5 weeks ago in Branding, Content, Design
Who are your target customers? Are they like you? Older? Richer? Shyer? Taller? What are their goals and desires? Strengths and weaknesses? Knowing and understanding your target customer base is one of the first steps to reaching them on a personal level (so important!). One of the best ways we know to do that is to create personas. More »
6 weeks ago in Content, Design, Strategy
If you've been keeping up with our blog, you know that we've got some serious beef with how some folks do mobile. But rather than leaving you hanging without a solution, we've outlined some tactics on how to make a good mobile site using the Rise philosophy. More »
7 weeks ago in Content, Design, Strategy
As more people use phones and tablets to browse the internet, interest in having mobile-friendly sites has exploded. With good reason too! According to our friends at Mashable, one half of all local searches are performed on mobile devices and by 2014, mobile internet usage will be greater than desktop usage. More »
10 weeks ago in Design, Strategy
There are plenty of solid reasons why you might want to consider investing in a redesign of an existing website, and we’re excited about the work we’re doing to that end for Gilbert RV Insurance! More »
11 weeks ago in Design
Many new designers, young marketing directors and do-it-yourself clients get excited (and rightly so!) about creating something fresh to grace the face of the internet and sprint directly to the visual payoff. More »
18 weeks ago in Design
How do we love Drupal? Let us count the ways! As our clients ask for and need more from their CMS solutions, we find that more often than not Drupal is the best choice for creating the beautifully robust and responsive websites our clients long for. With our expertise, we can improve upon Drupal’s base offerings and custom-build our clients’ dreams. More »
20 weeks ago in Design, Us
October’s festivities have begun and between the Halloween costumes, spooky music, sweets and practical jokes, this is one of our absolute favorite holiday seasons!
To celebrate, our frightfully talented designer, Frank, has put together a free, downloadable Halloween Wallpaper Calendar. More »
49 weeks ago in Design, Strategy
If change is good, and beautiful websites are better, then beautiful websites that engage your customers in a professional and memorable way are the best...unless you’re creating the memory that your company’s professional website was built around the same time that man invented the first square version of the wheel. More »
51 weeks ago in Design, Us
Anyone who's ever taken a glance at the "About Us" section here at rise.net knows that one of the rock stars on our roster is Ian Sholtys, User Experience Strategist extraordinaire. What exactly does a UX Strategist do, you ask? And just what is UX strategy, while we're at it? More »
1 year ago in Design, News, Strategy
Some time ago, the American workforce started to feel caged in. We got tired of monotone rows of cubicles covered in drably-colored cloth. We began to compare ourselves to the computers we work on. And we quietly muttered from inside our boxes that we were not just information processors, but individuals with ideas! and thoughts! and personalities! that didn’t fit in with the corporate overcast environment. More »
