We’ve been tweaking our website for the past couple of days and we’re happy to announce that we’ve finished coding it in HTML5. =)

For those of you who don’t know, HTML5 has captured all of the rage lately since it is the next major revision of HTML, the core markup language of the web*.

Thanks to the new tags and code clean-up, the size of our website has been reduced in about 25%, which translates into faster loading times.

HTML5, we’re ready for you!

Last Tuesday Ahlera’s website was featured in a blog post called 52 Beautiful Blue Layouts in Web Design on Abduzeedo’s blog.

We were quite surprised and would like to thank them for placing us on this list next to some big names.

Abduzeedo is one of of the leading design blogs on the web founded by Fabio Sasso, a Brazilian web designer.

We’re very proud to announce that we’ve joined the Uruguayan Chamber of Information Technology.

A couple of weeks ago we got notice that our application was accepted, but we wanted to wait until we rolled out the new design to announce it.

We’re very happy to be a part of UCIT and the benefits are already starting to show.

You’ll find Ahlera on the first page of UCIT’s members here.

If you’re reading this, you might have noticed that our website looks brand spankin’ new. We’ve built our new website from the ground up, including a new logo. We’re keeping the blue, but we’ve changed the shade.

We still have some bugs to fix though. If you see something broken, it is very likely that we’re hard at work fixing it, even though it make take a while since our client work is our priority.

As you can see, the main site is powered mostly by plain ol’ HTML and JavaScript. So, what do you think? Do you like it? We’d love to get some feedback.

It has been a great year for Ahlera and we’re projecting an even better one for 2009. Thank you for helping us make it happen!  We really hope to continue helping you grow with your projects.

We’d like to post a note regarding our holiday schedule.

We will be working until 3 pm on December 24th and we will be closed during the entire 25th.  We will resume work as usual after that and work until 3 pm on December 30th.  We will be closed until January 5th 2009.

Hopefully our schedule will not be a problem for your needs.  If you have any questions or comments, you may send them in via our contact form and we’ll answer them as soon as possible.

Everyone at Ahlera would like to thank you for this year full of accomplishments and we’re looking forward to working with you in 2009.

Happy holidays!

I woke up this morning only to find that our new design has been featured in CSSMania.com today!

You can check it out and vote for it in the front page here or in the archive here.

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Welcome to Ahlera’s new website! My name is Daiver Pedemonte and I manage client accounts in Ahlera.  My job is to make sure that our clients know at all times the status of their projects and make sure that I have answers when they need them.  My tasks also involve planning projects, setting deadlines and making sure that we keep them! This allows designers to design and programmers to program, without worrying about anything else.

Our blog will hopefully help maintain an open communication channel between the studio and “the outside”.  We’re looking forward to letting people know what we’re up to but, most importantly, hear what you have to say about us!

If you want to follow us through Twitter, please feel free to do so.  You can also keep up with what’s playing in the studio via our Last.fm account.

Anyway, we’re still finishing our website, so please excuse the mess.