We’ve moved offices location! We are now located across from the Tampa Convention Center downtown. We felt downtown was more suited to our company and our clients. A larger, more centrally located office was need to house the technological rocket ship that is Tranquil Blue. We are blasting off on our mission to be the best Tampa web design, search engine marketing, and design agency. Our focus on top quality web development and marketing is… Read More

Following the surge of popularity that social media has been getting for the last few years, Google launched Google+ — Google’s own social media network – on June 28^th, 2011. When it launched, the social networks importance with regards to affecting search results wasn’t that obvious (although it would not be surprising even if it was blatantly revealed then).

According to an Infographic from IdentyMe_[1], Google did spend a lot of money on building Google+,… Read More

Search engine optimization was always a complicated business, and more so, now, after all the updates that are happening regularly. The Panda and Penguin updates were real wake up calls to SEOs who thought they could get away with just about anything and everything; because of these updates they are more careful today, then they were ever before, but this does not mean that they don’t make mistakes.

Every SEO makes mistakes and they are… Read More

Tranquil Blue is happy to announce Sapphirerings.org as our latest development. The beauty of the site may have to do with the targeted product, but our design and development team are also to thank. Tranquil Blue is honored to be the creator of the branding for Sapphire Ring Co.

Starting with a simple eBay store, Sapphire Ring Co. has taken a big step with the unveiling of their… Read More

Thank you students of International Academy of Design & Technology for showing us your portfolios. Many showed great talent. Some very nice portfolios. It was interesting to see that although most had portfolios that they considered to be print based they all had examples of web site designs. It shows you how strong of a foothold the internet has on the advertising industry today. We hope to see some of this talent in the… Read More

Google sometimes puts $100 coupons live for potential new customers. You could potentially use 5 credit cards and open 5 accounts to test some Google Adwords keywords for free:

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If you’re not familiar with Google Adwords it’s the paid spots at the top of Google’s results page. They have a slightly different color background and they are also listed on the… Read More

Comparing the Google +1 to Facebook’s “Like” button is like comparing Superman to John Doe. Instead of showing friends online that you are just interested in something or someone, Google+ has combined web searches and individual circles to formulate personalized search results.

The Google network exposes websites with +1’s as much as three times more than sites that do not. By adding the +1 icon to your personal site, the header of your business website,… Read More

The Retro Baby site started to take its first steps with some simple pencil and paper sketches. Take a look into a designers thought process with these before and afters.

A Project like The Retro Baby is like giving your designer a free pass to Disney World. It’s not everyday you have a website that lets your designers imagination run wild. Our team and client could not have more more… Read More