Blue Fountain Media proudly announces the launches (and re-launches) of three terrific websites: Race Fans TV, West Nose Guide and Magic Carpet Day Camp!

RaceFansTV.com Race Fans TV Developed multi-channel, motorsport video stream to serve a global network of racing fans 24/7 Increased social media activity through user forums and comprehensive racing wiki that accomodates a passionate racing community Implemented seamless backend system for simple management of a massive content archive RaceFansTV delivers a vast archive of motorsport racing video to the general public. View thousands of hours of archived footage in a simple and convenient video stream format. Read the rest of this entry »

You’ve heard of Twitter. Maybe you’ve even thought about using it for your business. But where to begin? Here are the five key steps to getting started. Read the rest of this entry »

While users have long pointed out the need for a “dislike” button, Gary Coleman’s untimely death comes as the first celebrity passing since Facebook’s release of the “like” button to the greater internet (i.e. not directly on Facebook). The awkwardness of having a “like” button on an obituary is obvious. Users don’t appear to be too concerned with the unfortunate “like” button, but that may change in the future as more and more negative news headlines get paired up with “like” buttons. Plane crashes and terrorist attacks come to mind.

One solution that sites can implement immediately is to add a setting to their content management system (CMS) to allow editors to remove the “like” button.

Five American Web Designs Awards are just the latest accolades for Blue Fountain Media

Blue Fountain Media has been earning a host of honors in recent months, including this week’s announcement that the company had won five American Web Design Awards.

Since March, Blue Fountain Media has also been honored by the Interactive Media Awards and the Small Business Commerce Association’s Best of Business Awards.

The awards cover a wide range of categories, including overall excellence, consumer goods, financial websites, website and graphic design and newsletters and promotions.

“I am humbled by the recognition our company has received for the work we’ve done for our clients,” said Blue Fountain Media CEO Gabriel Shaoolian. “These are some of the most prestigious organizations in our industry and it means a great deal to me and my team at Blue Fountain Media that we are getting national and international attention.”

While he is thrilled with the awards, Shaoolian does not want the recognition to take away from the essence of what Blue Fountain Media is all about.

“Don’t get me wrong, awards are great,” he said. “But awards don’t mean anything if the award-winning websites aren’t sites that our clients’ businesses grow and prosper.

“Blue Fountain Media provides results-driven solutions. Beautifully designed websites are great, but  it’s more important that the websites produce the desired economic and branding results for our clients. We are far prouder of producing sites that deliver a great ROI to our clients than sites that deliver awards.”

Just this week, Blue Fountain Media was announced as the winner of five American Web Design Awards.

The American Web Design Awards went to sites created for Smarties candies (general excellence), La Grenouille restaurant (general excellence), Broadway Nails (general excellence), Liquid Trading (financial) and for Blue Fountain Media’s monthly newsletter (a winner in the newsletter and promotions category).

The awards are presented by Graphic Design USA, “The news magazine for creative professionals.” According to Graphic Design USA, “The American Web Design Awards —celebrates the power of a well-designed site to attract audiences, communicate information, generate engagement and response, and market products and services. The emphasis, in light of our expertise, is on visual design and aesthetics.”

“Obviously, I am extremely proud of the work performed by our design team on all of these projects,” Shaoolian said. “It is a great honor to have been recognized by a publication as prestigious as Graphic Design USA.”

Just one month earlier, Blue Fountain Media won the “Outstanding Website (Consumer Goods)” from the Interactive Media Awards for the Smarties website.  In March, Blue Fountain Media won the Small Business Commerce Association’s “Best of Business Award in Website and Graphic Design.”

Below, see our other four award winners:

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There are literally hundreds of Content Management Systems out there. Some are designed for blogging, others for maintaining e-commerce sites. We believe that our WebModulite Content Management System (CMS) is second to none. Here are the top five reasons: Read the rest of this entry »

This week’s App Tuesday award is being split between two cool new websites that exemplify the future of location-aware applications: Assisted Serendipity and The Hotlist.

Assisted Serendipity

Get alerts about the male/female ratio at your favorite hangouts

AssistedSerendipity.com lets users set up alerts for when the male/female ratio at favorite Foursquare venues reach a favorable level. Critics might point out that the site’s singular feature is cheesy or more of a novelty than genuinely useful tool. But one must look beyond this early, starter-feature. What makes Assisted Serendipity a significant development is what it could (and probably will) do in the near future.

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As Blue Fountain Media continues to win awards for making results-driven website designs, our CEO Gabriel Shaoolian has become in high demand as a public speaker. He’s offered his insight as a featured speaker at the Business Design Institute, lecturing at Paper NYC’s classes, and with the NY Entrepreneurs Business Network.  Most recently Gabe was invited to Madison Square Garden as a featured panelist during the Greater New York Chamber of Commerce’s annual Business Expo, where he spoke how social media can make an impact for both established brands and small businesses.

“If you’re not active in social media, and someone will Google your name, chances are whoever wrote something bad about you will come up (instead of you)”, Gabriel Shaoolian told attendees of the New York Business Expo. Their panel discussed variety of issues, especially online business strategy, goal setting and measuring the results of online marketing campaigns.

Participants in the event focused on the strategic opportunities and practical tactics created through social media, especially as they apply to businesses of across every market. In comparison to traditional advertising, Gabriel Shaoolian pointed out the contrast between entrepreneurs and established brands. “If you want to generate brand loyalty online, you’ve got to put content out there that’s useful to your visitors,” he pointed out, answering the audience’s questions about how to best use these new tools to grow their business.

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Stuck in the office, working a report while your son plays in an important Little League game? Caught in traffic while your daughter makes her high school basketball debut? Really enjoy slavishly following high school sports from schools 850 miles away from you, for some reason? Read the rest of this entry »

How long does it take to make a blog?

Not long. If you’ve got an email address and an untapped well of misanthropic angst, you can set up a blog using a free template in a matter of minutes.

How long does it take to make a good blog? The kind of custom, robust content provider that’s going to get your ideas to the world and the world to your site?

That’s a different story.

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Firebug lets users instantly inspect and tinker with code (HTML & CSS) of any site on the web. What makes it better than just viewing source is two primary features. Firstly, you can highlight any element of a page and be taken straight to the code behind that element. Secondly, you can tweak the code and see how it affects the page (of course, the changes only affect your local viewing of the page–not the actual live page).

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