Data-Scribe Blog

We want to wish our clients happy holidays!

Over the past 6 years, we've worked with close to 175 nonprofit and small business clients. And we've built long-term relationships with a select group. After recently reviewing our Web site, we realized that it wasn't expressing all of the great things that we wanted to reflect about us as owners and our company overall.

We launched the WriterGal Network site last night at our October membership meeting and received a great response. It's always fun to have Web site launch parties. Thanks to everyone who volunteered to make this a reality!

Leila co-founded the WriterGal Network five years ago. It's wonderful to see how it's grown into a strong, collaborative resource of communications professionals. Now we're able to let the world know about us.

We often see requests from folks looking for assistance with something on their Web site. Usually they've been working with another developer and now need someone to pick up the pieces.

The title of this blog post is an all-too-common phrase that we see in these requests. The requestor is indicating how much they are willing to pay per hour and how long it should take. While we would take issue with the hourly rate, that's a topic for a separate blog posting!

We have redesigned and relaunched our Social Mission Web Host Web site and services. For those of you that aren't familiar with it, Social Mission Web Host is our sister site where we offer hosting services and offered our nonprofit grant in the past.

You'll find:

Prior to bringing on a team member for one of our projects, we go through a qualifications process. This generally includes reviewing past work, contacting their past clients or employers, quizzing them on their knowledge, and getting a feel for their communication style.

While reviewing the resume of a potential team member, we came across an interesting project. She referred to it as a "Testimonials Project". During the interview, we asked her to explain what type of work she did.

For Immediate Release

The architectural firm Studio Southwest Architects (http://www.studioswarch.com) has teamed up with Web development firm, Data-Scribe®, to re-energize their Web presence with an implementation of a content management system (CMS) and a redesign. Studio Southwest Architects was founded in 1984 and is a regional award-winning firm, whose practice focuses on cost-effective, sustainable design.

AEC firms and Web firms have one main thing in common, they have to design or build something in order to please the client. The way something looks and feels is subjective, making it difficult to please everyone. As we reviewed some of the comments we've heard when building sites, we realized that A/E/C firms have heard similar ones from their clients.

1. "I really like purple. Is there a way that you could work that in?"

Over the past few years, CiviCRM, Drupal, and Joomla! have undergone some version changes that affect the look and feel as well as the backend structure of the software.

• Drupal 4.x is no longer supported
• Joomla! 1.x will no longer be supported after July 22, 2009
• CiviCRM is only accepting issues for version 2.1 and higher

When considering upgrading your software, you may have heard us utter the familiar phrase, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." There are times when it doesn't make sense to upgrade right away. Here are a just a few:

We're opening our successful "How-To Hour" sessions to the world.

Having had a great response to last month's series, we have decieded to open our "How To Hour" sessions to the public. 

The sessions are led by our experienced developers, using demonstration copies of the Web site systems. You drive the agenda by sending us your questions beforehand. Plus, you’ll learn how other nonprofits and small businesses use the same systems.

For current clients the cost is $0 >>> FREE!

Non-clients can join the Webinar for $39.