The Official Blog of AREA203 Digital

Some mornings, you wake up at 4:45 a.m. to this alarm. Then at 7 a.m., your real alarm doesn’t go off, your dog poops on [...]

Have You Ever Wondered… …what actually goes on inside the four walls of AREA203 Digital? Well, here’s a peek! Each month, we are going to [...]

I Love to Laugh My husband will tell you – I crack myself up all the time, giggle at commercials, and get tickled over silly [...]

I turn to TED.com for inspiration on a regular basis. Their talks are inspiring, palatable (no longer than 30 minutes), and downright brilliant. Tim Brown, [...]

  Getting to work and staying at work is one thing, but getting to work and making the most of your time there is absolutely [...]

John F. Kennedy once said, “The human mind is our fundamental resource.” How are you using your resources? Are you feeling negative, tired, defeated? Maybe [...]

At AREA203 Digital, there are a lot of voices: loud voices, soft voices, serious voices, peppy voices. But one thing all the voices have in [...]

Some days (especially Mondays) it’s really hard to look outside yourself. With deadlines, project snags, emails and a lack of coffee in front of you, [...]

  In the Creative department at AREA203, you’ll hear the phrases “customer journey” and “continuity” a lot. We’re talking about an experience, and we ask [...]

I eat books like cereal. Figuratively. So every New Years, I review the year by the number and quality of books I read that year. [...]

Last week, several of us from the creative team took a field trip. Chattanooga Stand hosted one of their CityShare meet ups and invited Jennifer [...]

How to strengthen your site by planning your content. The goal of a user-friendly website is to be efficient, relevant, to direct users quickly to [...]

Is sitting at a desk for eight hours a day bad for you? Is standing at a desk the right solution? Are people even interested [...]

After several years and a wealth of superb design work, Elaine Manglicmot has moved on from AREA203 Digital. Before she sailed away, we caught up [...]

“Oh! You majored in English? Maybe you can help me improve my writing!” From the number of times I’ve heard that, I’ve learned two things: [...]

I have “book ADD”. When I read, I read approximately six books at a time, skipping from one to the other as the spirit takes [...]

An important piece of our literary history is about to die a very slow, agonized death. “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” Mark Twain’s famous tale of [...]

Using animals to sway consumers has been an advertising ploy for decades. Who can resist a fluffy golden retriever puppy selling toilet paper or a [...]

I walk a lot. It’s good for me; it’s good for the environment; it saves money. And in this fast-paced world, it’s a simple way [...]

While blog-hopping, I came across Canadian publicist Corey Redekop’s website. Embedded in one post was a book trailer for Doug Harris’s You comma Idiot, due [...]

Something—I don’t know what, but we shall blame word sprites—reminded me of the word “travertine” today.  I thought about it, and I came to the [...]

On my drive this morning, I saw a sign for the Plaque Shack.  And it struck me that plaque is a homonym: it has multiple [...]