As web developers and designers in Toronto one of the issues we face with some clients is in the area of display resolutions. There are some misconceptions as to the trends and this is often based upon a client knowing someone or themselves for that matter who has not followed the trend that the vast majority of computer users are moving towards or in fact a business that continue to use monitors that may suit their specific needs.

The truth is you will not satisfy every potential visitor to your website. With browsers and add-ons to browsers the viewing real-estate for a website can be hindered depending upon the specific browser settings and additions that a user has implemented.

What can be reinforced however is that statistically since January 2010 as highlighted in this report from http://www.w3schools.com is that 1024 x 768 pixels or higher is the standard. In fact as the statistics will show, over 70% of computer users use settings that is higher than 1024×768 pixels.

640×480 and 800×600 are pretty much non-existent in usage for general Internet browsing. While monitors may support it; with widescreen monitors continuing to be the norm with 19â€� inch wide screens being considered now the entry level bare minimum; the use of lower resolutions no longer make sense or apply.

With 1024 x 768 pixel resolution holding out at 20% of overall user’s settings for monitor resolution as of January 2010; it is easy to surmise that by January 2011 that number will easily be at 10% or less.

Silentblast Interactive - Toronto Website Design and Development

Canadian owned and operated, Silentblast is a professional web design and development company in Toronto serving small and mid-sized companies in the GTA, Brampton, Vaughan, North York, Markham, Mississauga, Oakville, Richmond Hill, Scarborough and Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Silentblast also develops mobile web site design and development and mobile applications for the iPhone and other mobile phone platforms.

Website – www.silentblast.com

Silentblast Blog - www.silentblast.com/blog

Twitter - http://twitter.com/silentblast

Particepts Medical - Silentblast Interactive Web Design and Development

Hello and welcome back to the Silentblast Blog. Silentblast Interactive continues to perform recent web design and development projects in the Toronto area. Particeps Medical is a recent website design and development launch within our portfolio.

Particeps Medical provides key support medical products to the hospital, EMS (Emergency Medical Systems) and air ambulance services sectors.

Silentblast Interactive was selected by Particeps Medical to provide branding, web design and development of a client area within the website. A very unique project for a unique and exciting industry and service.

Silentblast is proud to have Particeps Medical as one of our established clients and we look forward to the development of their business.

To visit the Particeps Medical website please go to www.particepsmedical.com

Silentblast Interactive - Toronto Website Design and Development

Canadian owned and operated, Silentblast is a professional web design and development company in Toronto serving small and mid-sized companies in the GTA, Brampton, Vaughan, North York, Markham, Mississauga, Oakville, Richmond Hill, Scarborough and Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Silentblast also develops mobile web site design and development and mobile applications for the iPhone and other mobile phone platforms.

Website – www.silentblast.com

Silentblast Blog - www.silentblast.com/blog

Twitter - http://twitter.com/silentblast

Ask A Mortgage Pro - Mississauga Ontario

Hello and welcome back to the Silentblast blog. Recently launched from the Silentblast Interactive team was Ask A Mortgage Pro’s website. This project was an outstanding project to work on with the team at Ask A Mortgage Pro who are located in Mississauga Ontario but are launching a mortgage and financing strategy that will be Canada wide. When Silentblast met with them; there was already a significant investment in a previous website that was not thoroughly designed with the strategy and vision they had hoped to achieve. The business strategy to a degree also had to be refined and with the combined efforts of the Ask A Mortgage Team and Silentblast Interactive the decision to redesign and development the website from the ground up was decided.

The Ask a Mortgage Pro website features several CMS Content Management System modules that allow brokers and agents to register and create a profile for themselves. This CMS facilitates the requirement based on Ask A Mortgage Pro’s vision for coast to coast representation of mortgage professionals on their website. A CMS was also structured that facilitated the addition of Lawyers profiles to the website. Legal partners of Ask A Mortgage Pro can now register and sign into the system and can create a profile for end users; website visitors, to see.

