Those of us living and working in Gainesville, FL have had to put up with this knuckle head “preacher” for awhile now.

Yeah, you have the right to express yourself and so do I -here goes-”you, sir, are an idiot.”

1) You MESS with Gator Football.
2) You are just an idiot.

Now, we see how web designers and web developers have intersected with this idiot’s desire to burn Qurans.

This article describes the intersection between buring the Quran, Gainesville, FL and web design.

Interesting how those terms and agreements (and you KNOW you don’t read them either) reach up and bite you - especially when you are an idiot.

Here is to hoping that the UF Gator Football game is the biggest event in Gainesville this weekend.

Be safe.

Web design in Gainesville, Florida? Not today! It is the start of Gator football. See you after the game.

WOW!  This is a fantastic read of an telegraph article by Murray Wardrop.

“Google’s Eric Schmidt suggested that young people like Ozean Interactive’s web designers will actually have to change their name because they have shared so much detail on social networking sites.

I can not begin to tell you how scary this is.  College is a time in people’s lives when mistakes are made.  I mean who has not had that night in college they regret?

I can not tell you how many prospective interns, prospective designers, prospective developers with great resumes - NEVER get a call for an interview after four quick searches:  google, facebook, twitter, and foursquare/gowalla.

Want to know if an prospective intern is a partier / idiot / etc……?

Look at the time stamps of tweets - if all done at 3:30 am…..and regard some type of party / hook up / rant….

If every photo on facebook is of them hugging their BFF with a red cup in your hand…..professing just how “F* up are we?”

If google’s first SERP result is a newspaper story about your DUI / your shoplifting / your drunk and disorderly conduct / etc……

If every single one of your check-ins are @ [insert bar name here]…..

Don’t get me wrong….

I did some/most of these things….I just didn’t record it for everyone to find - before my job interview.  Here is a hint - got a great resume, yet STILL NO INTERVIEWS???? - check your social media.

Privacy has changed dramatically in the past 5 years.  Essentially, there is none!

Web Design in Gainesville, FL has its advantages!

This web design agency located in Gainesville, FL has access to something that few other web design agencies posses - we have a creative inspiration: a muse if you will.  When we are stuck on a web design or the next creative, big idea - we just pack up and head to gator football practice.  After all, it is right around the corner.  There is something about the click clack of cleats and the whistles that just free the mind.

You must understand, in this web design agency, we are Gator fanatics.  One of our favorites clients?  The Gators.  Not to mention that everyone from the interactive creative director to the website sales people, are proud Gator graduates. We ONCE thought about making an offer to a web design account executive that graduated from Florida State University - but quickly came to our senses. (Something about our lawyer informing Ozean that hiring someone from Florida State University did not “officially meet the definition of an affirmative action plan.” or some-other nonsense. )

On another note, we extend an invitation to all of our friends and past interns that will be making the pilgrimage to Gainesville for a game to stop in.  We miss you.  Let us know you are coming, and we might even make you a margarita.

We have moved to our new location. And since we are so nice, we are even including directions from South Florida & Miami.

Look forward to seeing you, and go GATORS!

This article from Entrepreneur Magazine.    I REALLY like the flops.

“So you want to create some excitement. You want that video you made to go viral. You want the evening news talking you up. You want, in other words, to pull off a successful marketing stunt. That’s all well and good, but if you want a marketing stunt to be a success, you should be looking at the long run. You’re looking for a stint, not a stunt…..”  (click to continue)

Newsweek: Forget Brainstorming

What you think you know about fostering creativity is wrong. A look at what really works.

According to University of Oklahoma professor Michael Mumford, half of the commonly used techniques intended to spur creativity don’t work, or even have a negative impact. As for most commercially available creativity training, Mumford doesn’t mince words: it’s “garbage.”

A good read from Fast Company.

An excerpt::

I also think the article beautifully plots out the path of creative thought:

“When you try to solve a problem, you begin by concentrating on obvious facts and familiar solutions, to see if the answer lies there. This is a mostly left-brain stage of attack. If the answer doesn’t come, the right and left hemispheres of the brain activate together. Neural networks on the right side scan remote memories that could be vaguely relevant. A wide range of distant information that is normally tuned out becomes available to the left hemisphere, which searches for unseen patterns, alternative meanings, and high-level abstractions.

A good article from Infoworld, on how you can start to incorporate HTML5 into your website development today.

What can I do with HTML5, and when can I start using it? The good news is that there’s a lot you can do with HTML5. The better news is that there’s a lot that you can do with HTML5 today.

But first, one major caveat: You need to know your audience, though, of course, this is true whether or not you want to start using HTML5. If the majority of your site’s visitors still use Internet Explorer 6, then you have no reason to rush. On the other hand, if your site is primarily for mobile browsers on iPhones and iPads, what are you waiting for? But if your site falls somewhere in the middle — as most do — here are some handy guidelines to ramping up to HTML5.

http://designm.ag/resources/chrome-extensions/

Check out this post written by Steven Snell.  Great list of Chrome Plug-Ins.

Firefox is the browser of choice for most designers and developers in part because of the vast selection of add ons that are available. While Chrome does not offer anywhere close to as many extensions (yet), there are still a number that can be very handy for designers and developers. In some cases they are not as robust as the Firefox versions (example, Firebug and Firebug Lite), but if you are using Chrome you may be interested to know about the extensions that are available. Additionally, Chrome comes with some developer tools built in.

As you may know, this agency does some political consulting.  However, we also have several divisions of our company and people in our company that do NOT do politics, political consulting, etc.  Occasionally, others in Ozean’s office have become uncomfortable with my political opinions and have asked me to take them down the hall.

That is exactly what I am going to do.

In the next few months, each one of Ozean’s divisions will launch their own website.  The first to launch is the political consulting division.    You may find the Ozean Political Consulting website here.

This means that all Alex Patton’s political comments will be made on the blog on that site:  the Ozean Consulting blog.

This blog will remain, but will be for you to keep updated on all things digital media - like website design, video on the web, SEO, SEM, and social media.

So, if you are interested in politics - read this blog.

If you are interested in media - continue to read this blog.

Happy Reading.