Here is the video of Kevin Menzie, Slice of Lime CEO, speaking on the WordCamp Boulder 2010 panel. Kevin was joined by two great designers, Josh Byers and Kevin Conboy, to discuss all things design and Wordpress. Enjoy!
It was a pleasure to participate in the design panel for Wordcamp Boulder 2010. Slice of Lime’s Kevin Menzie was joined by awesome designers, Josh Byers and Kevin Conboy, to discuss the creative process as it relates to Wordpress development. It was a great discussion with a nice blend of strategic and creative insights as well as technical tips and tricks.
Videos of the panel will soon be up at Wordpress.tv.
Slice of Lime hosted their 10th Boulder Creative Commons last night with the theme “Time-Lapse.” The video above is the group creating our own time-lapse project during the meet up, starting with a blank chalkboard in the Slice of Lime offices.
Eric Baer spoke about his work on BoulderFlatironCam.com and Bruce Wyman (seen below) presented how the Denver Art Museum utilized time-lapse to capture the artists that participated in the current Embrace! exhibit.
More pictures and details on the event can be seen here.
Many thanks to our sponsors, Boulder Digital Arts and GoodBelly, and to everyone that participated to make this meet up a success!
It was an honor to host the first Boulder Wordpress Meetup at the Slice of Lime offices.
The Boulder Wordpress Meetup is for individuals, entrepreneurs and small business owners wanting to learn what, why and how Wordpress is a powerful content publishing platform, marketing tool, social media hub, CMS and complete Website solution.
We look forward to seeing you at the next meet up. You can learn more about the Boulder Wordpress Meetup here.
Thank you to Andrew Hyde for the picture in this post.
Staying inspired and keeping up on new trends is very important for our line of work. We like to call it “inspirado,” and there are lots of sites we visit that do a great job of gathering new trends, ideas, and technologies. One of our new favs is Line 25, who we’ve been following since early March. They recently posted a showcase on horizontal bands, and we were geeked to see a site we designed: everywun.com. It’s pretty cool to discover your own work in a place visit for inspirado.
Check out the article, and let us know of your favorite places to find inspiration!
We’re excited to announce that Slice of Lime has won the Parents’ Choice Award for our work on the Big Green Rabbit website.
Established in 1978, Parents’ Choice Foundation is the nation’s oldest nonprofit consumer guide to quality children’s media. As a Parents’ Choice Award winner, the website is in a very select group. Fewer than 20% of the products submitted to the Parents’ Choice Awards program receive any level of commendation.
The Parents’ Choice Recommended Award gives the website their “thorough recommendation for reasons of production, appeal and fulfillment of its clear intent”.
We’re honored to be in the company of popular kids’ destinations such as Sesame Street and PBS Kids.
Our work on the Big Green Rabbit also received a Webby Official Honoree award earlier this year in two categories. Congratulations to the Slice of Lime team and the continued success of the Big Green Rabbit!
Killer Startups did a nice review of the Tuggl.com website. Strategy and design was executed by Slice of Lime. Congratulations to the Tuggl team!
http://www.killerstartups.com/Search/tuggl-com-local-businesses-that-aim-to-do-good
Slice of Lime seeks a PHP Web Developer with excellent skills in producing high quality work using the latest web technologies.
Slice of Lime is a leading web strategy, design, and development firm located in Boulder, Colorado. We have a great work environment and love to create engaging website solutions for our clients.
We are looking for an individual that meets the following requirements:
• Expertly skilled in PHP and MySQL, CSS,
• Expertly skilled in Javascript and Javascript Libraries (especially jQuery), AJAX, and XML
• Expertly skilled with PHP Frameworks, especially Zend Framework
• Understands browser specific compatibility issues.
• Understands complex database concepts as well as the implications of different database designs.
• Understands the benefits of the various programming languages.
• Works within budget and project schedule.
• Great communication skills with team members and clients
• Assist in writing and estimating technical portions of project proposals.
• Skills in CSS a big plus
• Skilled in Flash Actionscript 2 and 3, FLEX, and AIR another big plus
If you feel like you’re a good fit, we’d love to meet you!
Please send us your hourly rate, annual salary requirement, resume, and work samples.
This Monday, Slice of Lime is hosting another Boulder Creative Commons at our offices. You can expect beer and good grub. We’re also introducing a “Show and Tell” component and have some cool people lined up for that.
You can learn more and RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/bouldercreativecommons/calendar/10876118
We hope to see you there!
Big Green Company, creator of BIG GREEN RABBIT and one of Slice of Lime’s clients, just won 13 Heartland EMMYS last night, winning 4 out of the 5 categories it was nominated in. We’re so very proud of them and honored to have been a part of the website project which also won 2 Official Honoree awards at the Webbys.
Great job, Charlie!
Slice of Lime was awarded 15th Fastest Growing Company in Boulder County at the Mercury 100 Awards last week. We are extremely proud of this recognition, especially because this is the 4th consecutive year that we’ve been on the Mercury 100 list.
We are extremely grateful for the amazing clients we’ve had the opportunity to work with. Thank you for using Slice of Lime as your online strategy, design, and development partner!
Thanks also to the talented Slice of Lime crew for your dedication and great work!
Slice of Lime hosted the 3rd annual TechStars Shuffleboard Smackdown last week. The TechStars teams paired up to compete in this highly rigorous sporting event. We’re pretty sure that we’re the only ones that have used Boulder’s shuffleboard courts in about 30 years.
