Tecture LLC

Managing Member

Most favorite project I've worked on: There are so many that it is hard to choose! I love the diversity and challenges that each of our clients offer us. If I had to pick one, it would be Site Ignition, which is Tecture's website platform that powers many of the sites we build.

My proud project moment: I am most proud of working with each client to set up their project in a way that is a win for everyone. The best projects are those that everyone loves working on, and when our staff is challenged by the work, they thrive. When our work thrills our clients and exceeds their expectations, we are incredibly proud. When the project is profitable, our business can grow. And of course, when the project delivers results, everyone wins.

My favorite hero: Steve Jobs. I would not be in this field without his influence on the direction of personal computing. I learned to program on my dad's Apple IIe when I was in elementary school, and haven't looked back.

My favorite "spirit": Pinot noir from Willamette Valley, preferably the 2008 vintage.

Best vacation I've ever taken: Skiing at Vail. The scenery is breathtaking, it's great exercise, and what a rush!

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Articles by Ben Rowland:

• Responsive Web Design - Considerations and Trade-offs
• Track and eliminate dead end pages on your website
• 10 Key Online Social Marketing Tactics
• Modern Wisdom for Search-Engine Optimization
• Why Flash is a Poor Choice for Websites
• Open Source or Commercial Software
• The 10 Secrets of Budget Web Hosts

Posts by Ben Rowland:

• iOS 6 upgrade rate is astonishing (posted November 05, 2012)
• Commonly overlooked pages make great marketing opportunities (posted October 11, 2012)
• Google Plus Launches Pages for Business (posted November 08, 2011)
• New Amazon Silk Web Browser Announced (posted September 28, 2011)
• Restaurant Web Design (posted August 15, 2011)
• Google Plus Project (posted June 29, 2011)
• Mobile Ecommerce to Reach 31 Billion by 2016 (posted June 21, 2011)
• Illinois internet sales tax law to impact online stores (posted March 10, 2011)
• Designing websites for mobile devices (posted March 03, 2011)
• Android Rapidly Gaining Market Share (posted October 05, 2010)
• The State of the Browser as of September 2010 (posted September 02, 2010)
• Facebook launches Promote Your Post feature (posted March 02, 2010)
• Web visitors more likely to give up personal information to cheesy websites (posted December 23, 2009)
• Google rolling out real-time search (posted December 14, 2009)
• SEO News - Google is ignoring nofollow (posted December 11, 2009)
• Android is silently stalking the iPhone (posted December 10, 2009)
• Google Social Search (posted October 23, 2009)
• A viable business model for Twitter - Pro Accounts are coming (posted August 21, 2009)
• Microsoft and Yahoo partner in search deal (posted July 29, 2009)
• Firefox 3.5 launched (posted June 30, 2009)
• Starbucks keeping tabs on customers via Twitter (posted May 20, 2009)
• Google adding rich snippets to search results using microformats (posted May 12, 2009)
• Google Analytics API Launched (posted April 24, 2009)
• IE8 released (posted March 19, 2009)
• Binth Joker deck featured on Thrillist (posted March 05, 2009)
• Facebook nearly adds Twitter to friends list (posted March 02, 2009)
• Chicago is all a Twitter (posted February 19, 2009)
• New Canonical Link Element to Ease SEO and URL Rewriting (posted February 17, 2009)
• Google Friend Connect (posted January 12, 2009)
• Google updates PageRank data in toolbar (posted January 10, 2009)
• XSS (cross-site scripting) attack prevention (posted January 09, 2009)
• Google Chrome out of beta (posted December 11, 2008)