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Is your site mobile-friendly?
Screenshot of Google's web-friendly test page

responsive web / Dec 16, 2014 / web development

Is your site mobile-friendly? Ask webmasters this question and you'll get plenty of different answers. Ask Google and you'll get one, a yes or a no. Does this matter? Absolutely!
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comScore's U.S. Mobile App Report 2014
comScore US mobile app report 2014

iOS development / Aug 28, 2014 / app development

"Apps drive the vast majority of media consumption activity on mobile devices, accounting for approximately 7 out of every 8 minutes." comScore's U.S. Mobile App Report 2014. Read more in comScore's report then contact ellanet to see how we make apps work for you!
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Parking App in the works for Northside Business Association!
Northside Parking

iOS development / Aug 22, 2014 / app development

The Northside Business Association (NBA) is a 107 year old non-profit organization dedicated to improving our neighborhood. As part of that mission, they own and operate 5 public parking lots to support the businesses that help make Northside the great neighborhood that it is. The NBA has been managing their parking lots manually, with pencil and paper records, since they began operation. It is easy to see that there has to be a better way. When the NBA approached Ellanet to see if we could help, we were glad to accept the challenge...
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CocoaConf Columbus 2014
CocoaConf Columbus Aug 8-9 2014

iOS development / Aug 10, 2014 / web development

Zach and Bruce are back from CocoaConf and ready to put their knowledge to work for you. First off, what a conference! The good people at CocoaConf put on a a great conference every time, and we are grateful for their efforts. This year...
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CocoaConf Here We Come!
CocoaConf

iOS development / Aug 04, 2014 / web development

To CocoaConf we go! Super excited to be attending a bit of awesome in the next few days, as we will be engaged in listening and learning from the best iPhone, iPad, and Mac developers in the region at the Columbus edition of CocoaConf...
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Responsive Web for Every Budget
Sam Hollingsworth responsive site

responsive web / July 28, 2014 / ellanet sites

Local artist Sam Hollingsworth isn't your typical watercolor artist. When he came to us asking to redesign his site and make it fully responsive, we worked with him to come up with a very cool layout that worked within his budget...
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What does Google My Business mean for your business?
Google My Business

google news / June 20, 2014 / web development

This week Google announced a consolidation of sorts. What was formerly Google Search, Google Maps and Google+ for your business have merged, giving you one stop access to your information on Google. From Google My Business you can access your business listing, manage reviews (Google reviews only, of course), access AdWords and Insights, and manage any YouTube videos you may have...
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Those Were the Days...
ellanet Mosaic browser of the past

ellanet sites / May 28, 2014 / web development

Sometimes it's nice to reflect how far we've come as a company since we started in October of 1997. Bruce Demske started the company as the internet was really taking off and we did web design, hosting, and programming, just like we do now, and networking, which we really don't do anymore. It's hard to remember but back in those days Novell was the predominant networking software, Windows for Workgroups and Windows NT 4 were still new to the scene, most computers shipped without NIC's, and sharing a printer was hard! You saw a lot of email addresses at aol.com and a lot of email addresses that looked like 12345.16789@compuserve.com. I used Mosaic but Netscape was taking over the browser market and for email it was Eudora. Good times!
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