Web design, web development, marketing and strategy blog by Foraker Design of Boulder, Colorado » Announcements http://blog.foraker.com Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:04:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 We have new digs http://blog.foraker.com/2010/07/we-have-new-digs/ http://blog.foraker.com/2010/07/we-have-new-digs/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:23:05 +0000 Stirling Olson http://blog.foraker.com/?p=1215 Last week we started working from our new office space on the east end of Walnut Street in Boulder, Colorado. Our new space is next to the Boulder Creek Path, surrounded by lots of green trees, and close to lots of restaurants and breweries. Yee haw!

When designing and searching for our space we had the following objectives:

1) Bring our teams together: our previous office was actually three separate offices on the same floor so we had many doors…

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Derek had a great time fielding questions from hosts Tom Chenault and Woody Vincent about how Foraker defies the stereotypes of “here today, gone tomorrow” web firms that all too often create software that,…

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The event…

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We couldn’t have done it without the amazing support we received from local businesses, including Double D’s Sourdough Pizza. Double D’s graciously delivered 4 pizzas and garlic rolls for our event, donated two pizzas as…

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