After a couple weeks of hardcore work, the University of Pittsburgh - Graduate School of Public & International Affairs, GSPIA, has a new website and look.  GSPIA’s mission is to prepare leaders with the skills, vision and knowledge to build a better world. Founded on and committed to the values of public service, diversity and excellence, GSPIA provides preeminent research and educational programs in public and international affairs. With over 7,000 alumni worldwide, GSPIA’s collective mind makes a difference every day in careers spanning all sectors—public, private and nonprofit.

Needless to say I’m very happy with the website.  GSPIA certainly has a nice looking website which will present their message on the internet.

We recently redesigned the Allegheny County Sanitation Authority, ALCOSAN, website.  Sporting a DotNetNuke content management system (CMS), ALCOSAN now has a more robust way to keep their website up to date.  Their website features include a calendar system of upcoming events and recent news.  ALCOSAN provides wastewater treatment to 83 communities and processes 225 million gallons of wastewater each day.  To find out more about ALCOSAN please visite their website at www.alcosan.org.

After many years with a bland and dated looking site, the time has come for a breath of fresh air.  The Pittsburgh Northside Leadership Conference is a coalition of community groups and organizations designed to promote and enhance the quality of life.  The new website was built on the DotNetNuke CMS platform and gives the folks at NSLC the ability to keep their site fresh.  The website features a community calendar of events happening in the Northside.  For those looking to move into the Northside can use the Residential Housing page to locate featured housing in the neighborhood.  Please visit the Pittsburgh Northside Leadership Conference for more information.

After weeks of work on the Veritix website, the site is now live.  Veritix is the combination of Flash Seats and Vertical Alliance.  Veritix provides digital ticketing, event marketing, and relationship management applications to various sports and entertainment venues.  See more Veritix solutions on their website.   So what is digital ticketing?  Digital ticketing eliminates the need for traditional paper tickets.   Instead the purchaser simply provides a form of ID (driver’s license, credit card, etc) which allows the consumer to enter the event.  Nothing feels worse than showing up to an event and having forgotten your tickets.  Visit the Veritix website to find out more about digital ticketing. 

The Veritix website is built on the .NET platform using the 3.5 Framework and C# as the back end.

Being a web developer, I’m always looking for new insight into web development and technologies.  I came across two great articles the other day about Sign-up forms and how they are designed.  Sign-Up Form Design Survey Part 1 covers 2 major areas: Form Placement and Design.  Part 1 of the article covers Form Placement which also covers: How is the link to the sign-up form titled and Where is the link to the sign-up form placed. (more…)

With the recent facelift of the corporate Iron City Brewing Company website, a new micro site was launched to promote its new Augustiner product line.  With a catchy tagline and URL, it asks the question, “How do I GetSomeA?”.  The GetSomeA micro site is a fun departure from the “corporate” image presented by the ICB website.  The micro site is a lot more graphic intense rather than tradition HTML.  Once on GetSomeA.com, you can listen to the radio spots for Augustiner, view advertising, download AIM icon, and wallpaper.  Also while there, you can register for upcoming events and promotions.

On Monday, March 17, Iron City Brewing Company’s website underwent a dramatic facelift.  With the company recently coming out of bankruptcy, a new corporate web presence was needed.  The site was built using DotNetNuke’s content management system.  The DNN CMS features vast community support, development and adoption.  The use of the CMS system allows ICB staff to manage content on an immediate notice. (more…)

On Wednesday, 2/20/08, the AlphaLab website was launched.  AlphaLab was created to jump start the next generation of software, game design and Internet-related companies.  It provides these companies with funding, space, services, and advisors.  The goal is to rapidly accelerate the growth of these startup companies.  AlphaLab was created by Innovation Works.  AlphaLab is currently accepting applications for the 2008 Summer/Fall program.  This program will end March 31, 2008, so Apply Now.  If you want to learn more about what AlphaLab offers companies, click here.   If you still have questions, view the FAQs.

On Monday, November 13, the Bimuno website (www.bimuno.com) was launched.  This is my first dedicated international website launch, United Kingdom, and I’m pretty excited.  The Bimuno website uses the same database driven architecture as one my my previous websites (www.diabetesessentials.com).  So the next question is, What is Bimuno? (more…)

After finally getting approval for the newly designed Conversations with Chromax emails, I sent out emails on Tuesday, October 30th.  This email blast was sent to over 8300 registrations.  Multiple challenges arose on this not the least of which is time.

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