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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 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.

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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.

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?"

We're kicking off June with a new site and new services.

Our Web site has a new design and layout to make it easier to find what you need.

We've restructured our Web services with a focus on planning. Our new service is called Data-Scribe's Site Starter. It includes strategy meetings, a visual outline, and a written plan for your Web site project.

Classes run from 9:00a to 4:00p and will be held in central Albuquerque (unless otherwise noted). Also, classes include a training manual and use of a laptop.

March 3rd: Microsoft Project 2003 Level 1 - registration closed
March 5th: QuickBooks 2007/2008 Level 1 - registration closed

March 10th thru 12th: Small Business Web Site Bootcamp (Drupal and Joomla!)

All classes run from 9:00a to 4:00p and include a training manual and use of a laptop.  Classes will be held in central Albuquerque.

February 3rd: Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Level 1
February 4th: Microsoft Excel 2007 Level 1

February 10th: Microsoft Project 2007 Level 1
February 11th: QuickBooks 2007/2008 Level 1

February 18th thru 20th: Nonprofit Web Site Bootcamp (Drupal and Joomla!)

February 25th thru 27th: Nonprofit CiviCRM Bootcamp

We will be hosting regular free seminars to introduce organizations to the world of Drupal and Joomla! for enhanced Web site capabilities. The seminar is called "A CMS Approach to Web Site Management - Joomla! and Drupal" and will be held from 11:30a to 12:30p Mountain Daylight Time on the following days:

August 1 - online

August 15 - Albuquerque

September 1 - online

September 15 - Albuquerque

Learn more about the seminar

At what point does a custom design become an issue in the development of a Web site or content management system? Are custom designs even an issue in the world of development anymore?

With all the ready-made templates out there, you would think not. Don't fool yourself; there are plenty of issues wrapped around the ideologies of design and the Web. More recently the term "design" has become more fluid across disciplines.