Overmortal Technology Blog.

Web Design Inspiration and Morphogenesis

by Michael on 2009-11-27 08:51:10 tags: overmortal, web design, web design inspiration

In the world of web design, nothing stings worse than when somebody else rips you off. But unfortunately, we're talking about technology and the Internet, and in this grand ol' age of openness, easy access, and millions upon millions of web pages, eventually somebody is going to do things that look similar to your accomplishments. It happens - whether with web design or some neat new AJAX functionality.

As designers and technologists, we accept that. Coming from a writing background, I've had the luxury of being plagiarized by a major city newszine in the past. It was a blatant ...

How to Get Your Site Unbanned from Google

by Michael on 2009-06-19 09:48:50 tags: google, overmortal, search engines, yahoo

Getting banned by the search engines is something that every webmaster dreads. No web site can survive without being indexed by Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. If, however, your web site does get banned by the search engines, there are certain steps you can follow to get your site on the fast track to being reinstated and re-indexed.

The first rule is to NOT GET BANNED. This sounds silly to list, but the reality is that the team here at Overmortal has been building web sites since 1996 and the rarity of seeing and/or hearing about banned sites in our ...

Ring in the New Year with Overmortal

by Michael on 2009-01-02 09:02:00 tags: overmortal

2008 became a tough year for many companies because of the economy, but where many wallow in the despair of a recession, the companies destined for success use it as an opportunity to become the breakout companies of the next few years. Those that spent wisely and built strong foundations will excel past the successful marks of companies from 2-3 years ago.

In 2009, Overmortal has a ton of new technological work coming down the pipeline. From advanced Python & Django applications to Adobe AIR to iPhone SDK development, 2009 looks to be a year of technological advancement for us and ...

Overmortal: Choosing a Name

by Michael on 2008-11-27 09:55:39 tags: branding, overmortal

Some people have asked us over the years why we chose the name Overmortal for our company, and what exactly the term means.

Overmortal is actually a play off of the Friedrich Nietzsche term "overman" from Nietzsche's concept of man versus overman.

When thoughts on a name for this company began to circulate, "overman" was one of the suggestions. Most of the domain names using "overman" were already taken, so we started to think about variations of it. I'm not exactly sure how we got to "overmortal" but when the name was first spoken, it had a nice ...