. Since we’re afraid to show our faces we opted for an infographic in lieu of a standard Christmas card. Behold, the facts of Santa Claus, where we’v brought arbitrary numbers together to give you some perspective on what Father Christmas has to accomplish this holiday year. Enjoy!
How Websites Are Born
Ever wonder how talonX makes such cool sh*t? This infographic details our biggest secrets, most value assets and sneakiest tricks in the book to get your web and graphic design looking as slick and polished as possible! After viewing this you still have questions… well we simply can’t help you then. Enjoy!
2013 Design Charity Project
We’re proud to announce we’ve completed the 2013 Web Design Charity project we offer every year for Movember (nothing beats Web Design with a mustache). This yea, we continued our trend and chose to work with Zana Fund, a 100% volunteer based organization that helps businesses in third world nations raise enough capital to grow and prosper. Our team designed a simple and clean event oriented site as well as a ticket for the event. There’s still time to make the event (November 28th!) if you’re interested. Get down to Commonwealth Bar and donate some money to a good cause. November seems to be the charitable month before we move into the heavy Christmas season. To view the website, please visit: party.zanafund.org
Actually Useful WordPress Tips
We love WordPress but without a doubt there are some bits and pieces of it that just cause us to throw up our hands in vain and want pound our keyboards into oblivion when tweak after tweak, revision after revision fails to change the one little thing we’ve been trying to do FOREVER. Below we’ve included three of things we’ve found most annoying when learning WordPress and so our client can avoid some of the bumps and bruises when trying to modify their website to make it look a little better. Removing the Info Box on Google Map Embeds Google Maps is great and doesn’t steer you down one way roads the wrong way (unlike that dangerous/semi-suicidal Apple Maps!). The issue arises that when you insert or embed a Google Map on your WordPress site either via HTML or sometimes plugin, the little info box over the pin that you’re […]