Today’s the day! Brad and I will be demoing our newly improved BlueInk CMS at the GSATC’s Tech After 5 event tonight. We’ll be in the “Startup Zone” with a Mac and PC to show of BlueInk’s new interface and features.
We look forward to seeing you tonight.
Tomorrow the GSATC will be hosting their third Tech After 5 event in downtown Greenville, SC. BigBlueHat will be there with the newly redesigned, overhauled, and greatly improved BlueInk CMS.
People who use BlueInk regularly love it, but have often mentioned that it would be nice to see the web site while they were working on it, rather than switching back and forth between and administration area and the live web site. Well, as of BlueInk 2.0, you’ll see your site while you edit it!
BlueInk will now be a smallish bar across the top of your web site giving you access to your site’s pages and content. Below that, you’ll see your web site populated with your content. If you don’t like where a certain content item is, you can drag it to a new location within your design. No more black on white content previews. What you see (other than the buttons and such) will be exactly what you get. Pretty slick!
If you want to do more than read my glowing prose, please visit us at the GSATC’s Tech After 5 event tomorrow night. There’ll be plenty to see.
Register online for the free Tech After 5 event.
If you’re not using Firefox yet, a new version (3.0) will be available next Tuesday (June 17th). Now’s your chance to switch to the world’s best browser. You can pledge to download the new version of Firefox and (hopefully) be a part of setting the world record for greatest number of people to download software in a single day.
If you’re gutsy, give the Firefox 3 Release Candidate a try. It’s faster and more user friendly than ever.
Well kids, it looks like Google drove by sometime in March and took pictures of our building (and probably yours)!
If you’ve not tried Google Maps Street View, you should. It’s something akin to playing a video game, but without the sound effects or plot line. Though, if you need more of a plot line, you can drive a car around Google Maps as well. You’ll have to plan your destination, though. Now imagine that proof of concept “game” with street view attached. Good stuff.
Google, Yahoo!, Apple, and Amazon continue to increase the value of web-based tools and very often provide robust tools for getting that data in and out of their systems. We have plans for integrating many of these services into BlueInk. For now, though, enjoy driving through Greenville (or Scotland for that matter) from your desk.
Designers love to design. Web manufacturers love to… build designs for designers!… among other things.
Over the past 4+ years we’ve found that XHTML and CSS have become second nature. Browser bugs and inconsistencies are much smaller bumps in the road these days. We know not everyone enjoys writing code as much as we do, so we thought we’d pitch in and help.
In the last few weeks we have done four sites for three different design firms. They sent us Adobe PhotoShop or Adobe Illustrator files and we sent them back working web sites—and averaged less than 5 days on the turnaround time!
We enjoyed the pilot program so much, we decided to set this up as a full service for web designers the world over.
If you’re a web designer who prefers designing to coding, or who would rather not be up late weeknights because “certain browsers” aren’t cooperating, or if you’re just plain tired of angle brackets, we’d love to help out.
We’ve posted the basic pricing information and instructions over at our Web Development page. We’ve also got an online order form to simplify the purchase process.
To see the outcome of the pilot program mentioned earlier, check out the screenshots below—you can click them to visit the finished sites:
