Author Archives: Topher Overstreet

Flash Corporate Sites Dead?

We highly respect both the comment presented by ickydime and the incredible work that The Basement produces (so much so that we gave them our very first bold link in our blog).  Thank you for your comment.  Readers, if you haven’t taken the time to read their comment to our blog, please check it out.   [...]

Flash Corporate Websites are Dead…Oh…and Intros Too

Flash is an awesome technology.  We at xiik use it all the time, in fact.  You’ll notice that about half of our sites have a Flash element somewhere.  Flash components, integrated into a webpage, are great for displaying several pictures in a rotation, showing video or playing audio.  That doesn’t give you a lisence to [...]

5 Signs You May Be Expecting Too Much from Your “Web Firm”

We frequently hear from clients, “My last web company was HORRIBLE!  Nobody even comes to the site and those that do come think it’s hard to use.  Now I can’t even get them to return my calls.  Can you give us a better-looking site that is actually user-friendly???!”  Hold your horses, Lucy.  It may have [...]

Loyalty: A Little Simple Can Go a Long Way

I wouldn’t say I travel a lot.  But I probably travel more than the average guy.  For those of us who are cost-concious, we definitely know there are a lot of sites out there trying to get us to use them to plan our flight, hotel and car rental.  Well, the primary vendors (the actual [...]

Everybody Else Is Doing It…

You may ask yourself , “Geez…why does xiik have a blog??”  Is it because it makes us seem hip?  Is it to grab another spot on the main page of Google?  Is it simply because everybody else has one, so why shouldn’t we? We’re a interactive marketing firm.  It seems like what some of the other companies [...]