John McKown: President of Delaware.Net, Inc.
Adobe invited me to give and advanced web design presentation live online, and it happened today at noon EST. There were over 1200 attendees. The presentation will be available on-demand on the Adobe web site in about a week. I demonstrated how Delaware.Net is using the latest Adobe Dreamweaver and ColdFusion tools to build Web 2.0 web sites.
Blogs are continuing to explode in popularity. In a recent post, I explained why you need a blog, and how to set one up. If you aren’t familiar with blog software and what it is for, then you should read that post first. I also explained some of the pitfalls and potential misuses of your blog in another post. With this article, I want to give a bigger picture for folks that need a web site quickly, and who are considering blog software to run their ENTIRE web site. There ARE cases where blog software can work as the main web site for a business under rare circumstances, and I will go over this as well.
2007 is our best year ever for R&D
In late 2006 and into 2007, I hired a bunch of new talent for Delaware.Net, and we also improved our internal web development process greatly. This was due to customer demand for more responsiveness from us, and I am happy to say that we achieved this goal. The new team and our business plan is literally transforming our company and taking us to a whole new level.
I market socially in local networking groups, national trade shows, local trade shows, and here on my blog. To do that much marketing, I have to expose some of my techniques and secrets behind online marketing and what works. That being said, it takes a LOT more than a couple of tricks to be successful with your online marketing. A good example is blogging.
One of the biggest (if not THE biggest) challenges in building a new web site for a client, is getting quality written content for the web site that is provided by the client. Jason Cockerham, a web developer at Delaware.Net, just wrote a good post about this in the Delaware.Net blog.
We just installed ColdFusion 8 on some new servers that arrived this week.
Dreamweaver CS3
Adobe recently released their CS3 suite, and we upgraded our installations of Dreamweaver around the office. Overall I really like the improvements that I see.
Our new creative team celebrated the completion of the MonsterRacing.com web site by taking a ride in Monster’s NASCAR racing cars. Monster was very pleased with their new web site so they invited our team out for a day to experience what their program is all about. Jason Cockerham, Creative Developer at Delaware.Net said “1 word…. AWESOME. Better than any roller coaster that I have ridden“. Shannon Sierra, Graphic Designer at Delaware.Net said; “The staff at Monster Racing was great and very attentive. They take special care in making sure that everyone understood that, as thrilling as the ride would be, that it was also safe, so everyone was relaxed and comfortable with the experience.”
I’m really proud of the new Wesley College web site, which was just re-designed by Delaware.Net and which will launch this Thursday (March 22, 2007) on the College’s “Founder’s Day”. We’ve also designed a new HTML Flash mass email that will go out to the College’s mailing list. Wesley College is a local university whose web site really needed some help. It consisted of thousands of static web pages that were designed in Microsoft FrontPage. That’s right - FrontPage.
I recently joined this organization because they promote the education of future web professionals. This interests me because we occasionally hire new graduates and I think it would be helpful to the profession if companies like us that do this work every day could somehow help educators understand the latest trends in the industry.
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