Everything but the Turkey

EDMOND, OK- Ingenux, Inc. is working with the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma to host the "Everything but the Turkey" food drive aimed toward filling the food bank for the holiday season. Ingenux is challenging all who are interested to participate by bringing nonperishable food to the Ingenux offices or to the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma November 9-20. "The Ingenux team is very active with regards to helping out our local community and this is a great way to get others involved to help those in need. Our turkey drive last year was a huge success with the end result feeding more than 2,200 people." said Brandy Semore, Production Director at Ingenux. Ingenux is a website and software development company located in Edmond in the Le Cour office building at 1300 E. 9th St. Suite 5. Over 35 million people are considered to live in a household that is 'food insecure' and Oklahoma ranks in the top ten food insecure state. Since its inception in 1980, the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma has distributed more than 293 million pounds of food worth more than $468 million.

Meet our newest team member!

Brandon McKinney joins the Ingenux team as the latest Web Developer. Brandon graduated from the design program at the University of Central Oklahoma in 2007. Having an education in design as a programmer allows Brandon to solve problems with a unique approach. He has developed numerous solutions for a wide variety of clients ranging from local individuals to regional companies, such as At the Beach, and even international clients, such as Dell. Ingenux is excited to serve our clientele with elegant solutions tailored for their specific needs.

When does Minimalist Web 2.0 Design go too Far?

Every month a breath of new web design projects filter into our company. As our core expertise and business focus is custom web and software application development, my attention is more distant with regards to corporate design now-a-days. However, my eyes caught a project in the works and I thought to myself "When does minimalist web 2.0 design go too far?" What I mean by that is how clean and clutter free can a website get until the allure of the service or product falls by the wayside? There is definitely a happy means or "Zen" that needs to be reached during the design process.In web design, minimalism refers to the use of the smallest amount of images, colors, shapes, values and lines. The site is stripped down to the fundamentals required to convey the message. Minimalist web designs generally rely on type and simple shapes to do the communicating. This minimalist approach has evolved in some circles as the basis of web 2.0 design. The backbone of the web 2.0 era that ushered in blogs, videos, podcasts, wikis and online communities where people with common interests get together to share ideas, media, code and all types of information was meant to be more - not less, but designed in a way where information is easily accessed on a clean and simple layout. This is a far cry from the "massive content, image heavy with more features to shake a stick at" era which for the most of us, is a recent memory.

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