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Artemis Launches City of Southfield Website
By Marketing Director on 5/4/2007
Artemis today launches a new, high-end website for the City of Southfield, the diverse and thriving business center of the Detroit metro area. Southfield’s new municipal website combines sophisticated marketing with user-friendly design. The redesigned site introduces the city through a dynamic, Flash-animated landing page which engages visitors and projects the city’s positive brand. An expanded top menu organizes information in a transparent, easy-to-find format.
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Solve Technical Staffing Challenges
By Marketing Director on 3/23/2007
Do you have a large software project coming up—but not the permanent staff to handle it? Maybe you’re thinking of implementing voice over IP for your call center, but don’t have the telephony expertise in-house. Now, Artemis can help you find the best solution to your technical staffing issues. With our new staff augmentation services, we have put our years of experience locating and screening technical hires to work for our clients. We set a high bar for Artemis employees, and we’ll make sure that you also get the best.
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Congratulations to an award-winning team!
By Marketing Director on 3/23/2007
Artemis Solutions was honored recently in the prestigious ADDYs, the world’s largest advertising competition. The Artemis creative team, headed by Creative Director Steve Jencks, walked away from this year’s 6th District regional competition with three Silver ADDYs in recognition of their outstanding design for the Lansing Symphony website, the Artemis Solutions website, and the Greater Lansing Visitor’s Bureau Kiosks.
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A Little SEO Goes a Long Way
By Joseph Sak on 2/26/2007 4:55 PM
Last December, I took on the task of doing my first real Search Engine Optimization (SEO) job for one of our clients: Modern Metal Processing.
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Turning around a project in a weekend – an Artemis code jam story
By App Dev Team on 11/29/2006
What happens when a project fails to actually solve the business goals of a client yet perfectly fulfills the original ‘objective’ it was devised for?
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What to design first: Your database layer? Or your user interface?
By App Dev Team on 9/25/2006
It seems that every six months there are new buzzwords or processes that are springing up, attempting to revolutionize the software industry; you really have to do a lot of research and apply some common sense and experience to determine which ones are worth their salt. There has been one shift in the industry that we at Artemis are definitely firm believers in:  Starting your software project from the Front to Back (UI to Database), not Back to Front (Database to UI).

Back to Front- The Outdated Method
Traditionally, when a new project began, the software architects would start by designing all of the low-level architecture along with the complex data structures that would house the software's entities.  This technique would allow the software engineers to figure out all of the data the software would track, and then build all the code to store and retrieve the data.  Lots of time would be spent in designing and re-factoring how the da ...
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