Thanks to all the TechStars for coming out. Your skills were impressive (including devouring 7 large pizza pies in under 5 minutes).
Slice of Lime has been named to The Boulder County Business Report’s Mercury 100 List for the 4th year in a row. The Mercury 100 event will honor the top 100 fastest-growing private companies in Boulder and Broomfield counties for the past year. Congratulations to the Slice of Lime team and thank you to our wonderful clients!
BOULDER, CO, APRIL 20, 2009 – Colorado’s own, BIG GREEN RABBIT website scored two coveted, ‘Official Honoree’ Webby Awards for its website in the categories of: Best Use of Animation or Motion Graphics and Youth. The Webby’s are to Websites what the Emmy’s are to TV and what the Oscars are to Film. The Big Green Rabbit already received 2 Emmy nominations (Heartland Region) last year.
Created in cooperation with web strategy, design, and development firm, Slice of Lime (Boulder, CO), BigGreenRabbit.com captured the two Webby ‘Official Honoree’ Awards, standing along side media giants Playhouse Disney and the new Sesame Street website and Thomas and Friends.
“Making sure our website was just as engaging and entertaining as our public television show was critical in helping us work towards our vision of improving the health and well-being of children and the planet through entertainment.” said Shane DeRolf, CEO and Chief Creative Officer.
“The Big Green Rabbit website was a pleasure for us to work on. Slice of Lime leveraged our combined skills around cutting edge programming, strategy-based design, and a focus on user testing and reporting to create a project we’re all extremely proud of,” commented Kevin Menzie, CEO of Slice of Lime.
Of the nearly 10,000 entries submitted to the 13th Annual Webby Awards, fewer than 15% were distinguished as an Official Honoree.
BIG GREEN RABBIT takes kids on various adventures designed to help them make better, healthier choices about themselves and their environment. Charlie and Isabelle explore the world through imagination. With a “one-two-three-HOP” they may find themselves in animated worlds including an organic dairy farm with a talking cow, a prehistoric talent show, a tea party in the tropical rainforest and much more. A magic door in Isabelle’s room is a passageway to the real world of nature including a magic garden, an ice skating rink, a typical backyard and more. BIG GREEN RABBIT is available for classroom use and curriculum materials and activities to extend learning beyond the screen accompany each episode.
To learn more about BIG GREEN RABBIT episodes, songs and activities, visit BigGreenRabbit.com or BigGreenParents.com.
About BIG GREEN RABBIT and Big Green Company
BIG GREEN RABBIT is a production of Big Green Company, Inc., in Boulder, Colo. It is presented by Rocky Mountain PBS and distributed by APT. Big Green Company is dedicated to inspiring healthy lifestyles. Big Green Company creates products and programs designed to improve the health and well-being of children and the planet through entertainment.
About Slice of Lime
Slice of Lime is an online strategy, design, and development company located in Boulder, Colorado and has been awarded Fastest Growing Company in Boulder for three consecutive years. Slice of Lime focuses on strategy first and practices results-oriented design for a wide range of clients. To learn more about Slice of Lime visit www.sliceoflime.com.
About Rocky Mountain PBS
Each week, Rocky Mountain PBS invites the 1.6 million people we reach throughout Colorado to experience the world of award-winning local, national and international programming; hear diverse viewpoints; take front row center seats to world-class drama and performances; and enjoy lifelong learning services for children and adults.
Rocky Mountain PBS is celebrating its 53rd anniversary on the air this year. The network began in Denver in 1956 as Colorado’s first public television station. It is now Colorado’s only statewide television network, with stations in Denver (KRMA-TV/DT), Pueblo/Colorado Springs (KTSC-TV/DT), Steamboat Springs (KRMZ-DT), Grand Junction (KRMJ-DT) and Durango (KRMU-DT). To learn more, visit rmpbs.org.
About American Public Television (APT)
With more than 10,000 hours of programming in its library, American Public Television (APT) has been a prime source of programming for the nation’s public television stations for 47 years, distributing more than 300 new program titles per year. In 2006, APT launched Create – the TV channel featuring the best of public television’s lifestyle programming. Known for its leadership in identifying innovative, worthwhile and viewer-friendly programming, APT has established a tradition of providing public television stations with program choices that strengthen and customize their schedules, such as Big Green Rabbit, Sara’s Weeknight Meals, Globe Trekker, Rick Steves’ Europe, America’s Test Kitchen From Cook’s Illustrated, Simply Ming, Doc Martin, Broadway: The Golden Age, Lidia’s Family Table, Rosemary and Thyme, P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home, The Big Comfy Couch, Celine Dion: A New Day, Queen Rock Montreal, Monarchy With David Starkey, Spain…on the road Again, and other prominent documentaries, dramatic series, how-to programs, children’s series and classic movies. For more information about APT’s programs and services, visit APTonline.org.
We are excited to welcome Daniel Feld as a new Partner and COO at Slice of Lime. Daniel joined our team on the first of the year. He currently is focused on streamlining operations, fine tuning our current (and new) services, and Slice of Lime’s sales initiatives.
Daniel has over 18 years experience building and growing service and technology companies. Before joining Slice of Lime, he was an Executive at StillSecure responsible for managing and growing professional services, customer support, OEM relations, and customer retention efforts.
Prior to StillSecure, Daniel served as Director of Operations for Mobius Venture Capital where he was responsible for launching and managing their Colorado-based business incubator which helped successfully launch and support numerous start-up and early stage technology companies.
