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Do you know someone who was mistreated during their time at college? It’s nearing that time of year when students & faculty settle back into the college routine. Thanks to the Office of Equal Opportunity, individuals at UMaine have an advocate to ensure the safety...
We're happy to introduce the newest member of our team, Luke Thomas! Luke is an experienced web developer. He's also an entrepreneur, having started multiple businesses and won three different business plan competitions. Luke will be helping build and launch websites...
The status quo The Town of Orono - a small town of about 9,000 and the home of the University of Maine - had an outdated town website with limited information, no dynamic online services, and a single staff member assigned to maintain the site. The challenge RainStorm...
The status quo The Maine Center on Aging provides programs, education, and services to Maine's elder adult population. With a seven-year-old website and limited ability to maintain the site's content, news, and calendar, the Center on Aging faced limitations in its...
The status quo The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) at the University of Maine is a unique graduate program spanning across four universities and three different private research institutions spread out from Maine's southern tip to its rocky coast and...
The MDI Biological Laboratory communicates with students, partners, and the community via a fully-featured, modern website online at mdibl.org. When MDIBL recognized an ever-increasing list of website visitors arriving from mobile devices, they turned to RainStorm...
2011 is gone so it’s time to take a look back at what happened on the web. A combination of shifting design styles and increased browser flexibility ushered in a new class of trends. So what were the big trends of 2011? And what can they tell us about where we'll wind...
Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski is the fifth release in the A Book Apart series aimed at those in the web industry. Like the other books in the series, this is a compact book designed to get right to the core of a particular topic. This book is unlike Responsive Web...
Most of us have somebody in our lives looking to be more active, or who want to volunteer but aren't exactly sure how to go about it -- for those Mainers 50 years and up, Encore Leadership Corps is an organization helping people do just that, and they've got a great...
More than 25 million American suffer from diabetes. Maine podiatrist and entrepreneur Dr. Todd O'Brien hopes to help fellow medical professionals treating the disease with his company's newest product, NeuroCheck. The product is featured prominently on the...
In a digital age, libraries need simple systems to share their collections across geographic regions. With a national grant to improve Maine libraries' collection strategies, the Maine Shared Collection Strategy (MSCS) also needed a simple, professional website to...
Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte is the fourth release in the A Book Apart series aimed at those in the web industry. Like the books before it in the series, the book is small and intensely focused, a tactic to get you oriented on a specific web development...
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