It has been a week since the brand hijack of TrustyPig occurred after a Romanian-based company revealed its new web site, which was a complete and total copy from a local Des Moines company called SmartyPig.   The dust has settled and we have been given an “explanation” of sorts from TrustyPig, so I thought it [...]

In what can only be seen as a victory for everybody who has ever had their site design ripped off, the creators of TrustyPig have at least changed their sites colors and logo on their main blog to something other than the exceptional design by HappyCog they previously copied.
While it appears to only be minor [...]

You hear about it almost everyday… there is a nicely designed web site done by a team (or sometimes an individual) that is not only nice to look at, but is also a unique idea, and a fledgling business struggling to be both born and survive in today’s depressed economy.
Des Moines has become a hotbed [...]