Archive for May, 2009
At a shareholder’s meeting this weekend, a few of us were talking of the emerging “new cool” among the business elite. In the past, he who was most connected won the prize of being viewed as the most successful. This was the guy with one of the first Blackberry devices. The woman who would check her email at 3am to respond to problems. The CEO who was never “in a meeting” when you called. This group was always plugged in, and their business reputations benefitted from it.
Last night I finally cracked a substantial issue I’ve had with the storefront on my company’s website: it didn’t work.
Jumping Duck Media’s website uses two fantastic third-party features, the Featured Content Gallery plug-in and the WP E-Commerce plug-in. Both of these plug-ins add special functionality to the content management system I use to run the website. The Featured Content gallery runs the fancy animated display on the front page. The E-Commerce plug-in runs, obviously, the store. Unfortunately for me (and several others), the two plug-ins don’t play nice together.
In general, I do branding and marketing work for three kinds of clients:
- Individuals
- Local small businesses
- Start-up companies
I realized today that I don’t include nearly enough graphics on my blog. For someone as visual as me, that’s a very bad thing! I know I hate to read word-heavy websites, and apparently I’ve been subjecting people to the same for a very long time. I have an evident “pain” that most of you probably share, yet I’ve ignored it entirely over the past … has it been two years already?
I had a conversation yesterday with another branding professional regarding websites. The chat went something like this: