People are continuing to quit their jobs at record rates, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting that there were 11,000,000 job openings in the month of October. Anecdotally, we've also seen an uptick in the latter half of this year with companies approaching us about filling positions in ...
We get this question a lot. It's a good question. Completely sensible. If you were building a house, you would want to know the cost up front before you started. Like a house, the cost is entirely dependent on what's going into the build and how large that build is going to be. A garden shed is ...
After months of planning, design and development, Ethode is pleased to announce the launch of the new LeBronJames.com site. Ethode implemented a design by Seattle-based designer Kevyn Smith. We knew from the start that LeBron James deserved a stunning website that would highlight the many ...
Four months ago Bernie Moreno, an exuberant, outgoing luxury car titan laid out his vision to make Cleveland a tech hub; using Blockchain as the catalyst. Reactions abound from disbelief, to snickering, too flat out denial. Our initial hope was to gather 500 conference attendees (mix of ...
Every superhero has its faithful sidekick. Batman has Robin, Archie has Jugghead, Deadpool has Bob. And Ethode has Trello. Trello is our superhero sidekick tool for planning new projects, writing down feature requirements, and managing tasks. We use it to share files and collaborate on documents...
During a meeting with our project managers, we walked through the ethical obligation of working on a project we believe is doomed to fail. If a client comes to us with an idea for an app they would like us to build, and a budget appropriate for their app, should we build the app even if we ...
Introduction Today we're going to make an animated loader/spinner image. Loaders and spinners tell the user to sit tight while the the browser or server does some work. We could just look up some generic spinning icons or animated gifs, but why do that when we can roll our own, learn a lot and ...
MIAMI, FLORIDA and MEDINA, OHIO - dotCMS and Ethode are pleased to announce the launch and availability of a new SAML Authentication Module for dotCMS, a powerful content management system that can be managed on-premise or in the cloud. With the SAML Module, dotCMS administrators can now login once ...
On July 30, 2018, we had the privilege of launching a website for the I Promise School, a brand new public school taking an innovative approach to education right in our own backyard of Akron, Ohio. The I Promise School is the product of a partnership between Akron Public Schools and ...
Imagine if a friend of yours called to tell you they had the most wonderful experience with a flat tire. Or if a colleague shared with joy that their smartphone fell into the office toilet. What if your boss shared that they had been asked by the higher-ups to slash budgets by 25% on all fronts, and...
Why Markdown is better than HTML or WYSIWYG If you’ve had any experience in web development or web content management, you’ve likely come across Markdown at some point in your adventures. What is Markdown? Here’s the quick refresher on Markdown: At the most basic level, Markdown ...
Slack is our water cooler, whiteboard, system monitor, and boardroom Slack is our company’s #1 tool for communications. It’s our headquarters, collaboration hub, email replacement tool, and water cooler. We use it for our daily standups, where each team member shares what they worked...
Websites for counties, cities, public schools, and townships often fall short of expectations. Their layout and navigation are clunky and outdated. Web pages don't receive timely updates. Community information and documents are handwritten or scanned from old paper documents, poorly organized, and ...
As the number of people worldwide that use the Internet grows (4 billion and counting!), keeping up with hacking, phishing, malware, and other shady web security issues becomes even more of a priority. Whether you use the Internet for work, to stay in touch with friends, post updates to social media...
One of our core values is Continual Improvement - Never Stop Learning. We share articles in our Slack channels that are particularly significant to the work we are doing, may help a fellow developer learn something new, or things we just find intriguing. From that bloomed "The Weekly Geek", where ...