Archive for September, 2008

When initiating a new business arrangement with a service provider, it’s crucial for the success of the project to first review the references of your proposed vendor. This is especially important in the web design and development world.  There are many horror stories of individuals and companies abandoning client projects for a bigger fish or shinier objects.  Most clients we work with are on their 3rd web developer due to lack of commitment, capacity or poor project management on the part of their service providers. Continue Reading

After 8 years in business and countless learning experiences, successes and failures - we are ready to completely open up to our readers, clients and industry friends. We want to bring a whole new level of transparency to you.  We call it Naked Blogging.

In the past, we have kept up with the industry standard by writing posts about other interesting people, companies and web apps. A lot of these posts could be thought of as a regurgitation of similar content delivered by pro-bloggers and networks, only with a slightly differing opinion.  These types of posts are not new or unique content nor do they provide insight into who we are, what we are doing and why you should care. Continue Reading

Everyone should be thinking by now that widgets need to play some part of your online marketing message. I have spoken on the topic several times to groups explaining the benefits of planning out your embeddable content strategy early on and treating it as one of your products rather than just a marketing campaign. Widgetbox is doing a live webinar this Thursday to explain how users can create custom widgets from their galleries. This is something you should check out if you are still getting your feet wet.

On Thursday, Sept. 11th from 2-3pm PDT learn more about the Custom Gallery products that let anyone create a fully customizable widget gallery from the largest selection of widgets on the web. Continue Reading