A major grouping of partners are the lenders that are featured on the Ask A Mortgage Pro website. As lenders form strategic partnerships with Ask A Mortgage Pro, they will be added to the system to be displayed on featured profiles.

A News and Events CMS (Content Management System) was also designed and developed for the team at Ask A Mortgage Pro’s and this facilitates them to add mortgage and financial news and headlines that can help those seeking a mortgage or mortgage financing within Canada. Also added within the CMS that facilitates the entry of articles of interest within the mortgage and mortgage financing industry is their Mortgage Blog.

Since launch the team at Ask A Mortgage Pro’s have been adding News and Blog articles to their website and this will help in their SEO (Search Engine Optimization) strategy which Silentblast Interactive has also been commissioned to develop.

To visit the Ask A Mortgage Pro team please go to www.askamortgagepro.com

Silentblast Interactive - Toronto Website Design and Development

Canadian owned and operated, Silentblast is a professional web design and development company in Toronto serving small and mid-sized companies in the GTA, Brampton, Vaughan, North York, Markham, Mississauga, Oakville, Richmond Hill, Scarborough and Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Silentblast also develops mobile web site design and development and mobile applications for the iPhone and other mobile phone platforms.

Website – www.silentblast.com

Silentblast Blog - www.silentblast.com/blog

Twitter - http://twitter.com/silentblast

Silentblast Interactive - Toronto Web Design and Development - Twitter

Hello and welcome back to the Silentblast blog. We have been doing some internal updates on our website, blog and recently Twitter which is an excellent Social Media Networking tool to keep it touch with family, friends and business associates.

We suggest to all our clients to use the social media networks to bring about their brand awareness, news and events and other happenings within their company.

Using Twitter is a good way to send out a quick message to your contact list to visit a particular product or service where there has been recent changes or an update to a blog or a news and events system that is built in to their websites.

To checkout the Silentblast Interactive Twitter feed simply just go to https://twitter.com/silentblast and start following us.

Silentblast Interactive - Toronto Web Design and Development

Canadian owned and operated, Silentblast is a professional web design and development company in Toronto serving small and mid-sized companies in the GTA, Brampton, Vaughan, North York, Markham, Mississauga, Oakville, Richmond Hill, Scarborough and Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Silentblast also develops mobile web site design and development and mobile applications for the iPhone and other mobile phone platforms.

Website – www.silentblast.com

Silentblast Blog - www.silentblast.com/blog

Twitter - http://twitter.com/silentblast

Silentblast Interactive - Toronto Web Design and Development - Revo Marketing Group

Welcome back to the Silentblast Blog; one of our internal media outlets to advise our clients and potential customers of recent web design and development work that is being done by Silentblast Interactive.

Recently Silentblast was commissioned to do the web design, content management systems and branding for Revo Marketing Group.

Revo Marketing Group is a developer of marketing programs, branding and communication services designed to help Real Estate professionals grow their business in an every increasing competitive environment. Revo is dedicated to providing effective marketing tools to only a select number of clients in a market area. This exclusive approach provides limited competition for our member agents.

Silentblast Interactive was with them through the beginning stages of the business development plan right up to the launch of the website. A unique project in that the company, corporate branding, web design, and development of the content management systems were all started from round table discussions between Silentblast Interactive and Revo Marketing Group.

Revo Marketing Group has received very positive feedback on their website design and they absolutely love our content management system that was developed for them which has also a Support Blog that is maintained internally just for the staff of Revo Marketing Group.

To visit the Revo Marketing Group website please go to www.revomarketinggroup.com

Silentblast Interactive - Toronto Web Design and Development

Canadian owned and operated, Silentblast is a professional web design and development company in Toronto serving small and mid-sized companies in the GTA, Brampton, Vaughan, North York, Markham, Mississauga, Oakville, Richmond Hill, Scarborough and Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Silentblast also develops mobile web site design and development and mobile applications for the iPhone and other mobile phone platforms.

