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Jan 29 | Posted by Dave Fletcher | Add a Comment
Both the NYC and London offices of theMechanism are hiring.
New York City
We’re seeking a creative, confident and professional Web Developer for our NYC office. You’ll need to demonstrate that you’re an efficient xHTML/CSS expert who stays on top of future trends. We’re looking for someone who is excited, creative and can work in a comfortable team environment to develop standards-based, lead-generation sites.
Central London
We are looking for a developer with 3-4 years experience building functionally-rich web applications to join the team in our Central London office.
Read more about the opportunities and apply here.
Jan 28 | Posted by Dave Fletcher | Add a Comment
theMechanism is excited to launch our newest podcast series: barKode.
While our other podcast, theMechcast focuses on group discussions, barKode (partially named after the last name of our Senior Developer in New York, Jeffrey Barke [note the wry use of his last name barKe in the title]) will be focused on educational web design and standards-based talks, including those delivered at the The New York Web Standards Meetup Group. The first episode of barKode is called, “Web Mapping Part One–Google Maps Tutorial” where Jeffrey Barke, Senior Developer at theMechanism, leads a two-part discussion on web mapping in general and Google Maps in particular. Part Two will be on February 21st at 6:30 at the New York Creative Bunker.
You can subscribe and enjoy future episodes of barKode at feedburner.
Dec 4 | Posted by Joshua Ingber | 2 comments
… Yet, there is no crying in baseball, and I am not sure there was ever a time in history when it was socially cool, outside of Russia, to play chess. There are other unnatural mysteries that confound me, like why people use Sacajawea coins or why there wasn’t a sequel to Dances With Wolves. Billy Joel’s words ring true, “surviving is a noble fight”.
The upward trend in interracial marriage suggests there is hope for the world. Yes, maybe we will all sit by a pool on a sunny day wearing hyper-color T-shirts, sipping on bubble tea without the bubbles. Until then, we survive. And for those us who are finishing the race, we look back at the two basics which sustained us: hope and good design.
Hope may be dashed in some parts of the world with the ongoing war, the ever growing gap between the rich and the poor, and the writer’s strike, but that is short-lived. For all that hope requires is a flashlight strong enough to beam through the darkness. Then people dream again of pools and bubble tea.
Design is a far more fragile matter. Our sense of quality comes from design. A well designed argument enriches our lives, a well designed hair style can inspire a generation, and a well designed automobile can help attract the opposite sex. Unfortunately, an argument can be shattered with bullets, a hair style can be combed over, and an automobile can be destroyed by a jealous lover. Without design we’d have no sunny days, no pools, no hyper-color shirts, and no bubble tea, as these were all inventions of designers. (Thank you G-d, for the sunny days).
So this holiday season, hug a good designer. Because if design dies, we pin our hopes for survival on hope itself. And I ask you this, what would we hope for?
Jul 5 | Posted by Dave Fletcher | Add a Comment
theMechanism is proud to have Waggener Edstrom’s Consumer Group website featured on CssGlance.com as an example of a well designed and innovative CSS based website.
CssGlance.com is the first italian website focused on providing its audience with a database of well designed and innovative CSS based websites from all around the world. They want to show that good design and web standards are two sides of the same coin. CssGlance even has a pretty little button for our website:
CssGlance.com is yet another thing we love about Italy – alongside Garlic Bread and Meatballs, of course…
Jul 3 | Posted by Dave Fletcher | Add a Comment
According to Smashing Magazine, theMechanism’s recent design for Waggener Edstrom Consumer group is “Inspirational, Usable & Elegant”. They also threw around words like “profound” and “enduring” too.
We wholeheartedly support and trust their judgement.
From Smashing Magazine:
We all love beautiful, usable and impressive web designs. To achieve them, web developers need to focus on many aspects, but basically it all boils down to the question, how well the content is presented and how easily the information can be perceived. Harmonic color schemes are as important as solid and consistent typography. Precise visual structure and intuitive navigation are essential for both usability and accessibility. In fact, mostly it’s a keen attention to small details which gives web-sites a profound and enduring nature.
We’ve selected some more of them. Over 60 elegant, usable and impressive designs with a well thought-out color scheme, typography and visual structure. Their beauty lies in the way the information is presented. Their usability lies in the way they communicate presented data. That’s what makes them different.
Have a peek at all the inspiring designs from various firms right here.