Before joining Mobius, Daniel founded Intensity Channels, a company that developed and executed channel development and partnership programs for innovative technology companies. Daniel began his career at PGC, Inc., a full-service advertising agency, as an Account Manager working with major packaged goods manufacturers and retail accounts. It’s at PGC that Daniel began his life-long passion for advertising, branding and promotion of products and services. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Emory University.
Welcome aboard, Daniel!
We are pleased to announce that Slice of Lime’s work on Big Green Rabbit was recognized by The Webby Awards in two categories, Youth and Best Animation and Motion Graphics.
The Webby’s are to websites what the Oscars are to Film. Here’s what the Webby Award say about this year’s entries:
With nearly 70 categories, Website entries make up the majority of Webby Awards Winners, Nominees and Honorees. Some are beautiful to look at and interact with. Others are a testament to usability and functionality. And a handful excel across the board. To be selected among the best is an incredible achievement worthy of praise — and perhaps a little bragging.
As a result of the superior quantity and quality of sites entered, the 13th Annual Webby Awards recognized sites and teams that demonstrated a standard of excellence.
Of the nearly 10,000 entries submitted to the 13th Annual Webby Awards, fewer than 15% were distinguished as an Official Honoree. This honor signifies an outstanding caliber of work. Congratulations to all of our Official Honoree selections!
Two of our fellow honorees in the Youth category include Playhouse Disney and the new Sesame Street website, so Big Green Rabbit is in the very best of company and competition.
Congratulations everyone!
Hi there! Richard here, proud to announce the launch of Proof, our in-house web-application that allows us to easily upload and organize information architecture and design comps for our clients.
This has been a need for a long time, and thanks to Jeff for planting the idea, Travis for the design, Lindsay and the rest of the team for valuable input, we got it built. Before this tool, a designer would have to manually create thumbnails, HTML pages, and upload them all to the server which could take a half hour or more. Now our designers can add a whole round worth of comps in just a few minutes.
The client also benefits greatly from this, by having a much cleaner, consistent experience when browsing through their comps. A client can peruse their comps arranged by project and round, and open full-size comp images in multiple tabs, thereby allowing them to compare comps side by side. And since this tool is a user-based system, with built-in authentication, clients can rest assured knowing that their designs are safe from viewing by others.
WordCamp Denver 2009 will be Saturday, February 28, 2009 at the Denver Art Museum. The cost is $20 per person.
Who should attend a WordCamp? Local bloggers, web developers, publishers, designers, internet and marketing enthusiasts, and companies interested in blogging and/or building on WordPress.
Kevin Menzie, Slice of Lime CEO, will be speaking on the Web Design Panel Discussion. We hope to see you there!
Have you been wondering what makes a dynamic website tick? Have you been interested in learning more about producing dynamic content, writing code in a scripting language, or interacting with a database?
Well you’re in luck because one of Slice of Lime’s web developers, Richard Jones, will be giving just such a class at Boulder Digital Arts! It’s designed to introduce dynamic web technologies to those who may know what it is, but have never actually worked with it. Through this course you will gain a foundational understanding of scripting languages and databases in general. You’ll also learn some fundamental programming concepts and techniques which will help you better communicate with developers. With PHP and MySQL you’ll learn to write a basic blogging application in which you’ll see just how information is written to and retrieved from a database, and then displayed on the page. After this course you’ll have a more in depth understanding of dynamic web content, and a foundation upon which to expand your knowledge and skills.
As the instructor, Richard brings not only his 13 months of experience at Slice of Lime, but also his 6 years of web development and college instruction. He will work to ensure that you gain a clear, solid understanding of the subjects we’ll be covering. So take a look at the course description and sign up, as seats will fill fast!
Looking forward to seeing you there!
We are in search of a Flash/Flex/PHP designer who is a programmer at heart. Can you create interfaces that are not just “Flashy” but also functional? Were you using ActionScript to walk through XML trees before you ever heard the word “Flex”? Were you long ago wishing for an Eclipse plug-in for ActionScript so you could break out of the timeline? Then you’re the person we are looking for.
Slice of Lime, a company dedicated to the design, development and strategy of web sites and web applications, is growing. We are looking for someone who not only has excellent Flex and ActionScript experience, but can take on a number of tasks related to web development from setting up a Subversion repository to stepping through JavaScript using Firebug.
Required
Adobe Flex 3, ActionScript 3
Good understanding of OOP practices
Experience using source control (Subversion, SourceSafe, CVS…)
PHP 5
Experience using any MVC framework (Zend preferred)
Experience consuming Web Services with Flash
Desired
Adobe AIR
Agile Methodology
Test-driven development
XHTML, CSS, AJAX, JavaScript and table-less design
No third parties please.
Please reply with relevant samples of your work and salary requirements.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Slice of Lime had a great time sponsoring Podcamp Boulder this past weekend. This was an “un-conference”, meaning that the agenda was completely made up the night before the conference by the very people that would be attending. The picture below shows all of the ideas that were thrown up on the board on what people wanted to learn or teach. Ideas ranged from iPhone apps to video podcasting.
Next we set the lose agenda for the next day, fully acknowledging that things would shift. Jeremy Tanner did an excellent job facilitating the entire event. This picture shows us setting the calendar – 4 events would be going on simultaneously each half hour or hour.
We had the pleasure of attending some neat talks such as Neil Simon’s “How to Create a Wordpress Plug-in” and Michael Sitarwzewski’s startup pitch for yourTuner.com.
