The Armadillo Studios Blog

The Big Switch From Written Manuals To Video Tutorials | Sep 30, 12:27 PM

Armadillo Studios has always prided ourselves in creating great personal relationships with all our clients. Our philosophy is to view our clients not as customer, but as members of a big warm happy family. One of the techniques we have used to build that type of relationship is to provide a fantastic suite of personalized support with all our products. One of our key elements has been the creation of customized manuals to accompany all our web sites.

When we first started creating these manuals, things were a bit simpler. WordPress was a very standard tool and our client pool was much more manageable. But as our sites have became more complex and our client base has grown, it has become more difficult to provide comprehensive instruction manuals that cover all aspects of our clients products.

So like any good company we have chosen to grow and adapt. Since the beginning of September we’ve taken the bold step towards developing customized video tutorials.

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Topic: Corporate-News || New-Services

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The yyc iPhone Developer Camp | Oct 18, 08:44 PM

This past weekend the Armadillo Team descended on the University of Calgary for the first yyc iPhone Developer Camp. Put on by Michael Sikorsky and his company Robots & Pencils, the iPhone Dev Camp was a 2 day crash summit for the local Calgary iPhone development community. With everyone sharing ideas, information and talent to further each other.

Based on the unconference Bar Camp format that was made popular in San Fransisco, the camp was a loose introduction to the growing iPhone Development community in Calgary. During the weekend established companies from within the city revealed some of their tips and tricks in developing their apps. From presentations on viral marketing, Cocos2D development, and even some intresting rough app demos, the community really came together to showcase and connect with one another. While the afternoons were dedicated to a less formal format, where attendees broke into two groups. The first group organized a series of round tables to discuss various elements of the iPhone development process, while the second group focused on the development of a quick and dirty app for a local organization. (Which or may not be used in the near future)

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Topic: iphone-development || New-Services

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The Cookingwithfire.com Redesign & Recipe E-Books | Aug 4, 01:31 PM

The average lifespan for a web site design is roughly 1.5 to 2 years. Due to which, we have seen a bit of an influx of returning clients looking for touch-ups to their site. One such client was Linda Matthie of
of Cookingwithfire.com.

As one of the original roster of web sites launched during Armadillo’s inaugural year, the first cookingwithfire web site was built as a fairly straight-forward promotional site designed to showcase the company’s line of Mexican inspired cookbooks. It was one of our first web sites built with an integrated corporate newsletter and it was the first e-commerce site we built to use the e-junkie commerce engine.

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Topic: Client-Releases || New-Services

Hootsuite: A Twitter Campaign's Best Friend | Jul 14, 08:13 AM

With hundreds of Twitter applications available at the moment, it’s easy to get lost in the sea of promises. As with any technological movement, many apps are popping up to take advantage of businesses and users trying to promote themselves using Twitter. Unfortunately, a majority of these apps are probably useless for most businesses looking to start a twitter campaign, but a few seem to be invaluable. In our opinion, the one Twitter application that every business needs is Hootsuite.

Built by Vancouver’s own Invoke Media, Hootsuite is widely regarded as an indispensable tool for Twitter Power users. After toying with the application for our own Armadillo Studios Twitter campaigns and for our first two private campaigns, we have to agree with that judgment.

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Topic: twitter-for-businesses || New-Services

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Armadillo Goes Paypal | Jan 26, 10:08 AM

Armadillo Studios is excited to announce that we have now adopted Paypal as a new form of payment for all of our client transactions.

Not that this is a relatively new concept, but in effort to improve our clients bottom line and our own we here are excited to give our clients this avenue of payment. While we will still accept the tradition methods or payment, here are some of the benefits to our clients by using Paypal.

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Topic: New-Services || Trends-in-The-Industry

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