As our About Us page states, OH! Media is a web development company based in Regina, Saskatchewan. Over the last six years, we’ve had many opportunities to work with people that help give Regina it’s own unique, awesome local flavour. Supporting local companies and organizations is very important to us because we also live here and personally benefit from these great people.  Today we’re going to look at some of the web work we’ve done locally.

Queen City Marathon – Every September people from all over North America come to the Queen City to participate in the QCM, which is one of the few Boston Marathon qualifying races in Canada. 2011 was another successful year and we are honoured to sponsor such an amazing event.

Schmirler Curling Classic – Like every Saskatchewanian, we watched Team Amber Holland at the 2011 Scotties Tournament of Hearts and again at the Worlds.  Now we’ve had the honour to work with Amber on this charity event named for one of our greatest curlers, Sandra Schmirler.

Pile o’ Bones Derby Club – It’s a little more rough and tumble than running and curling, but roller derby is just as exciting!  These lively, lovely ladies are amazing to work with and amazing to watch.

CJTR – Local community radio, by Reginians for Reginians.  You can find local flavour here including gems like Regina Vinyl Preservation Society block.  New redesign is in the works!

Regina Family Expo – With dozens of exhibitors, many local, the RFE promotes local business and offers a great event for our wee citizens.

The Comedy Grind – Did you know Regina has its own comedy show?  Come to Amateur Night to try your hand at it, or just come to Gabbo’s for some great weekend laughs.

Regina Newcomer Welcome Centre (coming soon) – We also like to help welcome new residents of Regina.  The Newcomer Welcome Centre provides resources and information to new immigrants and refugees, including help with our infamous winters!

Pulmonary Hypertension Association of Saskatchewan -  As part of our OH! Cares program, we donated our time to design and develop a website that would enable the Association to reach people in Saskatchewan and distribute vital information on this disease.

We’re looking forward to a lot more years of working in our great Regina community!  Remember, Pride Lives Here.

At OH! Media, we use Wordpress as our blogging platform for clients. It’s easy to install for us, easy to use for our clients. It’s a really great app.

No Wordpress install is complete without Akismet, the spam busting plugin. It’s awesome at stopping spam comments – we’ve gone from 4-5 spam comments a day per blog to zero using Akismet.

Recently, while working on a blog for one of our non-profit clients (check out OH! Cares, where we give back to the local community), we discovered that Akismet had apparently gone to a paid model, as we had to select a payment option on the API key signup page.

As the image below shows, we were confused for a while until we realized that the right column actually contained a slider – it wasn’t a static indicator of the plan you had chosen.

If it was just one of us in the office we would have written it off as someone having a case of the Mondays, but multiple people in the office were fooled.

We love you, Akismet!  You provide an awesome service to the web community.  But next time, please just ask for a donation.

We found a website that we just had to share with y’all right before Christmas. Chances are, you know someone who isn’t good with computers has suddenly acquired one, especially in this gift giving season. You might even be the designated tech support for this person.

Google has come up with a lovely website to save you and your confused computer owner!  Teach Parents Tech allows you to quickly fill in a few fields and select from a comprehensive list of tutorial videos to send to your…okay, I’m just going to say it: parents.

I just sent my mom a care package email on how to copy & paste, make text bigger/smaller and make bookmarks.

May your Christmas be filled with happiness, joy, good food and a minimum of tech support!

From your friends at OH! Media

It’s always great to be mentioned in design blogs and showcase websites, but when you are featured in one of the largest, most influential design magazines on the internet, not once, but 3 times in a year, it’s an amazing honor!

Read the articles below!

Web Design Trends 2010: Real-Life Metaphors and CSS3 Adaptation – May 20, 2010

Call to Action – Buttons: Examples and Best Practices – October 13th, 2009

Showcase of Case Studies in Design Portfolios – September 20th, 2009

Thanks Smashing Magazine, we love you!

Last week we were featured in Smashing Magazine for the design of our OH! Media logo. What an honor! We always liked our logo but didn’t expect to be featured on a premier design site for it.

Thank you Smashing Magazine!

Read the article here: The Roadmap To Becoming A Professional Freelance Web Designer

We love the attention we are receiving from the design community. So much so that we thought we’d return the love and link them back. Thanks for the mention guys, keep up the great work!

• 50 Excellent Corporate Website Designs – webdesignerdepot.com
• Line25 Sites of the Week March 20th, 2009
• CSSHeaven.com
• CSSMania.com
• CSSVault.com
• DivineCSS.com
• Daily Inspiration: OH! Media – spoonfeddesign.com
• jQueryStyle.com
• 15+ Photo Slider Examples for Inpiration – Queness.com
• styleprone.com
• Folio Focus
• Showcase Of 50 Stunning Portfolio Website Designs -  spyrestudios.com