Website – www.silentblast.com

Silentblast Blog - www.silentblast.com/blog

Twitter - http://twitter.com/silentblast

Silentblast Interactive - Custom Web Design and Development Toronto - Building Technologies Inc.

Welcome back to the Silentblast Blog. Launched not too long ago the Building Technologies Inc. website.  Silentblast; a Toronto based Web Design and Development company; was chosen to re-design and implement a highly customized one page solution for the Internet and Phone business verticals of Building Technologies Inc. which is located in Ottawa; Ontario.

The challenge was to produce a visually appealing and simple to use system for existing and potential customers to look up their postal codes and see the various packages and the pricing models for Internet and Phone solutions that available in their building. The result was a creative one page site with a backend easy to use Content Management System, (CMS) that allows Building Technologies to easily update and add packages to the system.

Building Technologies Inc. is very pleased with the results thus far and the Silentblast team looks forward to a long business relationship with them. To visit the Building Technologies Inc. website please go to www.buildingtechnologies.com

Silentblast Interactive - Toronto Web Design and Development

Canadian owned and operated, Silentblast is a professional web design and development company in Toronto serving small and mid-sized companies in the GTA, Brampton, Vaughan, North York, Markham, Mississauga, Oakville, Richmond Hill, Scarborough and Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Silentblast also develops mobile web site design and development and mobile applications for the iPhone and other mobile phone platforms.

Website – www.silentblast.com

Silentblast Blog - www.silentblast.com/blog

Twitter - http://twitter.com/silentblast

Canaroma Tile - Custom Web Design Project - Silentblast Interactive

Welcome back to the Silentblast blog. One of the most recent projects that the Silentblast team has finished was the Canaroma Tile website. Canaroma Tile is part of the Canaroma Bath & Tile Company. They are a long term client of Silentblast and it was an easy decision for Canaroma to work with Silentblast; a Toronto based web-design company again.

Their site is focused on the newly expanded business of Tiles. The site features a dynamic photo gallery and Video Gallery content management system, which is easily updated by those who work at Canaroma.

A very unique homepage that features full size images that take up the entire size of any browser resolution was another unique web design feature that has received very good responses from their customers who visit the new site.

This high impact visual concept is breath taking when viewed on large monitors running high resolutions. Canaroma continues to be on top of the market for the business that they focus on. The Silentblast team was also recently invited to a grand opening “awards themed� gala where Canaroma was able to showcase their new product lines and showroom to clients and business partners. The Mayor of Vaughan was also invited to cut the ribbon to officially open the showroom and a cocktail party then followed.

Silentblast is proud to be part of the process by providing web design and development for the wonderful people at Canaroma Tile. To visit their website please go to www.canaromatile.com

Silentblast Interactive - Toronto Website Design and Development

Canadian owned and operated, Silentblast is a professional web design and development company in Toronto serving small and mid-sized companies in the GTA, Brampton, Vaughan, North York, Markham, Mississauga, Oakville, Richmond Hill, Scarborough and Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Silentblast also develops mobile web site design and development and mobile applications for the iPhone and other mobile phone platforms.

Website – www.silentblast.com

Silentblast Blog - www.silentblast.com/blog

Twitter - http://twitter.com/silentblast

Don Carmody Productions - Custom Web Design Project - Silentblast Interactive

Hello and welcome to the Silentblast Blog. It has been some time since we have last updated our blog, which is ironically something we preach to our clients about keeping on top of their blogs and News and Events CMS systems to help them in their SEO efforts. That said, we’re back in our blog and going to discuss some of the projects we have been working on through a series of posts.

One of our more recent exciting projects was Executive Movie Producer Don Carmody’s website. The Silentblast team was very excited in re-designing and developing a web presence for the award winning movie producer who spends a lot of his time in Canada working on movies.

For the older crowd out there; you probably will remember Porky’s. Porky’s is a 1981 comedy film about the escapades of teenagers at the fictional Angel Beach high school in Florida in 1954. It was released in the United States in 1982, and spawned two sequels: Porky’s II: The Next Day (1983) and Porky’s Revenge (1985) and influenced many writers in the teen film genre. It is the highest grossing Canadian-produced film in history.

