One of the elements I added to the Crowd Favorite web site is a bottom section footer. This is part of my mullet design of the site: business in front, party in the back (or at the bottom in this case). The top of the site is a little more corporate and traditional, the bottom…
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One of the challenges of renaming King Design to Crowd Favorite was how exactly to handle transitioning from kingdesign.net to the new crowdfavorite.net web site. I think I’ve come up with a reasonable solution that covers both people and search engines. It was important to me not to create a jarring or confusing experience for…
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Crowd Favorite will use crowdfavorite.net. Is that your final answer? Having changed my mind twice in the last 72 hours, I’m happy to say: yes, dammit! 🙂 When I first decided on Crowd Favorite as my business name, I saw that the .com was taken and was okay using the .net. Of course I registered…
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The discussion around which domain name I should use for Crowd Favorite (both offline and online in the comments and on Twitter) has been very interesting to me. We’re down to two clear finalists: crowdfavorite.net crowdfave.com and lots of folks are making excellent points. Let me hit some of the highlights. The crowdfavorite.net supporters generally…
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I am very pleased to announce that King Design is now Crowd Favorite, Ltd. I have been doing business under the “King Design” moniker since 1997. When I started, I was offering web design and hosting services. I’ve long since graduated to software, hosted web products and services, user interface design and consulting along with…
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I spent today in Boulder meeting with several of the TechStars groups. As a mentor I’m basically a resource they can bounce ideas off, get feedback from and use to network. I hope I was successful in providing this to the groups I met with today. I look forward to seeing their progress next time…
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Last week King Design‘s staff grew by 100% when Eric Miller accepted my offer to come on board1. Eric will be working on all sorts of fun stuff, but one thing we’re focusing on is expanding the amount of custom development consulting work King Design does – particularly custom WordPress development. There is a lot…
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When I decided to offer phone support as a premium support option from King Design I had to set up phone service that would work the way I needed it to. I’ve been using a OneBox account for this, and I’ve been quite pleased at the way it’s worked out. My requirements: A toll-free number.…
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Since I launched my King Design premium support options and listed a phone number on the support page I’ve, of course, gotten a number of phone calls from folks who have pre-sales questions about Tasks Pro™ or Tasks™ but have not purchased a support token. It’s a somewhat tough situation. On the one hand, I…
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I’ve created a little feedback form that I’m sending to clients once I’ve completed their job. Nothing fancy or formal, just an opportunity for me to get some feedback and for them to share anything they’d like me to know. I sent my first one last week. Here is the e-mail: Hi Joe– In an…
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During the last few months I’ve been getting a lot of inquiries about custom development – way more than I can handle. It’s time to raise my rates again. The new rates are listed on the King Design development page. Note: The new rates apply to new projects, I’m not retroactively changing the rate on…
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As I mentioned previously, I now own the tasks.biz domain. I didn’t go looking for it, I was approached in late 2005 by the fellow who owned the domain asking if I’d be interested in buying it. My reaction was basically: I don’t need it now, but it seems like something that could be useful…
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One of the other changes I made to the King Design web site recently is the addition of selected content from this blog in various places. At the moment, I’m pulling in recent posts in my Tasks Pro™ category into the sidebars of the Tasks Pro™, Tasks™ and Tasks Jr. pages, and the recent posts…
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With the 1.7 release, I’ve moved the primary home of my Tasks Pro™ product from: http://www.taskspro.com to: http://crowdfavorite.net/tasks-pro/ I thought it might be interesting (instructive?) to review the reasons for this, and how I got into the situation in the first place. 🙂 When I launched alexking.org back in 2002, I put up some of…
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The King Design web site is going down for just a bit while I do updates. I’ll update this post when it’s back. It’s back.