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A New Wave of Websites for Realtors…

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Brixwork is a premier product of ours that makes managing websites easy and professional for small business owners. We are in preparation steps to start offering a subscription based service soon, for Real Estate Agents!

We will bring a fresh new vibe to the industry. Out with the old designs with too much clutter, lines, and boxes. In with our new designs that are clean, simple, elegant, user-friendly, and never gets old! Blend this with amazing functionality and cross-browser friendliness, and we can provide you with an excellent solution for your realtor websites. (more…)

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Sonika Studio Has Moved!

Monday, November 30th, 2009

It was a very small move actually – we moved from suite #1301 to #1701 in the exact same building, so our new address is as follows:

#1701 – 388 Drake Street
Vancouver, BC V6B 6A8

Our office is slightly larger as the new suite’s renovation has removed some of the dividing walls. We will resume regular service by Tuesday December 1st after the move work and cleaning is all done. Thank you for your patience and support.

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Advanced Notice of Service Interruption Sept. 21~27

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

redcrossI’ll be going through a slight operation (tonsilectomy) on September 21st (Monday), and have been informed that I will be heavily medicated with pain killers, while unable to eat any solid or warm food for a few days. I was advised to take at least a week off work.

While I will be checking my emails for urgent material, and putting some time in throughout the week, there will be some slow-down to the services. (more…)

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Win a Free Ticket to the WordCamp Fraser Valley!

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

As announced before, Sonika Studios Inc. is presenting “Beyond Template Tags” at the WordCamp Fraser Valley. As one of the speakers, we are entitled to give out one free pass to a lucky winner through a draw. This is an excellent chance for you to win a free pass ($75 value!).

Here’s how you can win:

A. If you create a blog post on your own blog (doesn’t have to be WordPress), with a link back to this post with the handle “Vancouver Web Design Agency Sonika Studios Inc. at the WordCamp Fraser Valley” within the <a> tag, we will award you 3 entries.

B. If you tweet “@sonikastudios is presenting at the @wcfv this Saturday on WordPress for total web CMS. Win a free pass to the event at http://bit.ly/UdiDM”, we will award you 1 entry.

The contest will close at 6pm Friday (August 21st 2009).

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Sonika will be presenting at Wordcamp Fraser Valley!

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Wordcamp is a series of events held all over the place, promoting the use of WordPress and also educating designers, developers, and other business professionals how to utilize WordPress to its maximum capacity. Jeff Kee, CEO of Sonika Studios Inc., will be making a presentation regarding development using WordPress.

Of course, Sonika Studios Inc. is an industry leader when it comes to applying WordPress as a CMS in order to deliver self-managed websites to clients who want them, and you can read more about how we use WordPress as a CMS here. WordPress and its plugins allow an excellent user experience for the business owner, without the headache of learning the vast complexities of other off-the-shelf CMS solutions such as Joomla or Drupal.

As a lighter alternative to our own semi-custom developed CMS platform, Brixwork, a professionally modified edition of WordPress can deliver you the results you need for a simple yet powerful CMS. Of course, if you want full-strength and a lot of custom development options, our Brixwork platform is your answer, but more than half of our website clients can sufficiently manage their sites with a WordPress system, so you could be one of them!

Wordcamp Fraser Valley is being held on August 22nd, between 9AM to 5PM, at the Surrey SFU campus. It’s near the Surrey Central Skytrain station, so either drive down, or hop on the Skytrain to get there! Tickets and other details can be found at the Wordcamp Fraser Valley Site.

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The Website is underway…

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

We have finally completed the programming of the front-page slide module. Now we are preparing to enter the data, and set up the rest of the pages and the design. Using wordpress and its template tags structure effectively, we have created a website that is fully running on WordPress and nothing else. Using WordPress as a CMS is one of our specialties in this industry, and it is an effective way to set up a text-content driven website. Applying graphic content and other options into WordPress is available as well.

We are also preparing the launch of our iCep (Custom Easy Platform). This is a revolutionary semi-custom development platform that we use to customize content options just for your website, based on your industry requirements. This platform has been implemented successfully with many different industry types, and we are proudly launching an updated version of it. Please look forward to our next blog post!

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Sonika Studios Inc. Opens!

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

Sonika Studios Inc. is an expansion and a re-brand of its former company, Synchronous Design & Marketing. Over the years we’ve grown, and learned, and now we finally felt ready to incorporate our company and take a bigger step. To our patrons of Synchronous Design & Marketing, thank you for your loyalty, and we hope to continue to serve you even better.

We are still finalizing our company logo. Based on feedback from clients and friends, the logo has morphed significantly, and we are very close to determining a final winner. Our website is also being completely overhauled. With all the expertise and knowledge we’ve gained, we are confident that this is our best company website ever! Built on a WordPress platform, we also incorporated jQuery and jQueryUI into our new site. These are powerful tools that we apply also to our clients’ websites.

Please keep coming back to our website as we keep adding valuable content!

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