Recent posts by Dan Trenkner

dt and Joie de Vivre Partner to Increase Boutique Hotel Bookings!

We are thrilled to be working with Joie de Vivre hotels. Bill, Chuck and I recently flew up to San Francisco to meet with their team and experience a few of their amazing hotels. If you are not familiar with JDV, they are a boutique hotel company founded by Chip Conley. They have hotels throughout California including San Francisco, Orange County, Los Angeles and Sonoma. Each hotel is unique in style and character.

dt Kicks Off Penn State University's World Campus Website Redesign'

We are very excited to announce that we are working with Penn State University to strategize and redesign a new site for Penn State World Campus. World Campus is their online education program that offers students the ability to earn a Penn State Degree or certificate from anywhere in the world. Students are taught by the same instructors that teach in the campus environments and can choose form over 50 undergraduate and graduate programs.

User Experience Explained With Interior Design & Chocolate Chip Cookies

User Experience is transitioning from it’s buzz word phase into an accepted and necessary industry term. However, asking around you may get various definitions and opinions on what user experience really is. Wikipedia states that… More

Fixed Backgrounds: Not just for MySpace & twitter

I know what your thinking, not fixed backgrounds! You mean, like on MySpace? There are some negative connotations that go along with fixed backgrounds but that doesn’t mean that they should be quarantined in MySpace…. More

Social Media: Use It Or Lose It!

Steve Carrell once said, “Is it true if you don’t use it, you lose it?” When it comes to social media, I say yes.  Over the past couple years social media use has skyrocketed and… More

Create a detailed Photoshop button with just 2 layers

Over the years, after countless hours using Photoshop I have become much faster and more efficient when designing. In web design, Photoshop files get pretty massive and usually consist of hundreds of layers. Organizing, grouping… More