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New Website: Grant County Tourism

Tour Grant County, Washington – Home of the Solar Powered Vacations The Grant County Tourism Commission hired Design Spike®, Inc to design and develop their new more dynamic website. Recently launched, the new website embraces the Grant County’s theme of Solar Powered Vacations by reflecting the vibrancy, liveliness and diversity of activities for which the region is known. As part of read more »

If you’re gonna tweet, try to do it right

  If you’re gonna tweet, try to do it right Queen Narcissa time – Truth: sometimes I can be annoying when it comes to tweeting on my personal account @allyshoshana, not to be confused with the company account, @DesignSpikeUSA. I can RT one too many things, respond when no response is needed and on occasion read more »

Twitter Terms Everyone Should Know

  Twitter Terms Everyone Should Know Nothing is more annoying than watching tweets stream by using terms or acronyms you don’t understand and while this post may seem remedial, truth is, there are plenty of acronyms that pop up or grow in popularity that leave some folks in the dark. And if you’re new to read more »

New Client Website Launch: Spokane Public Radio

New Client Website Launch: Spokane Public Radio Design Spike ®, Inc – Start Building Your Nest Egg By Getting An ROI On Your Website Spokane Public Radio provides excellent radio programming throughout the Inland Northwest region and they needed a website that matched the quality of the service they provide. Enter Design Spike ®, Inc. We read more »

Spokane’s Pig Out in the Park Squealed

    PRESS RELEASE Contact: Laura Bracken Company: Design Spike®, Inc. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Address: 522 W. First Ave. Spokane, WA 99201 Telephone: 509.252.5060   SOCIALLY SPEAKING, SPOKANE’S PIG OUT IN THE PARK SQUEALED If you listened carefully, the sounds coming from Spokane’s Pig Out in the Park were more than happy little grunts from read more »

Spokane Civic Theatre Website Redesign

    Virginia Baxter (Graphics Woman otherwise known as Ginny) selected Design Spike to partner with her on a redesign of Spokane Civic Theatre’s website. Ginny will completely redesign the Spokane Civic Theatre website while Design Spike has the opportunity to draft navigation, cut, code, program and build a big bad database driven website that read more »

Too Many Hashtags

  Now, I’m not whining about the overuse of hashtags, rather I’m pointing out that using too many hashtags makes a tweet look as if it is written in code. Never is this more true that with social media hashtags. This list, which hardly encompasses all, is exhausting. What, did Twitter join the military or read more »

Lady Gaga “You and I” Website Fail

    Lady Gaga’s Jo Calderone appearance at the recent VMA’s sparked my curiosity enough to check out her website. After all, anyone as creative as Lady Gaga has to have a killer website. Am I right or am I right? Ok, am I naive or am I naive? I never actually got far enough to check read more »

Blogging About Blogging

Guest Post by Perri Greeley So, you’ve started a blog because all the cool kids are doing it. You thought “Hey, this will be easy – I’ll throw some content up on the Internet and pretty soon I’ll have millions of followers hanging on my every word!” Well, in reality, attracting and keeping readers takes read more »

Landing Page Optimization

Guest Post by Perri Greeley When you create a landing page, you have one goal in mind – to convince the visitor to take action. In order for this to happen, you must: 1. Make a clear, easy to complete call to action: Internet users are lazy… they want to be able to complete the read more »

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