We wrapped up the day with an experiment in social collaboration…learning the Thriller dance moves as a team. For better or worse, there was a video camera present and it was uploaded to the web for all of you to enjoy.
We’d highly recommend attending an un-conference if you haven’t. There are some amazing like-minded people to meet, great conversations, and excellent (and more importantly, relevant) sessions.
Slice of Lime is proud to be sponsoring Wordcamp Denver in February.
WordCamp Denver is a conference created for enthusiasts, users, developers, designers, and fans of WordPress in the Denver/Boulder area.
WordCamp Denver 2009 will be Saturday, February 28, 2009 at the Denver Art Museum. The cost is $20 per person.
Who should attend a WordCamp? Local bloggers, web developers, publishers, designers, internet and marketing enthusiasts, and companies interested in blogging and/or building on WordPress.
We’re looking forward to discussing all things Wordpress. Hope to see you there.
Podcamp covers new media creation including text, audio and video. It’s an unconference so the first night (January 23rd) will involve the attendees selecting topics that interest them and Saturday (January 24th) will be panels and presentations on those topics.
You can learn more about the event on Facebook here.
Boulderspace is a site for designers of all disciplines to join together to share information, ideas and concepts, while networking within the design community. Its goals are to expand networks and markets within the local industry, share creative insight, and attract arising designers and industry leaders alike. Check out Slice of Lime’s holiday card on Boulder Space here!
A big thank you to everyone whom joined us for last night’s Creative Commons. This month’s event featured a video chat with John Allsopp all the way from Australia, discussing the upcoming Web Directions North Conference.
Web Directions North, one of the world’s leading conferences for web professionals, returns for 2009 – this year in Denver, Colorado, February 2—7. http://north.webdirections.org
A bit about Web Directions North: Web Directions focuses on the professional development of web designers and developers, interaction designers, user experience professionals and other practitioners in the web arena, whether they work as a contractor, in a design agency, in small or large businesses, in government, education or the not-for-profit sector. Whatever your or your company’s role in building or managing web sites, applications or communities, Web Directions is full of practical, valuable insights, education and inspiration.
Please enjoy the holidays and watch for an announcement for the next Creative Commons event. In the meantime, join the Creative Commons MeetUp group for information on upcoming events, as well as contact with fellow members: http://webdesign.meetup.com/487/
Tuesday night the Slice of Lime office was abuzz with a healthy crowd of interactive pros, newbies, start-ups and students. Thank you all for making it over- we loved catching up on fresh applications and opportunities, as well as demo’ing some of our latest launches. November’s Creative Commons event boasted some of the best conversations we’ve heard yet, and it never ceases to amaze us how much local talent this community holds.
We look forward to seeing you all at next month’s Creative Commons on Wednesday, December 17th. Come join us for a very special video chat with John Allsopp, who will be talking to us about the upcoming Web Directions North Conference, http://north.webdirections.org/program.
In the meantime, join the Creative Commons MeetUp group for information on upcoming events, as well as contact with fellow members: http://webdesign.meetup.com/487/
This week, we had the opportunity to attend the Adobe MAX Conference in San Francisco. We got to check out the city and to “level up” our skills around the various Adobe products that we use every day at Slice of Lime.
The major take away for me was represented in the Adobe Keynote on Monday. They are thinking of the world in 3 overlapping areas:
With this focus, the conference definitely zeroed in on their Rich Internet Application (RIAs) tools, specifically Flash, Flex, and AIR. Slice of Lime has been doing a steadily increasing amount of Flash and Flex work and our purpose for being at the conference was to extend this knowledge even further.
Adobe also offered some new tools, like Flash Catalyst, which offers a “rapid-prototype” approach to to building web applications and allows for a more cohesive workflow between designers and developers. Again, this seems very much aligned with were Slice of Lime is seeing the industry growing – iterative and highly collaborative development.
Lastly, it was great to hear about advances in Flash search engine optimization and the details on how this is accomplished. Finally, dynamic websites in Flash can start to break away from search engine optimization issues.
All in all, the conference was extremely educational and had a great atmosphere of collaboration. There was much less focus on walking “the floor” and much more focus on learning new things and getting inspired for future project work.
You can see some quick video and photos of our trip in the video below:
Just a reminder of our upcoming Creative Commons event on Tuesday, November 18th. In true Thanksgiving spirit, we’re asking everyone to bring canned food items to donate to the needy.
*And don’t forget to join the Creative Commons MeetUp group for information on upcoming events, as well as contact with fellow members: http://webdesign.meetup.com/487/.
Slice of Lime picked up 4 “No Limits” passes for Eldora, the ski resort just up the road from us in Boulder, Colorado. Employees can enjoy these passes at any time and, yes, to all of our beloved clients, you can use them, too!
Here’s to a great ski/snowboard season!
A warm thank you to everyone whom joined us for last night’s 8th Creative Commons event at the Slice of Lime office. We had an enthusiastic showing of diverse Boulder/Denver talent, and some nostalgic surprise connections.
We invite you to bring your ideas and a friend to next month’s Creative Commons event on Tuesday, November 18th. And don’t forget to join the Creative Commons MeetUp group for information on upcoming events, as well as contact with fellow members: http://webdesign.meetup.com/487/
Spacial architecture, interior design, and color play important roles in influencing creativity, inspiration and clear thought processes. Recognizing this, Boulderspace will be capturing architectural and interior design of Boulder’s creative studios over the upcoming months. They’ve kicked off the series by exploring Slice of Lime’s workspace.