Don’s Academy Award Winning Chicago. Chicago is a 2002 American musical film adapted from the satirical stage musical Chicago, the film explores the themes of ‘celebrity’, ’scandal’, and ‘corruption’ in Jazz age Chicago.

More recently Don’s production of Polytechnique won 9 Genie awards. “Polytechnique,” a French-language movie that relives a 1989 Montreal college massacre of 14 women by a crazed gunman, dominated the Genies, Canada’s film awards, with nine trophies, including best film.

With Don’s website obviously focusing on his previous film’s and current projects it was imperative that he utilize our Streaming Videos CMS module. This allows Don to update his movie profile’s pages with trailers from movies he has worked on or are in production. Don also required a categorized Photo Gallery CMS, which allows him to add photos of previous film shoots and current projects he is working on.

To visit Don Carmody’s website please go to www.doncarmody.com

Silentblast Interactive - Toronto Web Design and Development

Canadian owned and operated, Silentblast is a professional web design and development company in Toronto serving small and mid-sized companies in the GTA, Brampton, Vaughan, North York, Markham, Mississauga, Oakville, Richmond Hill, Scarborough and Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Silentblast also develops mobile web site design and development and mobile applications for the iPhone and other mobile phone platforms.

Website – www.silentblast.com

Silentblast Blog - www.silentblast.com/blog

Twitter - http://twitter.com/silentblast

Patrick Ogilvie CPP, PSP presents Antonio of Silentblast an Appreciation Award

On October 15th, 2009; the ASIS Toronto Chapter recognized Silentblast during the ASIS Toronto Chapter Annual Law Enforcement and Security Practitioner Awards Dinner at the Panemonte Centre. The award is the same as awards given to ASIS Toronto Chapter Sponsors who contribute both financially to the Chapter and with members who volunteer towards ASIS Toronto Chapter programs and initiatives.

Silentblast; the website design and development firm for the ASIS Toronto Chapter was given the award in recognition of the superlative efforts put forth since 2008 on the Chapter’s website. The ASIS Toronto website has changed in many ways how both the visiting public and its members and guests view ASIS International, ASIS Toronto Chapter and the security industry and profession as a whole. Compliments for the website have come from many including ASIS International members from other countries.

Presenting the ASIS Toronto Chapter Appreciation Award to Antonio of Silentblast is Patrick Ogilvie CPP, PSP; Chair of the ASIS Toronto Chapter.

Silentblast Interactive - Toronto Website Design and Development

Canadian owned and operated, Silentblast is a professional web design and development company in Toronto serving small and mid-sized companies in the GTA, Brampton, Vaughan, North York, Markham, Mississauga, Oakville, Richmond Hill, Scarborough and Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Silentblast also develops mobile web site design and development and mobile applications for the iPhone and other mobile phone platforms.

Website – www.silentblast.com

Silentblast Blog - www.silentblast.com/blog

Twitter - http://twitter.com/silentblast

Greenstream Environmental Inc - Custom Web Design and Development - Silentblast Interactive

Silentblast is pleased to announce the launch of GreenStream Environmental website.

You can visit their website at

http://greenstreamenvironmental.ca/

GreenStream Environmental Inc. provides Emergency Service 24/7/36 for Residential, Commercial and Industrial clients. Silentblast was selected to produce a logo design and also design and develop the website. The site features an integrated WordPress blog engine to keep content up to date.

Silentblast Interactive - Toronto Website Design and Development

Canadian owned and operated, Silentblast is a professional web design and development company in Toronto serving small and mid-sized companies in the GTA, Brampton, Vaughan, North York, Markham, Mississauga, Oakville, Richmond Hill, Scarborough and Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Silentblast also develops mobile web site design and development and mobile applications for the iPhone and other mobile phone platforms.

Website – www.silentblast.com

Silentblast Blog - www.silentblast.com/blog

Twitter - http://twitter.com/silentblast