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Open Loop New York Wins 'Outstanding Achievement' at the 2014 Interactive Media Awards

Open Loop New York is a new touristic bus company operating in New York City. We built and launched Open Loop's website on a high performace, cloudbased hosting platform when their service opened in 2014. Open Loop offers first class touristic bus services... keep reading about Open Loop New York Wins 'Outstanding Achievement' at the 2014 Interactive Media Awards

Avatar New York Reveals the Success of Mobile Sites on Black Friday and Cyber Monday

New York, NY—Avatar New York, an agency specializing in web design in New York, discusses why mobile sites profited the most on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and the importance of responsive design in relation to online retail.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday have always been true tests... keep reading about Avatar New York Reveals the Success of Mobile Sites on Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Sonnier & Castle Sets Up Shop and Goes Responsive

Sonnier & Castle Shopping Website

Over the past few months, Avatar New York has been working with Sonnier & Castle, one of New York City's premier catering companies, to design a responsive website and ecommerce shop. The new responsive website and shop will serve as the main online platform... keep reading about Sonnier & Castle Sets Up Shop and Goes Responsive

Maslansky + Partners Wins 'Best In Class' at the 2014 Interactive Media Awards

Interactive Media 2014 Best In Class

Maslansky.com, a website we designed for Maslansky + Partners, a market research and communication company, won 'Best In Class' in the Consulting category at the 2014 Interactive Media Awards - the IMAs highest honor. Congratulations to Maslansky + Partners and their accomplishments crafting language strategies for... keep reading about Maslansky + Partners Wins 'Best In Class' at the 2014 Interactive Media Awards

Avatar New York Launches New Educational Fitness Website

Education Fitness Case Study

Over the summer of this year, we overhauled an educational fitness website. The project focused on improving and extending fitness education tools to kids in two ways.

Education Fitness App Homepage

Fitness Education... keep reading about Avatar New York Launches New Educational Fitness Website

Maslansky + Partners Wins 'Gold' in 10th Annual Davey Awards

Maslansky.com, a website we built for Maslansky + Partners, a market research and communication company, won a 'Gold' medal in the Corporate Communications category at the 10th Annual Davey Awards. Congratulations to Maslansky + Partners and their accomplishments developing language strategies for major organizations worldwide as well as to... keep reading about Maslansky + Partners Wins 'Gold' in 10th Annual Davey Awards

Music Education Website Design Wins 'Gold' at 9th Annual W3 Awards

education website design award

A SaaS-based Learning Management System (LMS) for music educators and student built by our award-winning eduction website design and development team won 'Gold' in Education at the 9th Annual W3 Awards. This award recognizes our accomplishments in providing students and educators a ground breaking, music-focused... keep reading about Music Education Website Design Wins 'Gold' at 9th Annual W3 Awards

We’re Ready for Fashion Week in New York

fashion week web design

Fashion week is here! Our New York web design and development team is working with our fashion clients to blend the latest in visual and technological trends, creating unique visual experiences for demanding customers. Check out our Beauty & Fashion Website Design landing page for client highlights... keep reading about We’re Ready for Fashion Week in New York

Bringing EdTech Online One Website at a Time

new education company design

This spring and summer we had the exciting opportunity to work with Channel One News rebuilding their news broadcast platform, watched daily by millions of school children nation wide. The rebuild was part of a multiple part project to bring their news product and associated educational... keep reading about Bringing EdTech Online One Website at a Time

Google now gives your website kudos for using HTTPS

Google uses HTTPS ranking signal

It's official, Google has announced that they are now using HTTPS (or HTTP over TLS) as a ranking signal. This means google will be checking if it can access your website over HTTPS and give you a higher ranking than if your website was unavailable over HTTPS (although they state... keep reading about Google now gives your website kudos for using HTTPS

Avatar New York Runs the Gambit at the 12th Annual Horizon Interactive Awards

The Horizon Interactive Awards is a renowned international competition recognizing outstanding achievement in interactive media. For the 12th Annual Horizon Interactive Awards, we entered eight of our Avatar New York website designs, each of which won either a Gold, Silver, or Bronze Award.

We launched an... keep reading about Avatar New York Runs the Gambit at the 12th Annual Horizon Interactive Awards

Avatar New York let's NYC Tourists Locate Buses in Real-Time

OpentourNY.com responsive website image

As a followup to the recent launch of OpenTourNY.com, the responsive website designed for New York City's premier sightseeing bus tour company, Avatar New York added real-time bus location capabilities. With the addition of this functionality... keep reading about Avatar New York let's NYC Tourists Locate Buses in Real-Time

Avatar Uses ZenDesk and StatusPage to Provide Better Transparency

Avatar rolls out ZenDesk and StatusPage.io Support

Avatar is very excited to announce the roll-out of two additional components to our cloud hosting services. We've incorporated ZenDesk and StatusPage.io to our cloud hosting offering as part of our ongoing effort to provide our clients top notch support and effective transparency.

ZenDesk

ZenDesk extends the methods... keep reading about Avatar Uses ZenDesk and StatusPage to Provide Better Transparency

Avatar New York is 'Best In Class' at Interactive Media Awards

Interactive Media Award Logo

The Interactive Media Awards recognize the highest standards of excellence in website design and development. For the first round of awards in 2014, we entered four of our Avatar New York website designs, all of which won the highest possible '... keep reading about Avatar New York is 'Best In Class' at Interactive Media Awards

Simple Tools to Create Engaging Content

Creative Engaging Websites

Creating high-quality, consistently branded content requires time, ideas, and plenty of people power. During our most recent company rebrand and website redesign we devised some simple and efficient ways to create our own content, and, in the process, both... keep reading about Simple Tools to Create Engaging Content