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The Department of Energy’s Energy Frontiers Research Centers

27 Feb, 2024
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The Department of Energy’s Energy Frontiers Research Centers (EFRCs) is a research program of the U.S. Department of Energy that brings together creative, multidisciplinary, and multi-institutional teams of scientific researchers to address the toughest challenges at the forefront of fundamental energy science research.

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Facebook Messenger Scam

24 Jan, 2024
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Many of our clients are getting ominous messages through Facebook Messenger stating that their pages will be either deleted or disabled, or that they have violated a Facebook policy. These are phishing scams and should be ignored.

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Dark Matter Day Elevated Through Rebranding

06 Dec, 2023
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Interactions is a global collaboration of top communicators at particle physics labs around the world. Since 2017, Dark Matter Day has been a collaboration-wide project with labs, universities, and other physics groups hosting and managing live and virtual events. Celebrated on or around October 31st each year, Dark Matter Day was initially given a spooky vibe. Now that we’re six years into this successful annual endeavor, it was time to review the brand, graphics, and messaging in order to keep things fresh and moving forward.

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Headless Drupal: New & Here to Stay

27 Sep, 2023
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When it comes to building a website or web application, you want one that’s eye-catching, user-friendly, and helps you sell your product or service to your target audience effectively. Countless websites use Drupal as their content management system (CMS) to create and manage both the back end and front end of their website. Drupal gives the website developer the ability to create the right dynamic look while providing a high-quality experience for website visitors. Headless Drupal lets you have all the back-end power of Drupal with a perfectly customized front end experience.

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Xeno Media Celebrates 25 Years as Chicagoland Digital Agency

03 Nov, 2022
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What started out as humble beginnings working out of an apartment in Chicago’s Ukrainian Village neighborhood has turned into a profitable full-fledged web agency and digital marketing agency. Their client base has expanded rapidly to include major companies such as Allstate Corporation, Mount Franklin Foods, and Young Innovations.

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Xeno Media helps Level-1 drive IT infrastructure

29 Jun, 2021
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From The O'Hare 21 expansion to The Michael Reese / Bronzeville Lakefront Redevelopment to the Adaptive Reuse of the Old Cook County Hospital, Level-1 is Chicago's Smart City Innovation leader in IT infrastructure design and planning--integrating hardware, software and network infrastructure systems to create environments that are optimized for the future.

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Track Campaigns with Parameters in Google Analytics

10 Mar, 2020
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If you’re running a specific promotion campaign that sends people to your website, you should add campaign parameters, called UTM parameters, to your links to track how well they perform in Google Analytics. This simple guide will walk you through it!

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Brewhouse Legends Craft Beer Christmas

04 Mar, 2020
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Xeno Media had the pleasure of working with Mount Franklin Foods, a national food brand that manufactures unique and flavorful snacks and candies. This Christmas we brought them a quirky, fun, a little bit out-there video concept, and they were all in. 

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Durabilt Redesigned: From BigCommerce to WordPress

23 Apr, 2019
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We migrated Durabilt's site from BigCommerce to a modern and responsive WordPress/WooCommerce platform.

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What you should do about Google's de-indexing bug.

11 Apr, 2019
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Google's de-indexing bug has been resolved. What should you do to see if you've been affected?

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What’s the Difference between Web Design and Web Development?

29 Sep, 2018
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Web design and web development are two parts of a process - one's drafting a blueprint for a website, the other is building it.

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When Should You Redesign Your Website?

13 Sep, 2018
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As trends shift in digital marketing, what your visitors will expect and accept will change too. Learn to see the most common red flags that you're in need of a refresh.