Well its been nearly 2 years since us 2 freelancers decided to club together and start up our IT Software Solutions company and things have progressively got better and better.
We are still working on bread and butter websites and applications, as well as moving into some technologies that personally interest us.
We should be rewriting our website soon. One thing that we had the website for was to innitially give us some web presence and give me something to test Search Engine Optimisation with. Over the time we have done loads of work and great things for other people's websites but alas we have left ours looking like a drab home made list of qualifications and customers (which hasnt been updated either).
We have also gained some very artistic flash developers who have taught us a thing or two about making a website desireable to use.
From all of this knowledge and understanding where we want to go we now have ideas to make us a super duper dedicated management server system that will take care of all of our source control, and backups, as well as project management and client feedback systems, as well as hosting a nice user friendly pretty looking website.
Being a firm fan of ASP.NET it will work in that but I have also been working alot in flash and combining flash objects into my ASP.NET environments. I am now getting rather intrigued by all of the hype that is surrounding Silverfish by Microsoft and seeing exactly what that can do. I believe a website with some of that plugged in can look very slick while being able to offer some very technical tools. I wonder what our developers will think of trying to animate using Silverlight rather than Flash but that will be a hurdle I would rather cross sooner than later. The fact that you can breakpoint Silverlight and run it as a project in a web solution in Visual Studio makes it so much easier for a solution than trying to run web service calls or flash remoting from a flash application.
Hopefully the new site should be up and running before the end of the year to give us a solid platform to impress customers with as of 2008.
2 comments:
Hmmm, seems cool.
Joe joestain13@yahoo.com
Looking back on this, I think I will wait on learning Silverlight (not silverfish heheh).
But I have heard reports that the interface isnt quite there yet, and people arent taking it up.
Microsoft is on about rewriting their own website in it to push it, but the take up on it isn't as quick as I first thought.
I wanted to redesign our own website and utilise it, but to be honest that pop up to install Silverlight when a user first visits our site might actually put users off looking around it, so it would hurt rather than help market us.
I will stick with flash and webservices for now.
Perhaps give it 6 months and then take another look.
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