A New Beginning

The FOUNDRY is closing its office doors. I am not taking any more clients for now.
I (Jeff Turman, digital artist for FOUNDRY) have been running this business for a little over a year now. While I will keep the business name and finish the work that I have agreed to for my last clients, I [...]





Speedy Web Optimization?

What is the general bandwidth/speed which the internet viewers of your website have in their vicinity? A long question, and the answer is not especially positive for developers: not very much bandwidth = not very much speed.
Our computers’ processors can only do so much, and they can not suck the information out of the internet [...]





WordPress updates its own plugins

WordPress relies on plugins to add functionality to its blog-based interface, both on the front and in its admin area. These plugins have to be updated occasionally, either for security or to keep working with an update of the WordPress platform. WordPress 2.5 is no exception. It needs almost everyone of its plugins updated for [...]





Advertise Now, While it’s Worth it

Because we are involved in the on-line advertising market, we thought it was important to remind all those companies that are considering cutting back on marketing that it is not wise to do so during a recession.
Who said “recession?” We did. That is correct, it is an undeniable truth that the US dollar has fallen [...]





CSSelite Features Foundry

Our new website has been featured on CSSelite (a great place to find inspiration for web design.) We have to thank CSSelite and all those folks who come to see our sight who are directed from them. 





FOUNDRY is Featured

Foundry design has been featured on ‘We Love WP’ at http://welovewp.com/. Take a look to find a little miniature thumbnail of our site posted there. WLWP is a site dedicated to WordPress design.

Thanks, guys. We are proud to be on your site.





Brand New Site, Brand New Bag

Wow, it is always easier to build then destroy than to never have destroyed at all… in our opinion. But it is not the easy route to rebuild. Especially on a foundation that we aren’t familiar with in the first place.
Tax season is over, and WordPress 2.5 (our favorite CMS and client pleaser) has increased [...]





WP 2.5, Color Changes (and other good stuff!)

Well, it is finally coming (hopefully soon, but already past its due date.) ‘It’ is the new Wordpress v2.5. Does it promise to be great?
We will have to see, but for right now we can definitely say it will be different in the backend layout. The functionality may not change a lot, but it is [...]





Tucson Digital Arts Community

We are now part of the Tucson Digital Arts Community. This group is represented by the brightest stars on Tucson’s burgeoning web and graphic design scene.
I know, I know… ‘Scene’ is a word best left untouched by all but the most wanna-be ‘hipsters.’ But - hey isn’t it nice to be supported by [...]





On Green Web Design

As we shift our design emphasis from the typical corporate web sites to the newer Web 2.0, we have found that Green is becoming a popular search term. And it seems to be a popular color in general, both in style and in conversation.
What is so important about Green and its application to the web?
A [...]