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Blog au Roux

Great Creole cuisine comes from the blending of cultural influences — French, Spanish, Caribbean and African — to create a truly distinctive and memorable taste. Our varied backgrounds allow us to share our collective expertise. As for Creole cooking, we start with one core piece of advice, “First you make a roux…”

Previous entries from June 2010

Mudbug Design Awards

I am extremely excited and pleased to share that the 2010 Gambit Magazine Best of the Web Awards recognized three Mudbug Media clients as the Best of New Orleans.  An ecommerce website we designed for HADAKI earned a third place recognition, while Ursuline Academy’s website and Ochsner Health System’s Choose Ochsner campaign were recognized as the Best School Website and Best Online Ad Campaign, respectively.

Newest Team Talent

New Orleans – Mudbug Media has added two new employees to its graphic design team. Elise Hotard and Samantha Barnes, both graduates of Nicholls State University, bring fresh thinking and exceptional design skills to the web technology, design and marketing communications agency.

JQuery, CSS & Kuler

In the world of graphic design, you really have to keep track of the current trends. Technology changes and evolves every day, especially web-based technology. The best way to keep track of what is going on is to steadily build up your bookmark library to include as many design-centric blogs and websites as you can.

Here are a few of the many, many websites the design team at Mudbug Media go to every day. Pretty much every designer contributed to these links, which are great resources for anyone involved with graphic design.

Perks of an Algorithm Update

Caffeine, Google’s new web indexing system, has been the talk of the SEO world for some time.  Google began sandbox testing nearly a year ago, and blogs have been speculating about how this will affect SEO and SEM ever since.  This week it’s official, and Google’s Matt Cutts has given us the rundown of the algorithm changes and what it can really do.

Inside Ruby on Rails

One of our favorite frameworks here at Mudbug Media has to be Ruby on Rails.  Ruby is an open-source language that is very developer friendly, aided by the huge library of elegant and feature rich third party libraries available.

Ruby as a language has always been useful, but the love affair didn’t really begin until Rails came along to provide direction.  Now there are countless online ecosystems devoted to all things Ruby.