Skybox Creative, an Award-Winning Web Design Studio in San Diego, has moved offices. We are located in Mission Valley, the heart of San Diego – within 10-15 minutes from pretty much anything in San Diego. We invite you to visit our new space and learn about the services we offer!

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In August 2006 Angelina Sereno started Skybox Creative out of a spare bedroom in her home. Eventually she moved into a small office and then a larger office. Now on to the 4th office for the ever-growing company, the team finally has the space they need to spread their wings. Noticing a disconnect in the advertising and web design industry, she decided to start her own firm. She noticed that there were plenty of branding studios and fair share of web development companies, but there weren’t many companies that mastered both. With a background in advertising and print design, she brings with her over 10 years of experience building strong, lasting brands. Through her vision and inspiration, she attracted a stellar group of like-minded designers and tech-savvy programmers to create the Skybox team.

Our Web Design Portfolio has a great balance between function and creativity. We believe that if we don’t help your business grow, we’re not doing our job. Making sure your selling points are compelling and easily understood, while improving the public perception of your organization are our primary goals.

Skybox also added a printing division called Skybox Ink. Skybox Ink has a wide variety of printing products and options, including green printing (recycled paper and soy-based inks). From business cards to tri-fold brochures, corporate folders to vinyl banners and vehicle wraps, we’ve got you covered. Contact us for details!

Skybox Creative is celebrating our fourth year in business in August 2010 – Annual Mixer date to be announced (See Mixer photos)! Subsequently, we will be opening our east coast office then as well! Subscribe to our RSS feed to stay in the loop with Skybox news!

Great Web Design is just the beginning! Being found on the search engines, particularly the leader, Google, is critical to growing and sustaining your business – that’s why SEO and social media are such prevalent topics these days. Understanding SEO can be complicated, but luckily there are tools that make it easier!

One such tool is SEO Doctor for Firefox. This tool will help you understand and diagnose SEO problems on your site as well as understand factors of success on competitor websites.

At glance

SEO Doctor is made with both beginners and experienced SEOs in mind and it’s scoring system and recommendations are based on official SEO documents, namely Google Webmaster guidelines, Google Image guidelines and Google SEO starter guide as well as my own experience from years in the profession.

Main features are:

• Points out to potential problems and assigns a score for your pages based on common SEO methodology
• Shows link structure and helps track page rank flow for your pages
• Detects and warns you about pages not indexable by search engines using comprehensive methods
• Quick one-click access to most popular SEO tools allows you to additionally inspect a site
• Fully customizable

Features

By default SEO Doctor will place itself in the browser status bar, immediately providing you with the following information (see image).

SEO Score represents the result of on-site optimization analysis of the currently viewed page. Maximum score is 100 and the green flag will indicate everything is OK. Yellow flag indicates warnings and red flag suggests that concrete SEO elements can be improved. In a special case when the current page is not indexable at all by search engines, the icon will show a special ‘no-trespassing’ icon.

Flow shows how much of the Page Rank has been preserved on the site. 100% means that you preserve 100% of all the Page Rank on your site, while 0% would mean that all outgoing links are to other sites.

Links shows number of external links/total links on the page.

Visits show estimated number of daily visitors for the site (data is retrieved from Compete.com and is available to you if you register for a free API key).

Clicking the nofollow icon allows you to instantly highlight all nofollow links on the page on and off.

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Skybox Creative (Branding + Web Design) and Skybox Ink (Green Printing) are moving! Due to our growing success and need for more wiggle room, we are moving to a larger suite. We love the central location of our office, so we’re staying in the same building, just moving a few doors down. Please take note that our suite number is changing from 111 to 127 starting next Monday – May 24th, 2010. Our new office has a nice welcome area for clients to lounge and for small meetings.

We’d love to have you come visit us at our new location, so give us a call or email if you would like to stop by info@skyboxcreative.com or 619.381.3825

Clients and business associates, please take note of the change:

Skybox Creative
1081 Camino Del Rio South, Suite 127
San Diego, CA 92108

To a prosperous and successful 2010!!

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As a PayPal user, you can collect up to $1,000.00 USD for each new merchant you refer. The Merchant Referral Bonus program rewards you for bringing new businesses to PayPal.

Here’s how it works:

• Log in to your PayPal account
• Get your personalized referral link to send out in emails, add as a banner to your website, or incorporate into your e-commerce application.
• Each time a new merchant signs up for a PayPal Business or Premier account via your link or banner, you’ll immediately start receiving 0.5% of their payment volume – up to $1,000.00 USD.

Here is an example of the PayPal banner you can incorporate on your website:

For more info, click here. If you don’t already have a PayPal account, make sure to click on our banner and sign up, then get your own link and share with your friends and business associates!

Skybox Creative, San Diego’s premier web design and branding firm, recently launched DollarSmart’s new website! Check it out here!

DollarSmart is a check cashing and payday loans center that offers a fast, friendly and affordable service. They have multiple locations, including Hillcrest, Chula Vista, El Cajon, Doris, Channel Island, Simi Valley and Ventura.

Because of the nature of the business and their existing logo design, we kept the “green theme” prominent. We added a video and Blog to give the site some interactivity. The side navigation also gives them the opportunity to expand the site content in the future.

Last night, Skybox Creative attended the “Grand Premier” Showroom Opening for our client, OfficePlanIt + Olab Studio in downtown’s East Village. We completed their custom website in September of this year, and also worked with the contemporary office solutions company to create large format wall art, email campaign designs and postcards.

Their spectacular space, highlighted by premier dealer Inscape’s office systems, brings together the simplicity and edge of contemporary design with the unique character of their space – the original Wonder Bread factory building, heralding rich brick walls and industrial-style ceilings.

A showroom full of guests enjoyed a wide selection of delectable appetizers and cocktails, and most importantly, the lavish atmosphere created by presidents Theron Williams and Jim Edmondson, and their masterful OfficePlanIt team.

For more information on how OfficePlanIt can build your office interior dreams, visit OfficePlanIt.com