Slice of Lime has installed Intense Debate on its blog. According to Intense Debate, this is why they are any blog’s new best friend:
We built IntenseDebate to improve the dialogue within the comment section. You no longer have to try to follow the maze of conversations going on in the comments by means of “@ username” or “@ comment number.” With Intense Debate the comments are threaded, allowing you to reply directly to an individual comment.
Indented replies at different levels make following the various conversations manageable.
Part of our goal to improve the comment conversation is to make it easier to get involved. Reply-By-Email helps minimize the number of steps between you and your debate. With IntenseDebate you can respond to and moderate your comments with ease via email, even if your on the go. Just because you’re away from your computer doesn’t mean the conversation stops.
Importing/Exporting
Look, we know that we’re not your first and we may not be your last comment system, and we’re ok with that. Our comment importers and exporters make bringing your comments with you a piece of cake, so you don’t need to worry about losing a single one.
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Intense Debate is TechStars company, an organization that Slice of Lime sponsors that helps start up companies get off the ground through seed funding and menorship. Intense Debate is our recommended commenting tool for all of our clients and we’ve already installed it on many of their blogs. Check it out and see what you’ve been missing.
Finally.
Slice of Lime originally included mobile applications and websites as one of our offerings when we started the company in 2001. We built a couple of applications that were well received, such as “Mobile Snow”, which delivered the snow report to your cell phone, Palm Pilot, or Pocket PC in the morning. It received the highest possible rating from Palm and the Flash-driven Pocket PC version was featured in a book entitled “Advanced PHP for Flash.”
Alas, we were about 7 years ahead of our time.
Now, we’re excited to include iPhone web optimization as one of our services. To kick off this announcement, we’ve optimized our own site.
Special considerations need to be taken when building an iPhone optimized website. For example, our contact page featured above is more useful with icons that help you reach us. Tapping the “Find Us” icon opens the Google Maps iPhone application, shows you where we are, and give you directions on how to get to us from your current location.
We’re excited to announce this new service and look forward to building more iPhone optimized websites. To learn more, take out your mobile device and call us at 303.413.0701!
If you don’t have an iPhone, but want to see the site in action, you can go to here.
Slice of Lime hosted the 7th Boulder Creative Commons this evening. We had a great time getting to know designers and developers in the area as well as some of the folks from TechStars’ companies.
Andrew Hyde took some great pictures of the event that you can see here.
Thanks to all who attended, especially those new to Boulder. It was awesome meeting you. See you next month!
Slice of Lime created the website for Wish for Wheels, an organization that gives kindergarten kids bikes on graduation day. To fully appreciate what they did and to get involved even more, we took the day off to volunteer at a “give away”.
The kids were amazing and it was extremely rewarding to see the looks on their faces when they realized that the bike was for them to keep. Congrats to the Wish for Wheels staff, University Bicycles, and the Slice of Limers for making this a success!
You can see more pictures from the day on our Flickr page here or on the Wish for Wheels page here.
It always puts smiles on our faces when we see the much deserved attention that Sheri and Rich Schmelzer get for Jibbitz. Slice of Lime built the original Jibbitz website, variations on the Jibbitz website, and has since created the Jibbitz Stylizer, a fun Flash application that allows you to build out your Jibbitz creations to share with friends or purchase. Soon after building the original site, Jibbitz sold to Crocs for $20 million.
The article and video (seen above) highlights their amazing success story. Congratulations Sheri, Rich, and team!
Slice of Lime was named the 17th fastest growing company at the Boulder County Business Report Mercury 100 Awards last Friday. We’re especially proud to receive this award for 3 consecutive years, placing 4th in 2006 and 7th in 2007. Many thanks to our amazing clients and the congratulations to all of the Slice of Limers!
Slice of Lime has been named to The Boulder County Business Report’s Mercury 100 List for the 3rd year in a row. The Mercury 100 event will honor the top 100 fastest-growing private companies in Boulder and Broomfield counties for the past year. Congratulations to the Slice of Lime team and thank you to our wonderful clients.
Thanks to all those who attended who made our 6th Boulder Creative Commons so interesting. We had a good mix of designers and developers at the event who enjoyed microbrews and finger-food over great discussion. We plan to make this a regular monthly event.
It really doesn’t get any better than this in terms of customer feedback. V and Kat host the vkat23 Channel on YouTube and are the self proclaimed “craziest kooko ppl in the world.” They put big smiles on our faces as they talked about the Jibbitz Stylizer and showed off how easy and fun it is to create your own Jibbitz masterpiece – actually, we think they preferred the phrase, “this is so fly.”
The Stylizer is a project that Slice of Lime completed in 2007 and was recently highlighted in the Boulder County Business Report. You can read about our process in creating this section of the site for Jibbitz here.
Thanks V and Kat! We’re honored that you’re enjoying the Stylizer so much that you made it a part of your show. That, dare we say it, is “super-fly”.
The Zenie Bottle project that Slice of Lime recently completed is featured in the Boulder County Business Report in an article titled, Zuzingo bottles media on social networks.
Some of interesting quotes from the article include:
“When it comes to social networks, some can be all about communications, but ours is about expression,” [Paul Berberian] said. “It’s a multimedia collage about your state of mind. It’s a different way to display content.”
