staying in touch – web style…
we’ve recently added some new features to the right side column of or web site. If you scrool down a little bit, you’ll see three pretty cool ways to stay in touch with us.
If you have skype installed, you can see whether or not we are on-line. If we are, you can simply click the button and we’ll start a Skype chat with you. You don’t need to know or really do much of anything. Just click the button.
If you are more of an AIM person, you can see whether or not we’re on-line, and if we are on-line, you can simply click the button to start an AIM chat.
Finally, if you more of a telephone person. You can easily call us 24 / 7 (of course we probably won’t pick up at say 3:00 AM). Click on the “Call Me” button, enter your phone number and name. Then, we will IMMEDIATELY call you (it’s really the computer calling you at this point). Once you answer, we’ll try to connect you to one of us. If we’re not available, we’ll send the call to voice mail.
It’s all pretty cool. And, it’s all a way we can stay in contact!
get a cluetrain….
I just finished up writing some of the text for the “why we do it” page. Thinking about the internet and what makes it something special, has served to remind me all over again that it really is all about relationships. Now that the internet has tons of bells and whistles, it’s really easy to get focused on all of that. But, the main thing continues to be and will always be people. People connecting with other people. Technology is simply the medium they use to connect.
Want to read more?
New Site Goes Live…
Ok, I know, there’s still some holes to plug. But, we decided to take the new site live and continue patching holes as we move forward.
Everything is still controlled inside of WordPress. So, as web deisgners, we’re pretty excited about using WordPress. And, although we’ve found it to be pretty simple and useful as a Content Management System, we still had to fall back to writing code by hand.
While that’s not a problem for us, we assume it would be for the average user. More thoughts as we move forward…
Thoughts on a new web-site
As I’m sure you’ve already noticed, I have been working on re-designing this site. Rather than just making it a better looking site, I thought I would go ahead and make it a project, a goal.
So, I decided to use WordPress – the defacto blogging software – as my entire web management system (usually called a Content Management System or CMS).
I’ve worked with several true CMS systems in the past – things like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal and mod-X). But all these systems seemed to be confusing and non-intuitive to me. And, if I seem to get confused by them, then end users, my clients will definately as well.
So, I started off on this project to see what it would look like to use WordPress – which meets my two goals: free and easy – as my CMS. As you can see, I’m getting a lot done. I’ll post back soon with my thoughts…
