Chaostructured Services Showcase: Gilbert Rocks

Having a good web presence is a key element for artists who want to showcase their work and interact with their fans. And it really doesn't take much more than a web site and a Facebook fan page.

Gilbert Rocks is a professional musician, songwriter and singer who creates great music for kids. Although his focus right now is on getting the first full cd completed, his ultimate goal is to bring music back to kids in a tangible way. More and more funding for music in schools is being cut and less children are being exposed to the real joys of creating music, singing and performing. Gilbert wants to find ways to replace what used to be a given in schools and to give kids a good musical foundation.

(click on image to go to the web site)

You can click on the image above to go check out Gilbert's web site or click here to go to his Fan Page.

We had fun working on this site and still have some additional cool things to add to it.

As Gilbert would say: Rock On!

ChaoStructured Services Showcase: MeRob Concepts

Happy New Year!

We've been away for a bit, but we're still chugging along and getting work done. We hope the new year brings all of you (and all of us) health, wealth and happiness. To start Slam's new year off on a great note, we're showcasing the most recent web site we designed and built.

MeRob Concepts provides both architectural and woodworking services. Rob Freeman (AKA MeRob) has over 25 years of experience working for structural design firms as a senior level manager responsible for Technical & Engineering departments and processes. He's won the "Innovator's Hall of Fame" award twice from a national engineered wood products manufacturer. Over the years, he has also created many custom-made pieces of furniture or built-ins that focus on creative designs that make the best use of the available space.

(click on the image above to view the site)

Architectural Services:

• Floor plans from scratch or modifications to plans bought online.
• Conversion of plans to PDF or CAD formats.
• Redraw service to transfer hand drawn plans to electronic format.
• Blueprints printed at your local blueprint shop.

And...the coolest one of all:

• 3D Walkthroughs

Woodworking:

Sometimes it's hard to find exactly what you're looking for when it comes to furniture and storage for your kid's room. Just the right size toybox, table or storage shelf, in the exact color you want, can make all the difference in the world. MeRob excels at making those unique, one-of-a-kind, items at reasonable prices.

ChaoStructured Services Showcase: Morality√Check

Companies are exposed to many different types of complaints when employees are involved. Employees can help drive a company forward or causes problems. Company employees are the eyes and ears on how things are really operating at the company level.

The Morality√Check Hotline system is an objective tool and unbiased consultative outside support system that delivers results to aid in the vulnerable areas that are costly to most companies, such as:

√ Sexual Harassment
√ Drug Abuse
√ Unsafe Working Conditions

√ Employee Theft
√ Vandalism

“One Call Can Save Thousands of Dollars”

(click on the image above to learn more about Morality√Check)

ChaoStructured Services Showcase: Mat Street

Mat Street - artist, writer, comedian, actor, director. Basically anything that requires creativity, but doesn't include having a regular 9-5 office job or a lot of manual labor.

Matstreet.com was a joint creation between Slam Industries & Mat Street and is subject to frequent changes. The cool stuff is ours; anything you don't like was done by Mat Street. :)

(Click on the image to go directly to Mat Street's web site)

If you're looking for a cool t-shirt, be sure to check out the Store. Mat Street's t-shirts are created using eco-friendly Waterbase Screenprinting (ink soaks directly into the thread). You can't even feel the printing.

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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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.