“A large part of the success of the site will be people putting the widgets on their Facebook page or their own blogs,” [Kevin] Menzie said. “But from our perspective what was important was to make the site as engaging and beautiful as possible.”
For more information on our work on ZenieBottle.com, you can view our podcast here.
Slice of Lime is sponsoring “breastFEST” again this year. The picture above shows one of Slice of Lime’s web designers, Travis Silverman, next to the eye-catching poster he created for the event. The posters can be seen up and down the Pearl Street Mall today.
breastFEST features music, poetry, and dancing at Trilogy and on March 8th at 9pm. The event supports YES! (Young Empowered Survivors). YES! is a support group for young adults in all stages of cancer diagnosis, treatment and recovery.
It’s an honor to be a part of the event again this year. Last year’s experience was amazing. We’d highly encourage you to check it out Saturday night.
Slice of Lime recently created the Jibbitz Stylizer. The Stylizer is a section of the Jibbitz website that makes it fun for kids to decorate any color Croc with their own set of Jibbitz and send their creation to a friend, print it off, or add it to a shopping cart.
Some notable quotes from the article include:
“The idea was to create a site that is engaging to kids but trustworthy enough for parents to click that buy button,” Menzie said. A shoe doubles as a shopping cart, allowing parents to buy their child’s creation.
“We start off any client with a big strategy session,” Rodanski said. The company analyzes its client’s goals and needs and help the client build a business strategy. Potential clients often bring up Jibbitz when talking with Rodanski.
Slice of Lime, in business for almost eight years, strives to build a sense of teamwork with its clients while building their Web sites, Rodanski said, and the company has carved out a niche working with startup companies.
You can read the full Boulder County Business Report article here.
You can read our own blog posts on the project here.
Slice of Lime is sponsoring Venture Capital in the Rockies (VCIR) for a fourth year this week in Beaver Creek. We were responsible for designing all collateral, promotions, and the website. Slice of Lime’s work on Venture Capital in the Rockies has resulted in incremental attendance records every year.
At Slice of Lime, we take on one or two pro-bono projects every year. Recently, an organization named Wish for Wheels approached us and we couldn’t resist. They are a local non-profit that gives brand new bicycles to underprivileged kindergarten kids on graduation day.
During our kick-off meeting yesterday, they started talking about how rewarding it is to see the expressions on the faces of these kids as they exited graduation and found a parking lot full of brand new bikes! I couldn’t help but think of some 8 millimeter footage my parents took of my first bike. I found the video and posted it here. There’s a special place in our hearts for the memory of our first bicycles which I’m sure many of us share.
We’re excited to get started on this project and also to volunteer on graduation day!
TechStars, an organization that helps 10 companies every summer get their startup idea off the ground, has implemented TopShelf, Slice of Lime’s job listing web application.
The application was a perfect fit as they needed a way for their past companies to list job openings on the TechStars website. Each company created an account on TopShelf and the widget code was entered into WordPress for each company page. Since the widget is a simple bulleted list, it was easy for TechStars to style the job listings to match the look and feel of the rest of the site.
Slice of Lime hosted the 5th Boulder Creative Commons last night. We had about 35 web professionals in attendance and enjoyed great conversation over beer, chips, and cupcakes. Jeff and I also kicked off our first video podcast at the event which will be posted on the blog soon.
Stop by at our next event and check it out. You can learn more about the group here.
Slice of Lime’s job application, TopShelf, rolled out some new features today.
Now, jobs can be set to link to a default TopShelf landing page or a specific URL. This means that when a visitor clicks on a job listed in the TopShelf widget, they will either be taken to TopShelf or a page of your choice. The custom URL is useful for companies that already have job listings on their site, but would like a widget that can be installed on various blogs and websites that points back to their site.
The default landing page is clean and lists your company name, job title, location, description, and application email. If you have more than one job listed, the other jobs will be listed on the right side of the page.
We have plenty of new features planned in the coming weeks and months. Start playing with TopShelf and send us your feedback.
Slice of Lime launched its first internal web-application today, TopShelf. TopShelf makes it easy to manage your job openings and to place a widget with those jobs on any website.
This project is part of an initiative by Slice of Lime to explore Agile Development methodologies. This first iteration of TopShelf took 8 hours and includes a basic set of features. As time goes on, we will incorporate customer feedback and our own list of enhancements into small iterations.
Sign up today and send us your feedback.
Click here to check out The Boulder Creative Commons!
After a nice holiday break, Slice of Lime is resuming hosting the Boulder Creative Commons. This is a great opportunity to meet other designers and developers in the area over wine, beer, and snacks. We hope to see you there! The next one is January 23rd at 5:30.
TechStars fills huge holes in the traditional hi-tech startup model by offering seed funding, advice and mentoring, and connections to 10 young companies every summer. Slice of Lime enjoyed getting to know the 2007 TechStars team this past year and has officially signed on as a sponsor for 2008.
Slice of Lime will be creating the 2008 website for TechStars and will be donating its time to mentor each company on their website strategy and design. We’re looking forward to getting to know the new wave of companies!
Slice of Lime sponsored the 5th annual Culture of Giving Art Awards last night. The event featured inspiring artwork created by Boulder County middle and high school students this year. Each winner shared half of their award money with the non-profit of their choice.
Slice of Lime’s CEO, Kevin Menzie, awarded the 3rd place high school award to Liliana Aguilar from Boulder High School. She shared $250 of her $500 prize with the Family Learning Center.
Congratulations to Liliana and all of the students involved in this event. It was an honor to be involved.
