Category: Projects

  • Health Quality Ontario wins Silver 2013 W³ Award

    Not one, but two awards were won by the HQOntario.ca website. In addition to the prestigeous Summit Awards, the W³ Awards Silver Award honors creative excellence on the web, and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award winning sites, videos and marketing programs. Simply put, the W³ is the first major web competition to…

  • Exchanging vows, from Right to Left.

    A critique of the United States acceptance of same-sex marriage law.

  • 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…

  • Time Machine Auto-mount/unmount Drive OS X

    Here’s a way to avoid having to manually mount and unmount (eject) a USB backup drive before and after a Time Machine backup on OS X Lion or later by using a shell script and creating a LaunchAgent.

  • 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…

  • Grun·Built

    I’m working on a new website for Joel Greenwald’s construction company called Grun·Built. In about 20 minutes I’ve put together a very rudimentary splash-page featuring some resizing full-screen imagery to showcase some of his work. Check it out and check back in about a month’s time, we’ll have some more content up for people to…