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Why Small Is Good

We relaunched our website earlier this year after rebranding Avatar New York. In the process, we had some fun and learned a few things about ourselves and our company, we know will translate into ever better work for our clients. Here are a few highlights.

Know Thyself
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Avatar New York Wins Big at the 20th Annual Communicator Web Design Awards

The Communicator Awards is the leading international awards program recognizing big ideas in marketing and communications. For the 20th Annual Communicator Awards we entered eight of our Avatar New York website designs, all of which won either a Website Award of Excellence... keep reading about Avatar New York Wins Big at the 20th Annual Communicator Web Design Awards

Avatar New York Web Design Wins Webby Honorable Mention

The Webby Awards Logo

Mohawk Fine Papers is one of our most distinguished clients. We have worked together with for over six years, most recently, integrating several website properties all into a single web platform. The current website serves both their B2B and B2C customers. It was much to our pleasure to hear that Mohawk's... keep reading about Avatar New York Web Design Wins Webby Honorable Mention

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Universal Analytics Upgrade

Last week, Google brought it's updated analytics platform, Universal Analytics, out of beta. Our web developers have been testing Universal Analytics since it's introduction back in March 2013, but a few missing features prevented us from adopting it universally. That all changed last week when google took... keep reading about Upgrade to Universal Analytics now!

The 5 Keys to Successfully Launching a Music Education Website

In mid February, Avatar New York launched MusicFirst, the first part of a larger multi-year project to build a Learning Management System (LMS) that seamlessly integrates music technology into classrooms worldwide. Avatar New York designed and built the project in sevearl phases, each timed... keep reading about The 5 Keys to Successfully Launching a Music Education Website

Winning in 2014

We started out 2014 winning two Interactive Media Awards for websites we built in the recent past.

The first award went to Sonnier & Castle, a New York fine catering company. S&C won "Best In Class" in the Food &... keep reading about Winning in 2014

4 Simple UX Best Practices for Scrolling Websites

The web's continued move to become a more beautiful and engaging place has been bolstered by big, immersive, scrolling pages on desktop version websites. Part of this trend includes adapting and rightfully discarding some website design conventions. However, there remain a few simple UX best practices that can continue to... keep reading about 4 Simple UX Best Practices for Scrolling Websites

Happy New Years from The Webbys

Contemplating how to use the sticker tatts included in a "Happy New Year" card from The Webby Awards.

webby tattoos

 The message in the card read, "No Regrets". I hope not. keep reading about Happy New Years from The Webbys

5 Steps We Took to Improve Jouer Cosmetics Online

To kickoff the New Year, Jouer Cosmetic launched a new ecommerce website - jouercosmetics.com. Avatar New York has been working with Jouer for several months building their new website as well as restructuring their back office process and integrating a seamless ordering and fulfillment workflow that requires as... keep reading about 5 Steps We Took to Improve Jouer Cosmetics Online

Happy Holidays

We had a great award winning year this year. Thanks to our amazing clients and fantastic team of Project Managers, Designers, Web Developers, and UX experts on building some amazing websites.  As a... keep reading about Happy Holidays

Bowling into 2014

 Avatar Holiday Party 2013

We’ve had a great, award winning year working on some exciting new projects and working with great clients.  All that hard work has paid off and... keep reading about Bowling into 2014

Building great websites is its own reward. But we like awards too.

Avatar New York takes great pride in the websites we design. Our team's diligence and professionalism ensures our websites achieve the highest standard in user experience, ease of use and performance. Rewards we enjoy the most are enthusiastic accolades from happy clients and the knowledge that... keep reading about Building great websites is its own reward. But we like awards too.

5 Steps We Took to Survive Black Friday and Cyber Monday with Zero Downtime

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are the two biggest online shopping days of the year.  They are also the most highly anticipated days for our hosting team, as we generally see triple and sometimes quadruple the traffic levels compared to... keep reading about 5 Steps We Took to Survive Black Friday and Cyber Monday with Zero Downtime

Jimmy Jazz and Avatar's web design collaboration pays off

Jimmy Jazz, a top retailer of urban wear, has been a client of Avatar since 2008. We built their first ecommerce site and have worked with them ongoing providing website design and development, high-traffic, PCI compliant hosting, and tech support.

Jimmy Jazz Image... keep reading about Jimmy Jazz and Avatar's web design collaboration pays off

The Workshop is Open for Business

The Workshop

There are big things brewing over at Avatar these days.  One of the projects we have been developing this fall, was The Workshop.... keep reading about The Workshop is Open for Business