“Is this website design done yet? No not yet. How about now? Nope. Almost there.”

At our website design company in Philadelphia, we design and develop custom sites that are as aesthetically pleasing and user friendly as they are innovative and effective. Currently, one of the website design projects we have been working on for the past few months is on its way to completion. A little tweak here, a little tweak there, and we should be ready to go live with the site on Monday. This site has proven to be yet another great example of seamless integration of graphic web design and programming from the site design and  photo manipulation to flash animation and an admin backend. If the site only integrated our copywriting and video production services, it would have represented a touch from every department. Nonetheless, the site is wonderful and although it has been in development for some time (as a result of constantly enhancing it to make it the best it can be), I’m proud to say that it will launch and be yet another valuable addition to the Web from DDA.

As many have, I have been enjoying the Olympics recently. It is noticeable that each athlete has a fantastic set of muscles, each carved for the specific need of his or her particular specialty. The swimmers have great shoulders, the runners have sculpted calves, the gymnasts have overall tone and fitness. I am by no means an athlete, so it’s not the muscles that I envy. I am jealous of their single-minded concentration to achieve the absolute top of their game. My jealousy is never to the extent of wanting to take away any another’s achievement — but only to want to be capable of this myself. At DDA, I find myself like a puppy trailing after our amazing, top of the line, graphic artists here — Melissa, Judy and of course, Carrie — wanting to learn all they have to give. I am so grateful that they are so smart, helpful and patient. And like Melissa, I hope to sometime to take a few classes to always be able to move forward (when I can manage to fit it into my schedule). So, Thanks Ladies!, for being so amazing at logo design, custom web design, print design, web graphic design, print ad design and every other graphic design service, and for always being there to help and teach me.

This weekend, I was reading an article called Decoding Disease. It was really astonishing to realize the amount of progress that has been made in such a short period of time. It’s amazing to read about the human genome, the total genetic information of a human being and our understanding of DNA “instruction manual” for humans. Using this “map” will allow scientists to understand the differences between a person who inherits a disease and one who does not.

It is not that much different from my understanding of the programming code that makes up a website. Code too, is an “instruction manual” that directs the site’s activities. It is an impressive and awe-inspiring, albeit confusing, cryptogram that only special minds can wrap their brains around. I am no more a programmer than a scientist, but I have enormous respect for these people. I imagine the intelligence just leaking out their ears sometimes.

For instance, last week, I had a problem with a web-page that I was adjusting. The problem persisted through my meager attempts at repair. It didn’t help that the problem lie hidden somewhere in about 400 lines of code. As I was wishing for Amy (our master programmer) to help, she magically appeared at the door, returning from lunch. And in a mere 20 seconds of looking at my page and the code, she produced the answer, and merrily continued on her way. A small feat in her mind, an huge one to mine. Amazing. The level of advanced programming that is evident in every aspect of the custom web design and flash animation and video production at DDA is superior in every way. So it seems that as fast as we are learning how to understand and improve the map of human biology, we are also learning and improving the map of code programming. Moving at the Speed of Life.