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Square RED reader
We absolutely love this story. Square readers have transformed the cash register experience in the early-adopting Bay Area, eliding the purchase of expensive cash register systems for many small businesses. Now there's a way to add AIDS awareness to your Square reader while donating to (RED). Purchasing this special red reader is a donation in itself. Plus, the reader makes donation fast and...
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"All I wanted to do was order a pizza, and I couldn't find the phone number." said T324's owner David Daniels. He was hoping to call directly to the Albany location of a popular local pizza company, and when he loaded the company's site on his phone, he couldn't find it. The site's text was red on a black background, hard to read in a car at night. The local company...
At David's recent What I Wish I'd Known Before I Built My Website talk, it was clear that business owners are concerned about making their sites SEO friendly. Even if they weren't sure what SEO is, the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce members at the lunch were worried about it and how the ranking of their site affects their business. We talked previously about how important it is to...
Last week T324 owner David Daniels gave a Learning Lunch, "What I Wish I’d Known Before I Built My Website", at the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce. The conference room was standing room only, because although business owners come in many flavors of tech savvy, they all know mistakes are expensive. The introduction to the talk includes a round-robin of questions about the needs and concerns of the...
The first question a walk-in client here at the T324 office usually asks is, "How much does a website cost?" We wish we had a quick one-size-fits-all answer to that question. Does the walk-in client want a single page personal website or a seventy-five page e-commerce site that gets fifty thousand visits a day? Does he or she want a generic design from a commercial template or a custom design...
Here's a news story about the state-of-the-art Drupal ecommerce website T324 has just completed for extreme value retail giant 99 Cents Only. This great site redesign allowed Senior Project Manager Brian Nowell to really flex his Drupal muscles, in some cases implementing tools and coding techniques so new they were being released during the project. Advanced functionality means the site is...
T324 is an active member of the Emeryville Chamber of Commerce, a wonderful, lively local business organization. The Emeryville Chamber does a monthly series of breakfast events called Chamber University, where the leaders of local businesses can share their specialized expertise. Next Thursday May 10, David Daniels, owner of T324, is giving a presentation called "Think Globally, Network Locally...
Starting web site and ecommerce overhaul for Kathy Kamei Designs (at www.kathykamei.com) to support their new business strategy. Wonderful jewelry if you haven't see it!