May 05 LightSpeed Designs Rebrands as Level Design

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LIGHTSPEED DESIGNS REBRANDS AS LEVEL DESIGN

Growing company rebrands to better reflect its services and approach to business

PORTLAND, OR – May 7, 2012: LightSpeed Designs, a Portland-based integrated marketing firm embarks on a corporate re-branding. LightSpeed Designs announces it is rebranding as Level Design. Level Design offers marketing services including web design, print design, public relations and marketing services. The company offers a variety of marketing services but specializes in Joomla!^® web development and training. Joomla is the leader in open source content management systems and won CMS of the year in 2011.

Level Design started as LightSpeed Designs in 2002 originally offering electroluminescent lighting and vinyl decals. After a few years the company evolved into offering customers something completely different; web design, graphic design and marketing services. The company started as a small part time side business until 2010 when the owners agreed to take the business full time.

Recently, the owners, Marion and Byron Olsen, realized their brand did not represent what they truly offered nor what the company had evolved into. The new brand reflects the company's approach to business and the services they offer. "LightSpeed Designs implies we produce work ridiculously quick and without thought or strategy. In reality, our approach is entirely different. We are incredibly precise and thorough regarding the work we produce. Quality work requires planning, thought and pixel perfect precision", said Byron Olsen, LEVEL design's Owner and Technology Director. "We take our customers' work seriously and the new name clearly defines what we offer while also defining how we do business. We not only take our customers' business to the next level, we also do it "on the level" with honesty and integrity".

About Level Design - Based in Portland, Oregon, Level Design is an integrated marketing company offering web design and development, graphic design and marketing services.

Apr 01 Award-winning Joomla web site featured by Apple in the new iPad campaign

Written by Victor Drover.

At the 2011 Joomla! Open Source Creative and Artistic Recognition Awards or J!OSCARS, the Guggeneheim Art Museum received a well-deserved nod for best non-profit web site.

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credit: apple.com

It was thus no surprise when Apple included guggenheim.org in its refreshed campaign to showcase the features of the new iPad.

As you can see here and on the Apple web site, the Guggenheim web site is displayed on the iPad in the 4G LTE section.

You certainly don't need 4G speed to view a Joomla web site, but Apple is correct — The Guggenheim looks great, and loads fast on the iPad, and indeed on all devices.

Perhaps more importantly, anything can happen once you win a J!OSCAR, and you can't win if you are not nominated!

The J!OSCARS are given annually at the J and Beyond conference and nominations can be made directly on the J and Beyond web site.

Nominations close on April 27.

source: joomla.org

Nov 21 JOOMLA WINS THE PACKT OPEN SOURCE CMS AWARD

Written by joomla.org.

Joomla has won the Packt Publishing award for the top open source CMS.

Now in its sixth year, many consider the Packt Open Source Award as a top honor for an open source project. Joomla won the award based on a combination of public voting and input by a panel of judges consisting of open source luminaries.

Julian Copes of Packt Publishing said:

Although around since 2005, Joomla really reinvented itself this year with the introduction of Joomla 1.6 and 1.7, the first product releases for the CMS since 2008. Furthermore, Joomla realized dramatic growth this year as evidenced by its number of downloads and documented government sites powered by Joomla. We are proud to honor Joomla with its third Packt Open Source Award since we launched it six years ago.

Joomla previously won the same award, the Packt Open Source CMS Award, in 2006 and also won the Packt Best PHP Open Source CMS Award 2007. Some of the milestones the open source CMS reached this year that contributed to it winning the Packt award include:

Joomla surpassed 26 million downloads. Although it launched in 2005, this number is only from 2007 to the present since that is when Joomla began documenting downloads.
It documented more than 2,900 government sites worldwide powered by Joomla. These include the U.S. Central Command, U.K. Ministry of Defense and many more.
Info-Tech Research recently confirmed Joomla powers more than 1.5 million websites. These include Citibank, eBay, General Electric and many more.

Ryan Ozimek, president of Open Source Matters, the not-for-profit created to provide organizational, legal and financial support to the Joomla project, said:

Joomla's documented growth over the past year is a bi-product of our broad, diverse community spanning hundreds of thousands of people around the world. The people and open source experts have spoken with this award and we are honored that they have acknowledged what all of these people in our community passionately believe — Joomla is the absolutely best platform to power websites, Intranets and blogs.

source: joomla.org