Facebook recommendations

Time to let the world know about your Facebook recommendations Facebook recommendations are a a great way to let your friends (and in some cases, total strangers, but don’t be too worried about this. You have dealt a blow to your Facebook privacy settings, right? You do know you have the option of making your recommendation public, read more »

New Website: Grant County Tourism

Tour Grant County, Washington – Home of the Solar Powered Vacations The Grant County Tourism Commission hired Design Spike®, Inc to design and develop their new more dynamic website. Recently launched, the new website embraces the Grant County’s theme of Solar Powered Vacations by reflecting the vibrancy, liveliness and diversity of activities for which the region is known. As part of read more »

All about the attitude of gratitude

Social media is about gratitude Well, perhaps it’s more like it should be. It’s the small and simple things that make those tweets tick by and give them life. How many times have you retweeted something, commented on it, shared a link and given credit to the author or original tweeter only to receive nothing read more »

SEO

Are you using right keywords in your website content?

Keywords are kinda important Just how important are keywords when it comes to your website content? Hugely. Extremely. Drastically. Extraordinarily. Inordinately. Immensely. As in really, really, really important. Content is the water that feeds your website river (ack, terrible metaphor, is that not? Well, it is early and it IS a Monday!). And keywords make read more »

Vanishing Facebook News Feed

The Case of the Disappearing Facebook News Feed Apparently, none of the people or Pages we follow seem to be posting on Facebook. Is this even remotely possible or would this be one of those fancy Facebook features? So where did the Design Spike Facebook news feed go? No one knows, however, we do know read more »

That Rock Star mentality is embarrassing

Yes, this is another one of those Queen Narcissa, QN for short, rants (I can never get enough, can I?), so buckle in kids and let’s get this party started.  The Rock Star Cometh I recently attended a local (this means Spokane, folks) educational organization function  with several guest speakers. Being the QN that I am, I sat read more »

Where are the Spokane guys on Pinterest?

Men using Pinterest This post is all about the Dudes of Pinterest in our fair city of Spokane. Hey, I like following locals. So, where are they and are they pinning stuff I care about? Heck yea! And you should go now, get yourself a Pinterest (ding me on Twitter at @AllyShoshana or @DesignSpike if read more »

Website Launch: Northwest Neurological

Northwest Neurological New and Improved Website Northwest Neurological, a clinic dedicated to providing patients with integrated, compassionate and individualized quality care for the full spectrum of brain, spine and nerves conditions, recently engaged Design Spike®, Inc. for a redesign of their existing website including the addition of a customized content management system. Some of the read more »

Free the Twitter World from Obnoxious Spammers

  If you’ve ever used Twitter, you’ve encountered a Twitter spammer. And get this, it’s your job to help rid the world of these evil beasts. And I’m willing to be that even though these annoying spammers are all over the place, many people don’t know how to get rid of them. If you find read more »

Integrating a Contact Form With Trello

Do you like Trello? Do you like integrating things?

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