Thursday, March 11, 2010

ChaoStructured Services Showcase: PTA Web Site

The second example in our showcase is a simple and clean PTA web site for a local elementary school. By using the school's existing logo and school colors and gathering some pertinent information from the PTA group and the staff, we were able to complete this site within less than a week of starting the project.

The school's PTA group now has a web site that costs them nothing to host, significantly improves their ability to provide up-to-date information to parents and PTA members and is easy for them to maintain. We also set up a Twitter account and a Facebook Fan page, using the same look & feel for all of them.



http://twitter.com/TwinLakesPTA/

Twin Lakes Elementary - Official Page

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Monday, March 1, 2010

Slam's ChaoStructured Services

Although a good portion of our focus for the past year has been on building our flagship product, Woubie, we've also been working on developing our "ChaoStructured" services.

When we started the company, we intended to hire someone to build our web sites, so that we could focus strictly on the development of Woubie. We had the skill sets to handle what it took to build a program like Woubie, but we hadn't dipped our toes into the design pool. Yet. Then we found out that it would cost us upwards of $2,500 just for one basic web site and it wouldn't even cover everything that we wanted or needed. And since we wanted a company site and a Woubie product site, we quickly realized that it just wasn't going to happen.

So we learned how to do it ourselves. And let me tell you, it was a frustrating and hair-pulling process during which we frequently said, "huh?", "WTF?" and "Maybe if we try...". In the end it was worth it. We've learned several new skill sets and we're proud of the fact that we've literally built everything for our company ourselves. From our Slam logo to Woubie, every design element, web page, support process, tweet, blog, photograph, animation, video, etc was done by one of us.

While we were doing all of this we found that many writers, comedians, small businesses & NPOs would like to have a web presence and make use of social media sites to promote themselves and their business. But like us, they just can't afford to pay what it typically costs. Or, if they do pay to have one built, because of the way web sites are typically built and hosted, they're stuck paying more every time they want to update it.

So we began working on developing a way for those folks to have a well designed, branded web presence at a fraction of the typical cost, which they can maintain and update on their own.

The result is our ChaoStructured Services.

Over the next few weeks we'll be showcasing the sites we've built using this method and showing how easy it is to get your brand out there.

The first site in our showcase is for Freeman Solutions, Inc., a home renovation company with an excellent and well-deserved reputation for impeccable work. Click on the image below to go to the site.



P.S.
We're not a hosting company, a marketing company or SEO experts. But we do know some very talented people who are and would be happy to point you in their direction if that's the type of service you're looking for.