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Here at Clockpunk Studios, we’re proud of the sites we design, and we continue to draw inspiration from the successes of the people for whom we design those sites. There’s very little that gives us the same thrill as hearing back from clients about what they’ve been up to after launch day. Why? Well, the people who make up the […]
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As an author or small business owner, you have a lot of options when it comes to commissioning your website. There are seemingly infinite possibilities, even taking into account your budget and what you want your site to do. It can be overwhelming to contemplate, especially if you’re starting from scratch, so we’ve composed a handy guide for you. Yes, there
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You wake up one day and your vision is blurry. You Google “blurry vision,” eyes pressed nearly to your computer screen, and find a bunch of websites that advocate eating licorice root for eye health. So you have your significant other drive you to the health food store and get some licorice root extract and maybe some real licorice candy,
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A few decades ago, “big” was in. Big Gulps, Big Box Stores, megachurches, the Notorious B.I.G., supersized meals… there was even a movie, Big. We loved the perceived value of buying “in bulk,” and neighborhoods welcomed the arrivals of Super Walmarts and Super Targets. Bigger was almost universally considered to be better. Nowadays, the pendulum has swung back, and “little”
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As a web design studio, obviously we here at Clockpunk Studios care deeply about cultivating a robust and meaningful web presence not just for our clients, but for ourselves. That’s why we recently redesigned and relaunched our studio site, in order to showcase our favorite elegant, clean aesthetics, as well as highlight our wide range of design skills and tools
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The Hugo Award is one of the highest accolades given out by the science fiction and fantasy communities. The Hugos are awarded at the annual World Science Fiction Convention, which travels around the globe to a new location each year, and it’s quite the event for the SFF community. Eligible works must be written in English and published in the year
One of the many reasons we here at Clockpunk Studios love WordPress so darn much is security. WordPress has made security a priority, so that you don’t have to worry—as much—about your website being hacked by creepy pharmacies trying to sell…. well, you know what they’re trying to sell, or by companies so desperate to work the mechanics of the
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Clockpunk Studios is a web design studio, and that means we get involved with your website at every level. If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know that not only do we produce the finest, cleanest, most robustly-designed author and small business websites around (in our opinion, at least), we also care about our customers. We want them
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Did you know that Jeremiah Tolbert, the founder of Clockpunk Studios and our primary web designer, is also an author himself? That’s right—Jeremiah’s fiction can be found in magazines including Ideomancer, Interzone, Shimmer, Fantasy, and Lightspeed, and anthologies like Federations and The Way of the Wizard. He’s been publishing fiction for over ten years. That kind of publishing experience, coupled
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We’re happy to announce the newest member of the Clockpunk Studios team! For the last eight months we’ve been interested in hiring a new recruit, and we’ve finally found the perfect candidate. He’s proven himself to be eager, on time (early, actually), persistent, and eager to advocate for himself. All joking aside, Matthew Manley Tolbert was born to Sarah and