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Development

The Art of Eliminating Nasty Code Smells

When most people think of the work The C2 Group creates, they envision beautiful designs and a well-planned user experience.  But the visuals created by our design team are not the only beautiful part of the final product.  The developers at C2 work up a sweat make sure their code on the site is pleasing to work with and stays clean.  In other words, the code doesn't smell...

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A Better Way to XSLT

As one of our Senior Advanced Developers, Brian is always looking for ways to optimize his code. Like he says in his blog, "I want my websites to be fast, and it seems I'm always looking for ways to squeeze a little more performance out of my code." Check out one of his solutions here...

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User Experience Design: The Human Factor

So what do user's need? To answer that question we'd better take a look at what drives people to do what they do. Read more

"Great" - The New Mediocre

It's almost 2012, and we're in the biggest innovation game of our lives. It's hard to believe, but the market is getting "watered down" with great products. To win - you have to not only be great, but the greatest.

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John Wooden on Coding

What did John Wooden know about building websites? Turns out, quite a lot.

If John Wooden's asking a question, I'm always interested in the answer. And while he's not talking about web work specifically, it strikes me that Coach Wooden's idea powers all good projects. His approach is embraced here at C2....

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