I’m writing this blog from my sons room. It’s about 915 at night and I’m watching him try to fall asleep. And apparently trying to fall to sleep means doing head stands and playing with th epictyres on the wall and trying to trap his feet in the rails of his bed. Don’t worry I’m [...]
Well as part of the process of cleaning up our web presence, we are now moving on to re-designing and rebuilding Ryan’s Rants. MorningStar will have it’s own blog in the new year written collectively by everyone at MorningStar and maybe the occasional guest blogger. Ryan’s Rants will have it’s own responsive website that will [...]
Don’t you just love a good before and after?! It’s one of the great pleasures of my job. One of my favorite transformations is a website that we did for an orthopedic practice in New Jersey. Here’s the old website (you can click on it to see a bigger version): And now the “After” result: [...]
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again again again…(ok sorry you get the idea) I LOVE WEBSTATS!!! Yes, it’s true I love webstats and so should you. Just wanted to post a quick rant today, a few months ago we started a web campaign for an Orthopedics practice. In addition to organic search, [...]
For the past dozen years that I’ve been working in the web world. It’s been interesting watching and noting some key areas in web development. Or maybe more accurately put, the growth of technology that people surf the web with and how websites deliver information to the that device. To a certain degree, the growth [...]
Recently, I made my annual trek to Pubcon to get my web geek on! Pubcon takes place at the Las Vegas Convention Center which is a huge complex and holds the majority of web geeks from around the country! Pubcon always gives me great insight on things to come in the web industry, from social media [...]
(((Hello my neglected blog, how I’ve missed you so…or maybe how I have had no time to write…or wait what’s that on Facebook…shoot…. focus Ryan focus…you can do this))) As I mentioned in my last rant, this cobbler finally got his new shoes. Although my “shoes” comes in the shiny form of the new MorningStar [...]
At MorningStar, we have a long running joke that when it comes to our marketing “we are cobbler kids who have no shoes”. Our current website is old, out dated and has been in massive need of attention for years. But we get so focused on our clients work that we always push and push [...]
Well, it’s been just over a year since our company made a decision to jump feet first into WordPress, an open sourced CMS platform, and we haven’t looked back since. Last year I attended Wordcamp in San Francisco 2011 as a newb. I managed to keep up and bring back some gems for the crew [...]