The Armadillo Studios Blog

The Redesign of Mike's Bloggity Blog | May 10, 12:01 PM

It’s with great pleasure that we get to announce our latest project, the redesign of Mike’s Bloggity Blog.

For those unfamiliar with this popular site, Mike’s Bloggity Blog is one of Canada’s most visited entertainment blogs. Consecutively rated as the best entertainment blog in Canada for the past three years, Mike is a witty and persistent blogger with over two and half thousands post of valuable entertainment goodness.

He covers all aspects of the Canadian Entertainment realm, from the latest news on CBC’s smash hit Being Erica to the latest in Canadian Films to the Junos. Mike’s Bloggity Blog is slowly becoming the go to place for everything related to the Canadian Entertainment industry.

Mike approached us earlier this year with a goal to take his Blogger hosted site to the next level. He wanted to roll out a unique and professional design, but to also keep the lighthearted aesthetic of the original site.

So, we set about designing a new layout which would push Mike’s Bloggity Blog to the next step. We created a new colour scheme which also leveraged a bright new header, but also incorporated Mike’s trademark Wordle logo. We upgraded the sidebar to make it easier for users to connect with Mike’s Bloggity Blog through other social media networks like Twitter, Google Friends, TweetMeme and his own YouTube Channel.

We also equipped Mike’s Bloggity Blog with a fabulous new fat footer, which enhances the user experience by allowing for easier navigation and allowing users to discover some of Mike’s other writing gigs.

The biggest challenge for this project was the transition from Blogger to a self-hosted WordPress web site. But after some data wrangling, an unexpected downtime with a web hosting provider and some very useful WordPress plug-ins; we were able to transition all 2,500 posts from the original Mike’s Bloggity Blog to the new site, without any damage to the existing Search Engine results.

So with that we are happy to announce the new redesign for Mike and wish him all the best in his quest to conquer the Canadian Entertainment Industry!

Topic: Client-Releases || Corporate-Events

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Armadillo + SXSW '09 + National New Media Day | Sep 23, 06:34 PM

Armadillo Studios is proud to announce that we will be participating in two very important Industry events in the 08-09 calendar.

First and foremost, Armadillo Studios is heading back to Austin for SXSW Interactive 2009. This will be our second straight SXSW and third overall. We’re looking forward to seeing some old friends and getting involved in the international Interactive Community.

Secondly, we will be attending the Calgary Events for National Media Digital Day this Thursday. This includes a meet and greet hosted by Digital Alberta and also the 10th Edition of DemoCamp. It should be a great evening and hopefully it brings some much need exposure to our growing local industry.

So if you happen to be in Austin in March of next year or better yet happen to be at Melrose this Thursday, pop by and say hello. We’ll be glad to see have a chat.

Topic: Corporate-Events || Southern-Alberta

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The Weekend To End Breast Cancer '08 | Aug 19, 11:27 AM

On July 26th-27th, Armadillo Studios was proud to sponsor Caitlin Currie’s participation in the 2008 Weekend To End Cancer. Caitlin has become an integral part in the growth of Armadillo Studios, so that it was nice to show our support of her passion and commitment.

In addition to supporting her fundraising efforts, we also put together a series of brochures and vector images for Caitlin and Krystal Readwin’s participation in the walk.

We congratulate Caitlin and Krystal on their walk and look forward to cheering them on in 2009.

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Thank You! | Feb 6, 08:41 PM

It’s been a little over two weeks since we celebrated our one year anniversary at the Art Gallery of Calgary, and we would like to finally thank everyone who came out.

It was a wonderful evening and a pleasure to share such an achievement with all of you.

We hope you all enjoyed the festivities. The wine, the steamwhistle beer, the Jonessoda and food were fabulous.

We thank all of our friends, family and clients for their support over the year and we look forward to an exciting 2008.

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One Year Anniversary | Jan 22, 09:53 PM

That’s right! Armadillo Studios is officially one year old!

And on Wednesday, we are celebrating this achievement with a little appreciation night at the Art Gallery of Calgary.

We’ve got our friends at Steam Whistle to supply the beverages. Darryl Bennett and Chef for Hire will be providing some divine appetizers. Heck, we’ve even gone out and picked up a few cases of lovely Jones Soda for all of our friends who are just children at heart.

Plus we’ve even cooked up a small little surprise that you’ve probably never seen before.

All of this just to thank you – the clients and people who have supported Armadillo Studios over the past year.

If for some reason you haven’t received an invite and would love to come. (BTW that’s probably our fault as we probably didn’t update our email addresses) Just send us an email at info@armadillostudios.ca and we’ll add you to the guest list.

Topic: Corporate-Events || Corporate-News

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