Being a “Microsoft Partner” is a lot more than registering and paying your dues. You have to keep qualifying for competencies, via training/writing exams and client engagements/references, as well as having personnel on staff that are individually certified. In the past two weeks, Nicom has obtained two new “Silver” certifications.

We’ve just started re-building the website for a new client in the seaport business. So many websites out there need the same basic fixes, and that drives our goals for this project.

Christmas Daddies on Saturday raised over $420,000 for needy families in Atlantic Canada. Nicom has been a corporate sponsor for over 15 years, donating its time and talents to the web site and online electronic payment gateway for donations. It is something we are proud of, and we are proud of our employees who make this happen.

“The cloud” is simply a term to describe computing services that you access online via a web browser, as opposed to having the same services from a server in your office. Many people are opting to go this route as opposed to buying equipment.

With the large variety of screen sizes and browser widths in use today, it’s very hard for a web designer to cater to all users using traditional design techniques. Just as screens are growing larger (with desktop displays) and smaller (with mobile computing), how do you accommodate so many vastly opposing scenarios? The fact is we live in an emerging Post-Desktop era that necessitates developing a website that considers, or even caters, to the mobile phone and tablet.