The Workshed offices will be closed from 10/11 - 10/18 for a company holiday. We’ll be back in the offices on Wednesday, 10/19. If you have an urgent need, please email help [at] workshed [dot] com with the subject line, “URGENT” and we will respond as quickly as possible. Otherwise, you can leave us a voicemail or e-mail info [at] workshed [dot] com and we will respond upon our return.
Workshed’s DNS provider is under a heavy DDOS attack as early a.m. on July 20th. We are keeping an eye on the situation and will provide updates as they arise. Currently, DNS for web sites and email on a portion of the web sites we host will be affected and may experience periodic downtime.
Yes, that’s right, we have moved to a new (well, sort of old) office space! Workshed is now located in the Clara St. Building, on NE Birch St. We are directly above Caffe Piccolo and next door to Furman Pictures (who is, coincidentally, in our old space from when we used to be in this building a few years ago—it’s a long story). We’re looking forward to working at our new space and sharing it with the Camas Farmers Market and the Downtown Camas Association. Feel free to give us a call and make an appointment to stop by and see the new digs!
In celebration of our 14th year in business, we’re taking a vacation! That’s right, the Workshed team is going to take a break from 2/26 - 3/6. During this time, we will not be taking calls or responding to e-mails unless it’s an absolute emergency. We’ll be back in the office on 3/7 and will catch up on requests and correspondence as fast as we can. In the meantime, we hope you’re having an excellent 2011 so far!
So, we have good news and sad news today. Good news is that we have a new employee as of last Wednesday. Everyone, meet Mr. Matt Imus. Matt’s our new go-to guy and he brings with him a strong background in interactive design. We’re pleased to have him aboard and we’re sure you’ll be pleased to work with him. You can check out his personal site here. Welcome aboard, Matt!
The sad news? Well, it’s not often in this industry that an employee hangs around for more than a year or so. Let’s face it, Interactive work can have high turnover. Jason Bennett was our first employee, ever. He worked with me when Workshed was still a home-based business, became our art director and oversaw the design and development of sites and projects for Subaru, The JGS Forward Thinking Museum and the re-branding of Lacamas Community Credit Union. Jason’s been our rock for four-plus years now. While we’re sad to see him go, we are excited for him and the new adventures he’s going to seek. And not to fret too much: he’ll also be contracting for us for awhile. Jason, we appreciate all you’ve given to Workshed over the years and hope you feel equally rewarded by your time spent here.
And to leave on a positive note: keep your eyes out for a fresh new look and feel for the Workshed web site as well as new hosting options. We promise, it’ll be cool.
Workshed had an extreme stroke of luck and landed some free office furniture from a very kind person over the weekend. Take a look at our before and after photos and let us know what you think.
Workshed recently completed an ambitious project for Seattle-based interior designer, Kathy Banak, and her custom line of Paints and Fabrics, Authentic Home. Kathy approached Workshed wanting to unify her online brand, expand her offerings and move to a CMS-based platform to ensure scalability and ease of growth.
Workshed worked closely with Authentic Home over the course of four months to establish a strategy for linking a network of web sites together visually, strategically and technically. Today, we finally get to see the results of everyone’s hard work as she officially announces her new sites.
The Authentic Home Network of sites is comprised of a content-managed Interior Design-focused site that promotes the services Authentic Home has to offer, a blog site that allows Kathy to keep her clients informed and share her expertise on Interior Design and last, but not least, a fully-featured e-commerce site that allows her to sell her custom line of interior and exterior paints, as well as custom fabric selection. The key to Authentic Home’s store is the ability for customers to see and purchase paint and fabric in moods, which are pre-matched sets of colors and patterns that match certain moods.
Workshed leveraged open source technologies for the back ends of these sites, settling on the highly flexible and extensible Concrete5 CMS framework for the interior design site, the tried and true WordPress for the blog and Magento for the e-c0mmerce site. These technologies allow us to provide Authentic Home with a search engine friendly, easily manageable and extensible framework for the growth of not only Authentic Home’s Internet presence, but also for the growth of its business.
Workshed is proud to have been a part of this project and we look forward to seeing Authentic Home settle into its new home(s) on the Internet.
Our offices will be closed on Thanksgiving day and Friday. If you should need urgent assistance, please call 360-833-2901 x1 or email us at support (at) workshed dot com.
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