Fight Melanoma Today!

For the second year in a row, I have had the pleasure of working with the Arizona Cancer Center Skin Cancer Institute to help them setup their website for their annual Melanoma Walk.

The Skin Cancer Institute at the Arizona Cancer Center is the only skin cancer organization of its kind that unites patient care, research, outreach and education into one coordinated entity. They operate purely on grants and donations from members of the community like you.

The 2012 Walkathon will take place on Saturday, October 20, 2012, from 2pm to 6pm. If you live in the Tucson area and interested in supporting the mission and goals of the Skin Cancer Institute, I encourage you to visit their event website to register and/or learn how you can get involved.

Welcome to Connexins 2012

As we approach the beginning of our third year in business, we are excited more than ever!  In the last 2 years, we experienced tremendous growth and established some amazing strategic partners.  We continue to grow and thrive.  We have been truly blessed.

Although quite busy with our client websites, we decided to take time to give some love to our own website.  If you have not noticed, we created a completely new look and feel.  We are not quite done yet; we are still tweaking the design elements and the code.  The new website design signals new trends that we are excited to share with you today. [Read more…]

Initech acquires Connexins for $4.7M

Breaking News!

Australian-based media mogul Initech is pleased to announce that it finalized acquisition of Tucson-based Connexins Web Development LLC.

“For the last year or so, we have been closely monitoring the three most exciting companies on the web today” said a very excited April Loofar, President and CEO of Initech. “Twitter, Facebook, and Connexins have revolutionized the way we use the internet” Ms. Loofar continued. Based on the reputation, potential for growth, and profitability, Initech opted to acquire Connexins instead of acquiring both Facebook and Twitter.

Dr. Morgan, the previous owner of Connexins Web Development LLC who started the company in 2010, was not available for comments. Eye witnesses at Tucson International Airport report that Dr. Morgan was last seen at luggage check-in. “He was very ecstatic” one traveler mentioned, who also told us that Dr. Morgan was traveling with his lovely girlfriend to Hawaii.

We have a mobile website!

For quite some time now, I have been searching for a platform I liked to build mobile websites.

We are pleased to announce the search is over!

Naturally, we used ourselves as the guinea pigs, i.e. we have a mobile website! Check out the screenshot below (click on it to enlarge). To visit the live version, visit http://connexins.mobi with your mobile device.

A screenshot of the Connexins.mobi mobile website While this platform integrates with WordPress, it will not automatically format the existing WordPress website into a mobile website. The mobile website pages are built from scratch.

We like this for at least 2 great reasons:

1. It’s completely flexible and allows custom cascading style sheet (CSS) code (which, of course, I love).

Why would you care? Because custom CSS allows for custom designs, so I will be able to code the exact look and feel you’re after.

2. Creating mobile pages from scratch challenges us to design a website tailored to the specific needs of a mobile user.

Most people use mobile browsers differently than their computers’. Personally, I am typically looking for different kind of information (and different packaging of the info) on my mobile browser than on my computer. As such, mobile website design and content should be different than desktop websites.

We now offer “mobile websites” as a service to our clients. To learn more, please visit our services page.

Questions or Comments? Or are you interested in building a mobile website? Let me know!

Thank You!

As our company continues to grow, we have a lot to be grateful for this year!

The most important reason we have been successful thus far, of course, is you… yes you, who is reading this blog post! 🙂 We are truly grateful for the amazing experiences and conversations we have had these past few months with our clients, friends, and blog readers! We look forward to continuing to serve you in the months and years ahead.

We hope you have a wonderful and enjoyable Thanksgiving weekend.

Leaving on a jet plane…

Just a quick note: I will be out of the country from Sunday, November 14 to Monday, November 22nd, 2010. However, I will have full access to my email. So if there is anything I can help you with, please do not hesitate to email me and I will get back to you very shortly.

In Remembrance…


On September 15, 2001, over 12,000 people came together on the outfield of Tucson Electric Park to make the human USA flag to honor and remember the innocent lives lost a few days before. Photo by David Sanders. #92853. 9/15/01

Here are a few resources to help you remember, honor, and learn:

Locally in Tucson, Freedom Walk 2010 by Operation Homefront Arizona

The September 11 Digital Archive uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the history of September 11, 2001 and its aftermath. You can browse, research, and contribute!

National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum

Project 2,996 remembers the victims of September 11, 2001.

Let’s never forget!

No More Fans on Facebook!

Starting today, Facebook made a minor change to the terminology associated with Facebook pages created for businesses (which is different than a personal Facebook profile). Facebook changed “Become a Fan” to “Like this”.

For some reason, this is gaining negative publicity (e.g. see this article in PC World and the article and comments in ReadWriteWeb). If you read these comments, it is clear that many people are very outraged by Facebook’s change. Some opponents claim that this change is confusing (since the “Like” feature is already available when someone wants to comment on his/her friends’ posts, comments, or pictures).

Instead of confusing, we think it is more consistent. In fact, in our opinion, this change will work better. Honestly, I never liked that term “Become a Fan”. To me, it always seemed a bit egotistical to ask someone to become a fan of a business.

Do you agree with us? i.e. do you like this change? Or will you boycott Facebook?

Please share your thoughts.

Welcome to the Connexins Blog

Hello there and welcome to our brand new design for the Connexins Web Development website (view the old website).

One of the additions to the new website is this brand new blog!

In this blog, we will regularly post information, articles, and tips to help you enhance your website, increase your website reach, and help you to accomplish your objectives from your website.

Thank you for visiting our blog today, and please stay tuned for some great information coming soon.