With the mass adoption of smart phones, the landscape has changed forever on how people prefer to investigate on the web. As you can imagine "investigate" has a multitude of meanings and applications depending on your business. First let's start with some eye opening facts about usage on how many people are using their smart phones as a primary device for collecting data.

This year, Unleashed Technologies sent me, Mike, and Ryan to DrupalCon 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. At the conference, just about every aspect of Drupal was covered in some way, be it the new release of Drupal 7, the upgrade path from Drupal 6 to 7, newly contributed modules, core updates, and the opening of the development branch for Drupal 8.

The landscape of open source and the available technologies continues to change on a monthly (if not daily) basis. Trying to keep track of it all can be a bit overwhelming as you'll quickly run into an unbelievable amount of solution offerings that are free for your continuing development and site management. Unlike many other sectors of technology the web continues to be evolving so fast that all solutions are not created equal with small differences to focus on particular functionality or business verticals.

One of the most common things I see amongst clients is there dissatisfaction with a current provider of some sort in the web space. This could be hosting, development, design, account management, and it doesn't stop their. One of the major issues I believe that facilitates this issue is that partners or vendors are "cobbled" together to take care of a single aspect of a project.

I wanted to put up a blog post for everyone that's made the investment  into a new corporate website and isn't sure if it's producing the ROI they expected on purchase. The first rule of thumb to remember is a website much like a web application, is never done. It continues to grow and evolve as your business changes or you get additional feedback from your client base. The purpose of any website (especially in the small to mid sized businesses) is to usually automate resource sharing with clients and convert new visitors to clients.

During our last team meeting one of our developers ran into this simple checklist for companies and web firms rolling out new projects. The tool is simply designed to provide you with a comprehensive check list of items that any small business needs before launching their new web presence.

I see it all to often. A new project starts (of any size) and everyone is fired up. The staff is excited, the clients are thrilled to get a new web presence that accurately portrays their business, and everyone is looking towards the future of making the web a central point for terrific ROI. Then it happens...

The designs are approved, functionality is completed, everything is done except for the content....

On Wednesday, June 9th, 2010, it was publicly announced that Unleashed Technologies, LLC would be the strategic partner for Automated Graphics Systems (AGS) located out of White Plains, MD for co-location, web hosting, and web management. The strategic partnership came about after a synergistic relationship was found between the two organizations.