Business Cards :)

They're so cool, they're hot ;)

Phonetics

Without using the technical phonetic alphabet, (because most visitors wont be able to read that) - we need to offer a transliteration of 'Shroggle'. Here are a few ideas...
Our main concern is that it has to sound the way we want it to, when read by any English speaker, whether US or UK, SA, Auzi or Canadian.... turns out to be quite a challenge.

[sh-rog-gl]
[shr-uh-g"gl]
[shr-gl]

Shroggle has a soft 'o' and a soft 'g'...

At the moment I'm thinking we might have to supplement with an audio file.

The Server

BTW. After all that fuss, we sent the server back to the jokers who had built it, (Servers Direct) and when they couldn't do the install, (finding broken and missing components among other things), we asked for our money back, and ordered another one from a second company, ABMX. They built installed and delivered a working server to the same specs in just over two weeks. It was finally installed at Switch and accessible on 4/29. Almost FOUR months after we initially received the first server. It was quite a journey!

Custom Build for a client

We have a client; and with it we have a spec that includes a good deal of functionality that works well for a phase two. We will be building out the existing Shroggle functionality to incorporate a number of new modules that add very significantly to the already impressive offerings. I'll share them with you as we complete them. But suffice to say that it will include more product oriented stuff, more rss stuff, and more e-commerce stuff ;)

Early Alpha

An early alpha is a wonderful thing. For the first time in half a year, i am able to allay that quiet dark fear that the programmers have grossly misunderstood what we need ;) ... or that our specs have overlooked some critical element of usability.

Of course its horrible to look at, and has more bugs than my garden, but i can't help but feel somewhat maternal towards it.... like the Jamie Ace movie says, "It has a face only a mother could love".

The completed functionality now includes: the registration pages, template selection, site creation, page creation, blog and forum creation, add an image, rtf editor, add a menu. The preview pages are a mess and we are still missing a couple of really fundamental visual items....

Yay progress.

M