SiteCrafting, Inc.

Happy Halloween from SiteCrafting! Today we found a chicken in our office. Feel free to order him around.

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As a company brand evolves, it's often easy to forget about little things such as the email signature. The email signature, which appears at the close of a message, is usually where contact information exists, consisting of info like your name, title, dept, website, address, and phone number. I say "usually" because many people feel this is a spot to showcase a little bit about themselves. They do this with such things as banners, animated gifs, inspirational quotes, and even their photo.
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So, whenever I meet up with good friend of mine, Scott Schiller from Flickr, we often talk about geeky things such as Web Semantics and the "proper" way to mark up different things. I know there are a few of you out there who enjoy this topic so here is my question to you.

What do you think is the "proper" way to markup a blog comment in this image?

Depending on how well of a response I get I might be doing this more. Figured since the holidays are right around the corner and you all have been pretty good lately I could give you a free mini button set. :) Enjoy


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We all know that design and development firms are really run on caffeine. Coffee, energy drinks, tea, and even energy beers now. I usually can be found with 2-3 coffee cups on my desk throughout the week but I will never forget about one developer who I worked with. Each day he would purchase 3-4 drip coffees from Starbucks and then would stack the cups creating a wall about 5 layers high creating his own cubical wall.  It was all fine until one day when a few of them turned sour and his office buddy/management put an end to it.

What do you prefer to drink while working? I'm usually a fan of mochas or red bull. Have any ridiculous stories about coworkers caffeine habits?

Two weeks ago I had a chance to fly down to San Francisco and check out the Flickr HQ. What I found was a team and office culture that was extremely similar to what we have at SiteCrafting. If you have ever had a chance to visit our office I'm sure the first thing you noticed was how quiet it is. Just as in our office the flickr team rocks out with their headphones on too.

Here is a quick little Venn diagram comparing the two companies:



It was really cool seeing that all of the perks which make our company what it is comparable to the Yahoo funded Flickr group.

For the last 3 years I've worked on less and less "Brochure Sites" and more and more web applications. Clients have really taken it for granted as to what features a website should now have. Tag Clouds, CMS, Social Bookmarking, Send to Friend, Add as Friend, Digg It, Wiki and Blog are all things constantly being chanted by clients.

Don't get me wrong, there is a place for these features, but why do you need it all? How will a feature like this affect your company? What's the value add?  Luckily, I've worked for ethical companies that have helped mentor clients through the process to help determine what a client really needs.

We could charge a client an arm and a leg for things they don't need, but what good is that? We are not in the business to have our clients fall. In no way is that beneficial to our Partnership. Read more →