While we're known primarily as a web and print design company, we also offer complete printing services on a wide variety of popular print products at competitive prices. If you're currently using another printer, get a printing estimate from us before your next order. Show us your previous estimate or receipt and we'll either match […]
Author: Thai Yin
Gaslamp Media cofounder Thai Yin has been in the website and internet marketing industry since 2003, starting out as designer for a leading internet marketing and lead generation company before becoming a freelancer. Thai started his own design firm in 2006 (Yin Media Corp) with a small team of talented designers and developers and later formed Gaslamp Media in 2008. He currently oversees all web design and development projects for Gaslamp Media. A self proclaimed nerd, he stays up to date with the latest in Internet trends and passes that knowledge to his clients. Thai has a BS in Management Science from University of California, San Diego.
In January 2010, management from the new Courtyard Marriott in downtown Seattle, WA contacted Gaslamp Media to design window displays announcing the construction of their new hotel in the historic Alaska Building in the Pioneer District. Inspired by the recent work we did for the Residence Inn Marriott in downtown San Diego (Gaslamp District), the Courtyard […]
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Ongoing Education for Gaslamp Media Clients
As a company of internet marketers, designers, consultants, and web developers, we pride ourselves on educating our clients, prospective clients, and anybody who wants to learn. It's important that everyone we work with make informed decisions and know their options. That's why we're committed to presenting free educational seminars on at least a semi-weekly basis, […]
Today's seminar was about techniques and tips to get your site indexed in search engines, the first step of a multi-part search engine optimization campaign. Search engines use “spiders” that “crawl” the Internet, following links throughout the world wide web and indexing all the pages it comes across. The most important things to get your […]
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Website 101 Review
Last Friday, we had our second Meetup event held at our office. There were 12 people in attendance, filling up the conference room table for a cozy one hour seminar. It was lead by presenters Chris Shaughnessy and Thai Yin. The purpose of the seminar was to educate the general public about what they need […]
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San Diego Web & Print Marketing Seminars
Gaslamp Media is hosting an ongoing series of seminars to help you make informed marketing decisions for your business or organization. Check it out on our events page or join our Meetup.com group for upcoming events.
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Tips for Restaurant Website Design
Restaurant websites share many of the same principles of any website. They need to be user friendly, easy to navigate, have good information hierarchy, and exhibit consistent branding elements from the restaurant itself. While there's endless restaurant concepts, they all have the same goals: Get people to your restaurant Get people to your restaurant Get […]
The biggest complaint that we hear on a regular basis is “It's really hard to update my website.” Between learning HTML, filtering through hundreds of lines of code, and resizing photos, getting new information on your website can be as painful as pulling teeth. Information goes stale while business passes by. Thankfully, the community of […]
A Content Management System (CMS) allows you to create, manage, store and edit content without any HTML programming knowledge. You are able to edit your content from any computer with an Internet connection, and because of this you no longer have to rely on third-party developers or companies to help keep your website up-to-date. This […]
Problem: Flakey webmasters In early 2008, we noticed an unfortunate trend in website development – flakey webmasters. This often lead to sticky situations and disputes between business owners and the person/company managing their website. Something as simple as changing the phone number on the company website could take months because of difficulty communicating. Time to […]