by Nicole Ouellette | Jul 15, 2013 | Websites
I love these questions that come the moment you aren’t expecting them. “Isn’t designing a website easy?” a new friend asked me. “You know, with tools like Squarespace, Wix, etc, do people still need web designers?” I gave kind of a...
by Nicole Ouellette | Jul 10, 2013 | Websites
Being among the masses that help people with computer (or more accurately internet) problems daily, there are a few things we the geeks would like you to know: 1) Sometimes we don’t know what you are talking about. Really. 2) Sometimes we genuinely can not...
by Nicole Ouellette | Jun 14, 2013 | Websites
We had a recent client who was so grateful for our work she insisted we put ‘Designed by Breaking Even Communications’ at the bottom of her website. I refused. She couldn’t believe it, and I couldn’t think of a way to explain it well at the...
by Nicole Ouellette | May 1, 2013 | Websites
To some people in our area, there is an epic Facebook group called ‘Bar Harbor Barter and Swap’. It’s a closed and small group, mainly of people getting rid of random stuff (SCUBA fins!) or looking for random stuff (universal car seat stroller). Two...
by Nicole Ouellette | Apr 25, 2013 | Websites
When Robert approached us about a website redesign, we could see that while the information on his site was current, he needed a visual refresher. Robert wanted to use a logo that Z Studio had made several years ago. He also wanted it really obvious how to make a...
by Nicole Ouellette | Mar 27, 2013 | Websites
If you’ve read this already on Facebook, my apologies but I did want this to become part of the ‘official’ record on my blog. It also explains why I disappeared from this blog in the middle of a 30 day blogging challenge. About three weeks ago, I...