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Q4 Forecast: Cloudy with a Chance of Spending

If you’re a local business in a swing state, Q4 is gonna be awesome. You’re not? Well, fasten your seat belts. You’re in for a bumpy ride for the remainder of 2012.

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Bing It On Challenges Google

Microsoft’s Bing has always had an image problem despite its best efforts. In a move vaguely reminiscent of the Pepsi Challenge, Bing is challenging users to pick their preferred search engine using a blind, side-by-side test. The big question is: could this all be too little too late?

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Why Firefox should be the default

I was reading a post on Mozilla’s blog about why you should make Firefox your default browser and I thought I’d post MY (more realistic) reasons why. I’ve also written a little bit about the other standards-based browsers out there (Safari and Chrome). As professional website design and developers, we HATE Internet Explorer. There are …

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Updated: myJDM v4.2

We’re proud to announce the launch of an update for our client portal, myJDM. In the new version (v4.2), myJDM now sports Google Analytics data, an updated help file and project status gauges right on the client dashboard.

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Microsoft New Logo look Familiar?

Despite popular articles asking how Microsoft lost its mojo, the tech giant sees 2012 as a year of rebirth (according to their blog anyway). On Thursday, Microsoft unveiled its first new logo since 1987. While Adweek writers see it as ‘pretty damn nice‘, we can’t help but ask: “Does that logo look familiar to you?!” …

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Anything for Beer

Dallas digital agency buys prospects beer rather than asking them to complete a ‘meeting request’ form. Does it work? You bet! It’s proof that you can’t just blame the form. Blame the offer. “Nobody completes those ‘meeting request’ forms.” is how the conversation always starts. I’m not saying I disagree. I’m saying that it’s not …

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What’s Your ProScore?

JDM regularly encourages (and sponsors) employees to take on side projects that either benefit the community or challenge us in new and innovative ways. Today, we’re proud to announce the launch of our latest project, ProScore. ProScore is a free site scorer unlike any on the web today.

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JDM Digital Announces New “Debit Retainer”

While many clients think of digital agency retainers as ongoing monthly fees, JDM is proud to announce a new retainer structure we’re introducing. Our new “Debit Retainer” is different and works pretty much like your TollTag. We still offer project-based work for individual projects with a defined scope for clients whose needs are discrete. However, …

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2 Great Responsive CSS Frameworks

Who has time to tinker with 22 responsive frameworks? Seriously! Here are two of our favs.

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Everyone Needs a Sandbox

When I was a child, I had a sandbox. I absolutely LOVED that thing. Now I’m in the digital business, I still have a sandbox, but it’s a digital one used for testing, learning and tweaking web technologies for clients. Of course, EVERYONE with a website should have a sandbox. Why? There’s a difference between …

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Are We Ever Really Unplugged?

According to research conducted by Good Technology, 80% of Americans work “after hours” via their mobile devices. It got me thinking about just how critical businesses having some sort of mobile presence has become. Consider that that “after hours” work adds up to around an extra full day of work per week and you start to see that if you’re practically invisible via a mobile device, you’re invisible to prospects a full day a week – every week of the year.

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Shared Hosting Reviews

Whether you want to start a blog or manage your business’s website, you’re going to need website hosting. If you’re like most people, you don’t want to buy a web server and manage it yourself, so you’re looking into shared hosting. Unfortunately, there are SO many to choose from it’s enough to make your head …

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