Slice of Lime is excited to welcome Lead Web Developer, Richard Jones, and Web Developer, Chris Brainard, to the team. Both have a strengths in PHP and Object Oriented Programming, putting us in position to take on more web application projects in 2008. Welcome aboard!
Slice of Lime launched the 4th iteration of its website just before Thanksgiving. The site now features an easy way to browse and filter our work using AJAX right from the homepage. It also highlights our blog more than before, which will start to offer articles and videos as time goes on. We transitioned our blog from a Movable Type platform to WordPress, which we’ve been enjoying immensely.
It’s also easier than ever to subscribe to our blog to get our latest news, work, articles, and videos. Just click on the “Subscribe to Our Blog” link in the top right hand corner of every page. A slick drop down let’s you sign up via RSS or email courtesy of FeedBurner.
Enjoy the new site and feel free to leave any comments!
Click here to check outThe Boulder Creative Commons!
After the success of the last Boulder Creative Commons at Slice of Lime, we decided to try to keep it fairly regular. We’ve set it up as a “Meetup” event for those interested in attending. Join us for an evening of discussion and wine/beer with local designers, developers, and web professionals. The next one is October 24th at 5:30.
In an effort to bring the creative community in Boulder/Denver together, Slice of Lime will be hosting the 3rd Boulder Creative Commons. It’s a casual event with beer, wine and good conversation. We hope to see you there!WHEN: Wednesday, September 26th 2007, 5:30-7:00WHERE: Slice of Lime, 1216 Pearl Street, #200, Boulder, CO 80302
Slice of Lime attended the Boulder County Business Report Mercury 100 Awards last week where we were named the 7th Fastest Growing Company in Boulder County (calculated from 2004-2006) with under $2 million in revenues. This is the second year in a row that we received a Mercury 100 Award.
Congratulations to all of the Slice of Limers!
Slice of Lime CEO, Kevin Menzie, is featured in Small Biz Magazine this month.
In an article titled, “It Runs in the Family,” Kevin, his father Charles, and Uncle Joe talk about their experiences as entrepreneurs..
You can read the article here.
The Girls’ Wilderness website, designed and developed by Slice of Lime, is featured on “The Daily Slurp” today. The Daily Slurp is “a daily list of beautiful websites”.
Thanks for the recognition! This was a pro-bono project we did for the Women’s Wilderness Institute in Boulder, Colorado which encourages girls to get outside, learn new things and make great friends.
Slice of Lime is sponsoring “breastFEST” this weekend. The event will be raising money for breast cancer research through Young Empowered Survivors (Y.E.S.) and will feature several bands at Boulder’s Trilogy on March 10th, 9pm.
Slice of Lime created posters and flyers for the street team to plaster around town.
If you’re in town this Saturday, come on by!
We’re extremely excited to announce that Slice of Lime has received an investment from the fine people at The Foundry Group.
The brand new Foundry Group is made up of Brad Feld, Chris Wand, Seth Levine, Jason Mendelson, and Ryan McIntyre – all of whom are coming from Mobius Venture Capital.
Slice of Lime has done numerous projects for Mobius Venture Capital’s portfolio companies. As a result, we have gotten to know the Foundry Group team over the past 6 years. They are an intelligent group of people who have a unique hands-on (or hands-off when appropriate) approach.
Here is a quote from the Foundry Group website:
We view ourselves as activist investors and, in addition to providing the necessary capital, we are committed to leveraging our experience in starting companies, our expertise in the technology industry, and our network of relationships to help great entrepreneurs turn great ideas into great companies.
This investment and partnership is intended to grow Slice of Lime to the next level. We have already added more infrastructure to the team, including an additional designer and developer. We will be fine-tuning our process and business strategy throughout 2007. This translates to even better service to our clients and a continued focus on our “strategy-first” approach and “results-oriented design.”
We’re also welcoming Chris Wand as a board member. You can learn more about Chris here.
Here’s to the continued success of Slice of Lime and our clients!
More news on the investment:
One of Slice of Lime’s clients, Jibbitz, was just featured on Oprah. Their founder, Sheri Schmelzer, headlined the “Million Dollar Moms” episode. This is a great success story. Just a year after Slice of Lime designed the logo and designed and developed the website for Jibbitz, they sold to Crocs for $20 million dollars.
The story quotes:
Then, Sheri launched a website, and after just two weeks, she was overwhelmed with requests for Jibbitz of all shapes and sizes. Retailers caught on and began ordering hundreds at a time.
You can read the full story here.
Congratulations to Sheri, Rich, and family. We’re proud to have been a part of this project.
Slice of Lime has been nominated for the 2007 Spark Awards. Sponsored by The Boulder Chamber, these awards will honor small businesses in the community that have fueled the fires of small business success.
Slice of Lime has moved offices! Don’t worry, we’re still located in the heart of downtown Boulder. Our office is in between Pearl St. and Walnut St. on Broadway. Our updated contact information is as follows:
Slice of Lime
1909 Broadway, Suite 200
Boulder, CO 80302
303.413.0701
The move offers some extra room to grow in 2007 and a new, creative workspace of our own. Stop by and say hello if you’re in town.
Slice of Lime will sponsor the Fifth Annual Contemporary Art Auction for the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA).
The auction will be held on October 19th and is an exciting evening of cocktails, bidding wars and fun. It will feature former Christie’s auctioneer and PBS’ History Detectives host, Elyse Luray. This is a major fundraiser for the museum. We hope to see you there!
