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Apply to be a (paid) T&S intern: 241-1051

By Tim Priebe on August 27, 2009 at 10:58 pm in General

Amber Hanks, current intern

I’m excited to announce that we’re ready to hire new interns for the fall. We’ll be hiring both design and programming interns. There will be either 2 or 3 of each, for a combined 40 hours designers and 40 hours programmers.

And these are paid internships, though we’re fine if you get school credit for them as well.

If you’re interested in joining our team here at T&S, just call our intern job hotline at 241-1051. Listen to the entire message, then leave the information that you’ll hear me ask for.

And if you know of anyone who would be a good candidate, be sure to pass this information along to them as well.

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Evaluating a website’s credibility

By Tim Priebe on August 26, 2009 at 10:41 am in Design

A couple years back, Stanford performed a large study to determine how people evaluate a website’s credibility. Take a look below and see different factors influence your website visitors.

(Categories with less than 3% incidence are not in this table.)

	Percent (of 2,440 comments)	Comment Topics (addressing specific credibility issue)
1.	46.1%	Design Look
2.	28.5%	Information Design/Structure
3.	25.1%	Information Focus
4.	15.5%	Company Motive
5.	14.8%	Information Usefulness
6.	14.3%	Information Accuracy
7.	14.1%	Name Recognition and Reputation
8.	13.8%	Advertising
9.	11.6%	Information Bias
10.	9.0%	Writing Tone
11.	8.8%	Identity of Site Operator
12.	8.6%	Site Functionality
13.	6.4%	Customer Service
14.	4.6%	Past Experience with Site
15.	3.7%	Information Clarity
16.	3.6%	Performance on Test by User
17.	3.6%	Readability
18.	3.4%	Affiliations

Just the look of the site made up 46.1% of the comments! The next closest was over 10% away. This is a dead giveaway that sites like craigslist are the exception to the rule, not the rule.

Your website really does need to show your best side. Not just because a web designer tells you so, but because the research shows that it really does make a difference.

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Why you need to be blogging now

By Tim Priebe on August 25, 2009 at 1:05 pm in blogging,Video

Thanks to Christina Hills for posting the following on her blog. I thought I would share it with my audience as well.

Here is a very short video clip from Seth Godin and Tom Peters (both best selling authors) on why you need to be blogging now. And you’ll be very surprised to hear what they say. It’s not the typical ‘Internet Marketing’ talk. Instead it sums up one of the reason’s why I feel it’s important for you to blog (and to be posting to Twitter)

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Brand spankin’ new sites!

By Dave Roach on August 21, 2009 at 6:48 pm in Client Plug

Recently we have launched three more new sites, Dental Depot, Westwind Digital and TS Dudley.

Dental Depot‘s site covers all of their locations in Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. Their site resembles what the inside of their offices look like, truly a unique dentist office. You can view their website in our portfolio.

Westwind Digital Communications installs business telephone systems, provides computer networking hardware and services, and installs video surveillance equipment. You can view their website and their business cards in our portfolio.

T. S. Dudley Land Company Inc. (TSDI) is an energy service company in the business of providing professional landmen, acquisition agents, and project management to the energy industry.