NTice Blog

We recently finished rebuilding serveral military websites for national direct marketing based in Atlanta. During the first phase of the project we are implementing a total site redesign for 10 of the major websites in the National Direct Marketing web ring. We used wordpress as a content management tool to allow NDMS to more easily make changed to their major sites with little or no programmer intervention. The sites were also made more search engine friendly and new content was added. Some of the sites we rebuilt were usnavy.com, navy.org, army.net, airforce.net, militarypay.org, soldier.net and several others. In December we are planning to add new content and continue updating the NDMS military web ring.

I work alot with a graphic design company in St. Louis and they are great. They send me new and interesting projects quite often and here is a great example. The website BetterAnimalsShowSeries.com is a site we built about a year ago and have been gradually adding too since then. This site was built for Land O’ Lakes and has everything we could budget into it. The site has podcasts, great custom administration tools, databases of user and contest winners, user generated content, and great advertising etc. This project was so well done the client wanted to convert many of their other sites to a similar format or just fold them into this site.

I have so much work developing software (currently a new point of sale system) and websites (too many to count or name) that I feel really needed at the moment. When your a small business owner / operator your day never ends. Just during this blog entry I had one client call and one job offer and it is after 9pm. Loving your work is the only way you can exist in this business. Some days I sit down at my computer at 7am and don’t look up until midnight. Developing software and websites is alot like working soduko puzzles. You try and try and when something fits it all flows together and feels complete.

Getting a new blog started takes some time and forethought. You need to know all of the technical information like hosting and software to use. You will also need some ideas about how your want your blog to look. You don’t need to be a graphic designer or know webdesign in order to produce a sharp looking blog. Most types of blog software have some built in templates that are an excellent start. Then you need to have a solid idea you want to write about. After all, a blog is only as good as its content. If you don’t really have anything to say then there isn’t much point in starting a blog. Everyone has opinions so you should start by looking for something you are interested in and have some knowledge about. You should always try to keep your blog postings under say 500 words unless you just can’t help it. This takes the press off of writing large expansive texts that can begin to ramble.

Welcome to the New Madrid Technology Blog. Here we will discuss web design, software development, network administration, and other technical subjects. Thank you for your interest.