Orange Cat Studio Website Now Live

We just launched Orange Cat Studio's new website at orangecatstudio.com.

The primary hurdle Laura, the company owner, wanted to overcome with the previous site was the inability for her to add/edit site content in order to keep the site fresh. Laura had to rely on a technical administrator to update the site content. Laura's new site uses the SohoLaunch Content Management System which will allow Laura to easily modify the website content as she sees fit.

The new site includes a photo gallery of Laura's work with high-resolution images allowing visitors to really see how intricate Laura's work really is.

An embedded Orange Cat Studio Blog was also incorporated which will provide Laura with a feature-rich blogging resource to talk about events and works in progress.

Bytown Railway Society's Restoration Report Blog

As a member of the Bytown Railway Society's Dirty Hands Club, I am a recipient of the group's broadcast email which is sent twice weekly to all interested recipients on the railway equipment restoration projects. Should the report editor be unavailable, another editor takes up the reins.

These reports are an excellent resource and insight into the volunteer group's activities. However, using email in this manner limits the public's visibility of the group's projects (one must be on the email distribution list), and searching for information in past email reports relies on someone having an archive of all past restoration progress reports.

To increase public visibility and maintain a project report archive we created a Dirty Hands Club web blog  for BRS where the report editor simply submits the weekly reports by bcc-ing an appropriate blog email alias. Over time, past weekly reports will be posted to the blog.

Welcome to my blog

Well, it was inevitable. After using blogger to fulfill a need with a volunteer group I belong to, I began looking at using Blogger for a client, and figured I might as well create a blog of my own.