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Covid 19 Update
Honeycomb Creative continues to operate with management in the office and all staff working from home. We are working on updating existing websites and starting new projects.
Email is the best way to communicate, please provide a call back number if you would like to speak with someone.
Stay well, stay apart, stay healthy.
-Allen
Covid 19 Update
Social distancing in a small company, with people working on different floors, is pretty doable. But we’re taking it up a notch, by having Conor work from home. Now we have one person working per floor; Riley upstairs, Allen downstairs.
Client updates are getting done, but a little slower than usual. Slack is great chat tool, but nothing is more…
Covid 19 Update
Honeycomb is still open.
Riley is not skiing in Whistler. Conor is no longer going to Japan. Allen continues to worry. Yes, we’re currently in the office, but that may change. Fortunately, almost everything we do can be done from home. The best way to contact us is to send an email to [email protected]
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Stinson Aerial Services’ Drone Operations are Taking off with the Help of a New Website.
Stinson Aerial Services coordinates multi-aircraft platforms with experience from all facets of the aviation industry that help you with supplier selection, logistics and scheduling, aircraft management, cost tracking, and contract management and other aspects of your project. After a long successful history in helicopter management, Stinson decided to expand into drone services.
The home page of…
New Honeycomb Creative Website
We are absolutely thrilled to announce our new website at honeycombcreative.com has launched! The new site offers streamlined navigation, amazing responsive design, and a plethora of other unique features we want to share with you.
The programming for the website uses leading-edge technologies and techniques. We use a combination of WordPress for content management and Gatsby.js for building a static…
Direct Mail Postage is Cheaper than Single Stamps
Canada Post announced that postage rates would increase on January 13, with the price for stamps purchased in a booklet or coil rising to $0.92, up from $0.90. The cost of a single domestic stamp will increase to $1.07, up from $1.05. Prices will also increase for mail to the U.S. and international destinations, and for domestic Registered Mail.…
New Website for Briggs Nursery
We launched a new website for Briggs Nursery, an international leader in micro-propagation. Briggs Nursery propagates and grows a wide variety of specialty plants each year from its micropropagation laboratory and greenhouse in Elma, Washington. The new website features some of the over 1,000 specialty plants Briggs produces and provides quick access to current plant availability lists, wholesale contact…
Gatsby.js: Moving Beyond WordPress
We love WordPress. We hate WordPress. WordPress is useful. How can we use WordPress less?
Those are all common discussions in our office. To ensure that we are providing the best web development solutions to our clients, we are constantly questioning our toolset.
At this writing (October 2019) WordPress is the most used content management system (CMS) in the world. And…
Website Hosting Infrastructure
There is no secret to our super-fast, secure website hosting.
Here are the tools that we use:
DNS: Cloudflare – Domain name queries are processed within milliseconds, and a robust global Anycast network ensures DNS availability.
Hard drives: All our webservers use SSD drives for blazing-fast delivery. We use multiple hosting providers including DigitalOcean and UpCloud.
Image Delivery: We use Amazon S3 buckets…
Dendoff’s Website Springs into Action
Located in Surrey, BC, Dendoff Springs manufactures a wide range of hot and cold wound springs and wire forms with exacting precision. For companies that manufacture products, listing as much information about the product offerings is important for searchability. Clients have to find you. Once that client is there, you need to make sure they…
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