Life @ High Road Communications

Web-related news from my job at iStudio High Road Communications

The woes of Lotus Notes’ HTML email support

Yesterday, I had the “pleasure” of working on a HTML email template that was going to be sent from a Lotus Notes client to Lotus Notes clients. If you have had any experience with this dreaded beast, than you know what a troublesome task it was going to be.
The way I see it, trying to [...]

Launch of Sun Life Financial “ParticipACTION” micro site

Last week we prepared a series of three HTML templates for a small micro site that Sun Life Financial is doing for ParticipACTION.
Sun Life wants you to get moving.
This summer the ParticipACTION Sun Life – Inspire the nation tour travels through 31 communities across Canada promoting physical activity. Join us at a tour stop [...]

Skinning Sitefinity: Part 1

In an earlier article I posted back in March, I discussed how I would be working within a CMS product by Telerick called Sitefinity for one of our major clients here at iStudio. Well the designs for the site have been approved by the client and I’m ready to go!
Note: If you are unfamiliar with [...]

Is there any value to a site map?

During my time as a Web developer I have worked on the development of a number of Web sites, ranging from the small and static (5-10 pages) to the large and dynamic corporate sites that have hundreds of pages. What I’ve found to be consistent in all of these is the way the site map [...]

Screencast Review: Professional Frontend Engineering

This morning I checked out a screencast by Nate Koechley called Professional Frontend Engineering, provided by YUI Theater. It’s quite lengthy (1:30), but well worth your time. Although nothing ground breaking or exciting is covered, I found it to be a good kick in the pants. Nate goes over the main technologies that we as [...]

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