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Thoughts from Drew Parroccini

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Building a style-guide in SCSS

For the past two years, I have been using SCSS to build my websites. Developers everywhere have touched on the many benefits of SASS/SCSS compared to LESS and vanilla CSS in the past, so let’s just skip ahead to doing something cool. With large higher education websites, I was finding that I was rewriting the […]

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What we learned – Responsive Web Design for a University Magazine

Drew discusses the lessons learned from our latest responsive web design project which we did for Carnegie Mellon University magazine.

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How I learned to stop worrying and love the grid

About a year ago, I took the plunge in to grid-based web layouts. For a long time, I felt that grids were too restricting for creative design and limited your choices and direction for development. Oh how wrong I was. The use of the grids is quickly becoming a standard for rapid template generation. Designers […]

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Developers corner – What we’ve learned: Why.Bryant.edu

Recently, we launched a landing page for Bryant University. This site asked the question “Why Bryant University?” and was completed in a tight two week turn around. Seemed like a walk in the park. It was anything but that. Thanks to our amazing design team and our thoughtful and motivated clients, Why Bryant sparks your […]

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Mobile app vs. Responsive website for your .edu site – Your audience

This is part 1 of my 3 part blog post about the best solution to your .edu website. Please stay tuned for the following posts. Now that nearly a quarter of web traffic is coming from mobile devices*, we’ve come to a crossroads over the best solution to a large webpage such as an .edu […]

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Welcome to the Elliance Aha! Blog where we share digital marketing ideas, insights and inspirations for higher education, manufacturing, B2B, B2C and nonprofit brands. We are a Pittsburgh-based digital marketing agency that leverages brand, search, social, mobile and web to bring prosperity to our national and global clients.

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