Websites Prepare For The Year Of The Tablet

The popularity that Amazon developed with the Kindle and Apple has reinvented in the IPad has taken notice by Google, Microsoft, and Blackberry amongst others. In 2011 websites need to prepare for increased viewership on the mobile operating systems that tablets run on. We project that 2011 will be known as the year of the…

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WordPress Tutorial – Adding Images & Video To Posts

In our continued effort to provide a gallery of tutorials for WordPress users, we would like to share the tips around adding images and video to your blog posts. Adding images and video can help enhance the design and appeal of your content. Static content heavy sites are often ignored even if the content is…

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WordPress Tutorial on Creating Blog Posts

CPD is creating a series of tutorials for beginners using WordPress. These tutorials will be posted on our blog on a weekly basis and will all become available on our YouTube channel. The types of useful tutorials you can expect will include: creating blog posts, adding images and videos to posts, managing page content, creating…

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Wave Goodbye to Google Wave

Earlier this week Google owned up to the low adoption and poor customer reaction to their 2009 ‘breakthrough’ product Google Wave. “We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google…

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Improvements Made To Google Images Search

Yesterday Google started rolling out its improvements to Google Images which now allows up to 1,000 images to be displayed in a single search page. This new website technology is called ‘infinite scroll’ which allows for fewer clicks and a faster ability to find the image you are looking for. When scrolling over any image, a…

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Pros + Cons of Google Voice

Last week Google announced that they have opened access to Google Voice for everyone in the U.S. (previously available by invite only). According to Google, “Google Voice isn’t ready for businesses and schools quite yet, but we’re exploring additional functionality for organizations.” We will stay tuned for future updates and functionality, but this is a…

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Apple messing with the wrong company: Adobe

Yesterday’s exciting release of Adobe CS5 included new features that allow users to build programs in Flash and then convert the software into IPhone Apps which can then be sold in the IPhone Apps Store.  This technology is one of many improvements Adobe has made in the effort to allow designers to develop applications without…

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Using Text Messaging To Help Haiti

Monday, January 18, 2010 – UPDATE – the there has now been over 2.1 million text message donations received and over $21 million raised for Haiti Relief Efforts. Thursday, January 14, 2010 – The Red Cross has now raised over $3 million dollars through their text message campaign to help Haiti. By sending the text “Haiti”…

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Favorite Places on Google Maps Just Got Smarter

Crown Point Design was recently recognized by Google as a favorite location on Google Maps. We received a letter from Google that included a 5×7 decal that is meant to be placed in your storefront window. On the decal there is a unique 1×1 inch bar code that can be scanned by a Smartphone by…

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