Welcome Lignumus.com to the web! This site was developed for woodcraft/artist Dan Broom. He creates beautiful objects, bowls, pens, bracelets etc using a lathe. He wanted a simple set up that would allow him to sell his work on-line. For Dan, we decided an Shop on Etsy and a website with a blog that linked to it would be the best option. He wanted to spend his time in the shop creating and not managing websites! We created the site and did some photo editing for Dan along with his logo and some social media graphics. This is an awesome resource… check it out!
News
Live Site: KC’s Restaurant & Pub
Site re-design was executed along with a physical renovation at KC’s Restaurant & Pub. This is the second site we created for KC’s, they are a very generous local business and now their new web presence will be working better for them. We provide, training, maintenance, design/development and art direction. Check it out at www.kcspub.com!
“Cathi created a very professional site for us. She takes the time to listen to our needs and offers suggestions where appropriate. Our restaurant has evolved and our site has evolved right along with it. Cathi has been instrumental with keeping KC’s front and center in the competition for customers.” – Jay Carney, KC’s Restaurant and Pub, Guilford, CT
Live Site: MJW EA & Company
This site was rebuilt on a new theme that is responsive in design. It displays beautifully on any screen size… it is mobile and tablet friendly now! We built their last site a few years ago. We also designed their logo, business cards and social media graphics. Those graphics have stood the test of time well and now their new site has some more dynamic functionality. The site is html5 and of course is built on the Genesis Framework. We provide the technical maintenance for them along with any staff training requests. It is social media integrated with custom forms and graphics etc… They are able to update their own site “in house” as it is a CMS built on WordPress – open source so, we all own it and we all contribute to making it better every day! How great is that?!
This is a very reliable and expert group of professionals – leaders in their industry! Check them out at www.MaryJoWalker.com
Sophie’s First Video Tutorial, Look For More In The Coming Weeks
Sophie has begun to produce her collection of tutorials that include screen-casts. Here is the first in a series of short instructional videos.
Some videos will be for beginners and some will feature more dynamic instructions to help you publish your content like a pro.
Enjoy.
The news from the studio… Fall Newsletter 2013
Greetings – Here is the link to the Fall Newsletter 2013. I would also like to share this link to The Be The Kite website… we had a terrific time and spent a full day there during literacy week. We read the book with every class ages K-4, we had some drawing instruction and a drawing activity. I photographed many of their drawing and have posted their work on the website in the Young Artist’s Gallery. It was a lot of fun, in fact the 4th grade classes even got to fly kites as the breeze picked up in the afternoon. 
We have been very busy here in the studio doing more membership websites, business cards & marketing materials, creative direction and consulting work. Look for some visual samples displayed here on the site in the coming week and until then please help us welcome the following groups LIVE to the internet: These sites are all mobile/tablet responsive, some have membership and monetize, some have dynamic slide shows, interactive event calendars, custom graphics and lots of quality branding and collateral materials to go along with their web presence (including social medias, email marketing campaigns and much much more). PS Intern Sophie has begun producing an awesome collection of tutorial videos for everyone too!
Goodster® has been updated and improved with mobile/tablet responsive design, new theme and awesome video content.
Additionally, here is a look at the shirts and bibs and mugs we were fortunate to have the opportunity to create for The Bluff 50K Trail Race last weekend too: Congrats to all of the runners and volunteers and especially the race director Jerry Turk! He really knows how to put on an outstanding event – all for preserving natural places in Connecticut and inspiring people to get outdoors! Well done everyone, we are fortunate to be a part of this amazing organization I love sponsoring it.
photo credits to Hillary aka SouperGirl, Jenny and Mr Bimble
Finally, we have finally gotten a new sign… 🙂
What’s New From the Studio, WordPress, Radio, Infographics
Matt Mullenweg: State of the Word 2013
Here are some fun facts!
- WordPress 3.6 will be available any day now
- WordPress celebrates its 10th birthday
- In the last year there were more than 2.5 times posts and comments than last year
- Last year there were over 46 million downloads of WordPress
- There were 147,000 downloads every day of the year
- There are 26,000 plug-ins in the WordPress directory
- There were 336 themes added- 2.3 times more than last year
Here are a few more fun facts!
- WordPress 3.6 will be called Oscar in honor of jazz musician Oscar Peterson
- 9334 requested plug-ins to WordPress and 6758 were officially added
- Use of WordPress across the worldwide web is up 2.2% to 18.9% of the top 10 million sites
- There were 3x more sign ups on mobile devices
- 3.6 will support native video- this is huge!
- 3.6 will support native audio- this is totally awesome!
- 3.6 will feature improved menus, auto-saves, revision control- very cool!
Maximizing your web presence and the radio show…
This week I had the pleasure of visiting the radio studio in New Jersey and the whole FYI team. We had our annual meeting and the show topic this month was “Branding, Identity, and Web Strategies.” Here’s a link to listen to the show on demand http://www.thenetworkingexchange.com/#!talk-exchange-radio/cylh– click on Listen to Tuesday’s Show- we were the third show recorded. Here’s a fun infographic from the blog and the show. Thanks to everyone for their hospitality!
Attention Clients: We will be rolling out all of our platform, plug-ins and website updates beginning next week. Please contact the studio directly if you need our services, we;d be happy to give you a quote or draft a proposal or share some advice and insight. 203-444-2172
“It’s how the world sees you”
Info-graphics, do you want one of your very own?
I am really loving the world of info-graphics. I would like to make more and I am ready to develop a great one for your business, program, organization or message. Here is a simple one we made for FYI Outsource Services. I work with a Jean Baliko, SEO, metrics, analytics and copywriter extraordinaire. We can create something really awesome for you. Contact me if you want the details. Also listen to the WTER show today at 3 for more tips from our team at FYI.
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Graphics, Biz Cards and Website Updated… FYI
Here is a look at FYI Business Consulting & Outsource Services’s new business cards, a simple info-graphic that was included in some marketing campaigns and a screenshot of the website. We recently updated the site with some design work and there will be some more content or copy-writing work completed there soon too. This is a dynamic group of various experts that work together to bring state of the art resources, advice and solutions to business both in house and on-line. I am proud to be part of what is developing here, if you need a cool info-graphic for your business – a simple one like this or something far more dynamic, please call me at 203-444-2172 or send me an email. I am excited to be offering these cool resources to clients now!
