Category: Web

  • Health Quality Ontario Website Wins 2013 Summit Creative Award

    Health Quality Ontario was the recipient of the Silver Summit International Award in the Government Website category. Summit International Awards recognize “best in class” creative and communications excellence. HQO’s site competed with over 5,000 submissions from 23 countries. I am very proud to have received this award; it is a reflection of the hard work…

  • Welcome to Health Quality Ontario–a website by Mike Kormendy

    Welcome to Health Quality Ontario–a website by Mike Kormendy

    As HQOA years worth of design, programming and collaboration comes to the forefront. I couldn’t be happier to have produced something as complicated and successful.

  • Find Out About Ontario’s Long-Term Care Homes

    Today, Health Quality Ontario’s Long-Term Care Public Reporting Website was refreshed with home-level data for all 630+ long-term care homes in Ontario. This is a first for the province – in fact, HQO now hosts the most comprehensive long-term care public reporting website in Canada. Any member of the public who is interested in long-term…

  • Gap's New Rebrand

    When I visited the Gap website this morning for the first time, I was appaled at the entire roll out (or lack thereof) of their brand across all sources: gap.com (old favicon still displayed on the address bar), wikipedia (not even updated), twitter account (not updated), facebook profile (not updated). It makes me wonder if…

  • PHP GD Sharpening, Photoshop-style

    So I have been working on my thumbnail image sharpening script .. and I am happy to show some MAJOR progress. Go here: Testbed Image Sharpening I hope that you can see the difference in detail from the first image to the second. The first image is blurry and the second is sharper. When all…