Email volume is up 43% in the six weeks before Christmas, according to the Email Experience Council. How will yours stand out in the crowd?

Part One in a Series of Four

First of all, email marketing works. According to the Direct Marketing Association “Email is faster and more affordable than traditional print mail and, by some measures, it offers the best return on investment (about $43 per dollar spent) of any marketing channel.”

Why three themes are sometimes better than one

We here at Mightybytes always look for ways to make our process better and reuse our knowledge from project to project. Recently this has taken the form of standardizing some of our Drupal theme overrides in a parent theme.

This year's winter batch includes an Imperial Pale Ale and our own custom version of a Brown Ale.

Tis the season, and at Mightybytes that means it’s also beer season! This year we’ve made some changes in our annual brewing adventures, moving on from pre-packaged beer kits used in past years, to recipes from Extreme Brewing by Sam Calagione. Add in our some of our own creative improvisation and holiday Mightybrew 2010 bubbles to life.

So many webfonts! Where to start?

With the introduction of web type services like Typekit, Fonts.com Web Fonts, Web FontFonts, and Typotheque, web designers now have a plethora of options when it comes to fonts for their designs. But not all web fonts are created equal.

Clean Food, Extreme Beer, Awesome Holiday.

As book lovers and storytellers as well as foodies and beer geeks, what better opportunity to put our favorite pastimes to the test than Thanksgiving?

Tim’s been in the north country this week working on Mightybytes site content and cooking up dishes like Wild Rice with Lemon, Fennel and Dried Plums and Red Lentil Soup with Turnip and Parsley from Terry Walters’ new cookbook Clean Start while James and Steve were busy bottling the second of three holiday batches of Mightybrew sourced from Dogfish Head brewmaster Sam Calagione’s book Extreme Brewing.