Fontin Sans on spigotdesign.com

June 5, 2009

Web designers have long desired to be able to use more fonts than the standard list of web-safe fonts. When Apple introduced Safari 3.1 in March 2008 with support for @font-face embedding, it looked like…

New design & theme switcher

May 27, 2009

As you can tell, we’ve launched a new look to the site – a lighter, brighter version of Spigot Design for those who thought the previous design was too dark and brooding. For those who…

Chamber of Commerce email lists

May 22, 2009

One of the many benefits of being a Chamber of Commerce member in Park City is access to the member contact list, including emails. This list contains over 1800 contacts, and at a time when…

Spigot Design Wants You to Get Noticed

May 1, 2009

The following is an article printed in the April 22nd issue of the Park Record, and is reprinted with permission: Website creator favors simple, clean & modern By ANDREW KIRK Of the Record staff Language…

2009 MacHeist bundle review

April 27, 2009

While there are quite a few people out there who detest the MacHeist event, I for one, love it. If you started from the beginning at The Giving Tree and subsequently participated in all the…

Park City Ink

April 22, 2009

Thanks to Andrew Kirk of the Park City Record for the great write-up on Spigot Design. UPDATE on 5/19/09 – I guess the Park Record doesn’t archive their articles for free, so that link is…

Shane McConkey 1969 – 2009

March 30, 2009

I got to meet Shane as a lift op in Crested Butte one year during the U.S. Extreme championships. It wasn’t an extended meeting, but amongst all the ego at those events, he was a…

Web hosting: Finding happiness

March 30, 2009

One of the services we offer here at Spigot Design is high quality web hosting. You may wonder what we mean by hight quality… hosting is hosting right? Well, not really. 9 Steps To A…

Custom built websites vs web templates

March 27, 2009

Here at Spigot Design, we plug ourselves as a ‘custom’ web design studio, with heavy emphasis on the custom (and design) parts. But occasionally we’ll build a site that is based on a template for…

Drop down menus are good?

March 25, 2009

While I’ve designed a few in my day, it’s standard protocol around the studio to swat drop down menus like the annoying, dysfunctional bugs they are. But am I being too critical and one sided? Matt…