With shows like “Mad Men,” “White Collar” and “Downton Abbey” putting the suit back in the spotlight, Pixafy client Alton Lane is well-positioned for growth, and was featured in a recent Boston Globe article highlighting the trend. Continue reading
Alton Lane benefits from younger generation suiting up
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May 21, 2013
Categories: Client spotlight
Tags: 3-D scanner, Alton Lane, bespoke suit, Boston, Boston Globe, custom-fit suit, New York, tailoring, Washington
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Introducing Pixafy Creative Director Abraham Kwak
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Abraham Kwak is the newest member of our Pixafy team, bringing with him an enthusiastic love of interactive design and development. His background makes him a great addition. We asked him our standard interview questions as he was settling in:
Q: Where are you originally from? Do you still have family there? Do you have any siblings? If so, what do they do? Any significant/insignificant others?
A: I was born and raised in NJ. NYC has been my “2nd home” growing up. Most of my family is in South Korea. I am the only child. Continue reading
May 20, 2013
Sublime Text 2 advanced techniques [part 1]
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Sublime Text 2 is one of the fastest code editors around. It’s also stable and extendable, with a number of plugins that allow you to heavily customize your editor. We received a lot of interest on our previous blog post on Sublime Text 2, so we decided to write a follow-up with Sublime Text 2 advanced techniques. This is part one, for your reading pleasure!
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May 17, 2013
Categories: Tech topics
Tags: advanced, advanced Sublime Text 2, code editor, Dropbox, echo, intellisense, Kurt Kemple, mklink, PHP, Snippets, ST2, Sublime Text 2, Sublime Text 2 projects, techniques, text editor
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50 essential mobile apps [part 2]
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We recently asked our Pixafy team which apps they use on a regular basis and received a ton of responses! Last week, we brought you part 1 of “50 Essential Mobile Apps.” Here’s part 2, with 25 additional essential mobile apps that Pixafy folks use on a regular basis: Continue reading
May 16, 2013
Categories: Tech topics
Tags: games, Into the Dead, mobile, mobile apps, NYC Subway Maps, OpenTable, Pandora, Pulse, ROM Toolbox Lite, Seamless, Seconds Pro, Songza, SwiftKey, Team Viewer, Titanium backup, Tumblr, Twitter, Uber, UberConference, UberSync, Venmo, WebMD, WiFi Tether, Wunderground, Youmail, zombie apocalypse, zombies
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A catered approach to lunch for our team
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Pixafy always looks at various benefits that we can offer our employees. We launched a new one we can’t wait to “dish” about: Catered lunches. Continue reading
May 15, 2013
Categories: Pixafy History, Work Experience
Tags: catered lunches, Food, lunch, Pixafy, relax, team, work-life balance
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SusieCakes on growth amid ‘cupcake crash’
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Time Magazine featured SusieCakes in a recent write-up about how their business is bucking the trend of many bakeries that put too much focus on cupcakes, instead of quality baked goods as a whole. Continue reading
May 15, 2013
Why social commerce will become the eCommerce standard
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Pixafy is thrilled to introduce guest blogs to our site. If you love our posts and think you have a must-read topic to contribute, please drop us a line!
The following post is by Justin Butlion, Content and Social Marketing Manager at Yotpo.
Why social commerce will become the eCommerce standard
The eCommerce industry, like every other industry online, has been shaken up by the socialization of the web and the explosion in smart phone adoption across the world. The industry as a whole has benefited from the billion or so people that have connected online in the last 5 years but overall has been slow to integrate and leverage the numerous social tools and networks available. In this post I will focus on this hesitation and make an argument for why those that decide to adopt social commerce principles will be around to tell the story, and welcome in a new era, where social commerce becomes the eCommerce standard. Continue reading
May 14, 2013
CSS subpixel rendering
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Working on a responsive site a little while ago, I was running into a very strange problem where elements were refusing to line up.
I had a list of menu links (<a> tags wrapped in <li>’s) and above them I had <h3> tags labeling each section. All the widths I was using are % based. The <h3> tags were 100% of the wrapper, the <li>’s the same (and their wrapping <ul>’s), and the <a> tags were 90% width with 5% padding on the sides (90%+5%+5% = 100%) width <span>’s wrapping the inner text.
And yet somehow the <h3>’s were appearing a tiny bit longer than the <a> tags when testing on mobile! In fact they were exactly 0.5px off. That is really odd and I knew it had to do something with subpixel rendering: Continue reading
May 13, 2013
Categories: Tech topics
Tags: CSS, css subpixel rendering, mobile, pixel, responsive, responsive design, span, subpixel rendering, subpixel rendering fix
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Custom events in Magento
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This year, I’ve been working extensively in Magento, which is a change of pace from the custom-coded, “from the ground up” projects I’d been doing previously. I was excited about entering this “brave new world” because with my background, I felt I could take quickly to find ways to extend Magento’s core functionality. One example that was brought to my attention was custom events. Continue reading
May 10, 2013
Categories: Magento, Tech topics
Tags: custom events, initialization, Magento, module, Wordpress
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A Birchbox reveal for Melanie Dunea
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Pixafy client Melanie Dunea is always up to something fun and interesting. Whether it be talking to chefs and celebrities about their last supper, hosting a fundraiser for those affected by Sandy, or sharing her experiences on Twitter, she’s always got something exciting in motion, and puts herself out there a bit while doing it. Continue reading
May 10, 2013
Categories: Client spotlight
Tags: Birchbox, fundraiser, guest blogger, Hurricane Sandy, Melanie Dunea, My Last Supper
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