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Propeller Wins 6 Awards

Propeller Media Works, LLC has been recognized again for creative web design. Of the three websites submitted to this year’s Horizon Interactive Awards international competition, each has won honors in multiple categories. Awards go to Bromley Ski Resort, Shawnee Peak Ski Resort, and Propeller for their own responsive website. Propeller specializes in custom desktop, responsive, andRead the Full Post

The Fold Is Dead. Scroll With It!

For the past 16 years of web design, I’ve heard countless mentions of this thing called “the fold”. There were studies, and many believe it had magical properties. Anything below the fold would never be seen – doomed forever. So web designers crammed all we could up there and ignored what fell below. It makesRead the Full Post

5 Web Design Trends for 2013

There’s a lot going on out there in the wonderful world of web design, but I see these five trends emerging. ONE. Mobile + Desktop In One: Responsive Design Website Duh right? I know its rhetorical, but in the 16 years that I’ve been doing this, this ranks among the most significant evolutions in webRead the Full Post

Bromley Case Study – Reskin vs Full Redesign is a Fraction of the Cost

We’ve been Bromley Mountain’s interactive partner for over eight years, and this past year Bromley’s marketing director, Michael van Eyck, wanted a website redesign but was fearful of the cost. Our solution was a website reskin instead of a ground-up redesign, where we retain the overall layout of the site, but address color, typography, graphics,Read the Full Post

Shawnee Peak Resort Website Launch – Capturing “The Unique”

Having just returned from visiting Shawnee Peak to celebrate their 75th birthday, I’m reminded just how different every resort really is. Sure they all have grooming, lessons, rentals, retail, food and beverage, and such – but the nuances that give each resort their own character is what we always need to discover and focus on.Read the Full Post

Stowe.com Earns Gold & Best in Category

On our 10th anniversary of partnership with Stowe, we did a major overhaul of Stowe’s desktop and mobile websites. Our work has been well noted and has now won Horizon Interactive Awards. The desktop took Gold for Consumer Information, which is awesome. More awesome is the Mobile Best of Category that beat out all otherRead the Full Post

Propeller’s MediaFeedDeck Introduced for Resorts

We recently launched the MediaFeedDeck for Gunstock Mountain Resort. Formerly named the propGator, the MediaFeedDeck is an application that aggregates media streams from various sources and presents them all on one page of the website. So in addition to content that might come from your own site such as the conditions/trail report, web cams, andRead the Full Post