Slice of Lime is sponsoring “Moving Mountains with Mary Wilson”, a Women’s Wilderness Institute event.
Mary Wilson is one of our nation’s foremost advocates of women’s leadership. She is president and founder of The White House Project, co-creator of Take Our Daughters to Work Day, former director of the Ms. Foundation, and author of Closing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World.
Wednesday October 11, 2006
Seawell Ballroom, Denver Performing Arts Complex
Tickets: $100
To RSVP, call 303.938.9191 or visit womenswilderness.org/events.html
Slice of Lime is featured in the Summer edition of Easy Chair Magazine.
Slice of Lime weaves “Web” of volunteerism
Slice of Lime is nothing but sweet in the eyes of Boulder nonprofits. While the Web design and development company was recently honored as the Mercury 100’s fourth fastest growing company, owners Kevin Menzie and Jeff Rodanski know that building a business is also about building a community.
“It feels good to give back to organizations that we believe in,” says Kevin. “And it’s reciprocal because we get our brand associated with positive nonprofits.”
Over the past year, he and his staff have designed or upgraded Web sites for various local nonprofits – including the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Venture Capital in the Rockies and the Woman’s Wilderness Institute – free of charge.
“Everyone here is excited about the new Web site that Slice of Lime has designed,” says Greeley Sachs, Director of Development for the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. “They’ve done an excellent job of balancing our need to feature works of art, while making the site more functional.”
Slice of Lime also redesigned the Komen Denver Race for the Cure Web site and email campaign, an event that the company not only sponsors, but participates in as a team.
Kevin’s favorite way of giving back?
“We recently showed Fairview High School students how we design, scanning their artwork into our computers as a demonstration. It was great. We’ve had people help us, and now it’s our turn to be a source of inspiration to others.”
Slice of Lime Partner/Creative Director, Jeff Rodanski, will be featured in the upcoming textbook, “Technical Communication in the 21st Century” published by Prentice Hall. Contributing to the book alongside large corporations like Microsoft and Coca-Cola, Jeff writes on Slice of Lime’s best practices in web design and usability testing.
Slice of Lime’s Founder/CEO, Kevin Menzie, will be speaking on the Boulder Chamber of Commerce’s “Best Businesses” panel on Wednesday June 19th. Kevin will discuss business growth at Slice of Lime, which was recently named the 4th fastest growing company in Boulder County with under $2 million in revenue.
You can learn more about the panel discussion here.
Slice of Lime has been spotlighted as the Boulder County Business Report Mercury 100’s 4th fastest growing company with annual revenues less than $2 million.
Slice of Lime hosted budding artists from Boulder’s Fairview High School by showing them around our offices and introducing them to the world of graphic design.
While student computer-literacy is already light-years ahead of where we were at that age, we were able to take a sketch that a student drew, scan it into our computers, and teach some new applications, tips and tricks.
It was a pleasure meeting the next generation of graphic designers and programmers.
Slice of Lime will sponsor the Komen Denver Race For The Cure this year. The Denver race is the country’s largest and raised over $2.7 million last year to fund local breast cancer programs.
Slice of Lime will redesign the Komen Denver Race For The Cure website and email campaign. We are honored to be a part of such a great organization.
Slice of Lime is sponsoring the 2006 Gear & Cheer, a fundraiser benefitting The Women’s Wilderness Institute. The event will feature a silent auction for outdoor gear, clothing, and vacation packages as well as beer and wine tasting and live music from Wendy Woo. Join us Thursday, April 20th from 6pm-9pm at the Millennium Harvest House in Boulder.
To purchase tickets, call: 303.938.9191 or visit www.womenswilderness.org.
Slice of Lime is volunteering its services to the Boulder-based Woman’s Wilderness Institute to design and develop their new www.GirlsWilderness.org website. The program promotes strengthening the courage, confidence and leadership skills of girls through the challenge and support of wilderness and community-based experiences.
Slice of Lime will create the Girls’ Wilderness logo, design and develop the site, and create a viral marketing campaign to quickly (and inexpensively) spread the word about their summer programs.
Slice of Lime was featured on the front page of the January 2006 issue of the Boulder County Business Report. This article covers Slice of Lime’s use of Ajax, a web coding method that helps optimize the user experience. It highlighted Slice of Lime’s latest in-house application, SALT. SALT is a tracking and analytics web-application that Slice of Lime will be offering its clients this year.
Slice of Lime has moved to their new location at 1035 Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado. This puts the company in the heart of downtown Boulder along the walking mall and near many of our clients. Come by, check out our new space and grab a coffee with us next time you’re in town.
Slice of Lime has been selected by the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA) to redesign their website. Slice of Lime will be volunteering its time to create a brand new user experience for the museum that will leverage some of today’s cutting-edge technologies. Slice of Lime will also be building a custom back-end content management tool for the museum so that they can easily update featured exhibits and performances.
Slice of Lime will sponsor Venture Capital in the Rockies (VCIR) for a second year in February 2006. Slice of Lime will be responsible for designing all collateral, promotions, and the website. Slice of Lime’s work last year on Venture Capital in the Rockies resulted in their highest attendance ever.
Slice of Lime, in cooperation with NewsGator, designs “News Hound”, a branded RSS Reader for the Denver Post. Slice of Lime created the information architecture and the design for the reader, working side by side with the Denver Post’s new media team and NewsGator’s technology team.
