What makes a good website?

Good question. You might want to ask yourself that question. What do you look for in a website? That’s the question we have always asked ourselves over the almost quarter century that we have been designing sites. We come from the TV era, so in the beginning we wanted the web to be like TV, or at least emulate it. Well, YouTube capitalized on that one didn’t they? We have since learned that websites are a strange animal of their own that have the power to combine all the fun and amazing media that we have developed over the years. In fact in think the term website is itself antiquated.  These are stories, moments in time, beautiful music, literature, photography, games, trivia, tv shows and news items rolled all into one ball.

What do you know you might ask. Well, not as much as we want to know since theoretically this beast is infinite although we know a lot after building hundreds of them.  Let’s have a little fun here… if you have a minute give me your best answers to the following internet quiz.


Discover the transformation of 48 Ontario Street into the beloved Edison's Inn in Stratford, where Thomas Edison once laid his head. A glimpse into history and modern luxury. Check out the Globe & Mail's front-page feature in the real estate section. Link in bio.

Edison’s Inn Feature

Discover the transformation of 48 Ontario Street into the beloved Edison’s Inn in Stratford, where Thomas Edison once laid his head. A glimpse into history and modern luxury. Check out the Globe & Mail’s front-page feature in the real estate section. Link in bio.

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I fell out

This is really embarrassing.

An amazing short film we saw at Toronto Outdoor Picture Show at Christie Pits.

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Is ‘Singularity’ Here?

Stanley Kubrick consulted I.J. Good on HAL, the benign-turned-malevolent computer in “2001: A Space Odyssey” — an early example of the porous borders between computer science and science fiction.

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