You are an expert in your field and focused on your passion, and you need to feel confident that you are choosing the right tools for your team to be successful. Email has become a primary communication tool across all industries, but to some it can feel like you need...
Fresh off the heels of our other Orchard Module release, the Orchard MailChimp Module, we're releasing another module centered on email newsletter management - the Atilus Orchard Constant Contact Module. Similar to the MailChimp module, it allows you to connect your Orchard website to constant contact and use the best features...
A while back we were tasked with a combination of things: Develop a new large-scale site complete with CMS Transitioning an existing client with a major online presence to something that could better handle their administrative, payment processing, and e-product inventory Find a tool that met our and our clients' business...
At Atilus we realize that great web design and development is a balance of many disciplines and the web is a unique place where – what I do as a developer, or how I setup a server - can affect the businesses we work with. And with Google and other...
About once or twice a month I get asked to give a ballpark estimation for a project cost and timeframe, typically for a general business website or a web application with user-generated content. Those requests usually come after a brief conversation that sounds a little bit like this: “Hey man,...
As the lead developer at Atilus I get asked to use all kinds of tools, and have built and used an array of tools to build a site, provide functionality, and get a job done. Occasionally clients come to use with their own tool(s) in mind, but more often than not...
We need speed. Speed's what we need. Greasy, fast speed! And we don't need to go chasing chickens to get it either. In this post I highlight some of my personal opinions on ASP.NET MVC Benefits. Speed ASP.NET MVC brings faster performance on the client side as well as in...
As a service organization we often ask ourselves how can we better manage service quality. The following are our ideas on bettering negotiating client and customer service relations in a service business. Effective management of your clients’ expectations is crucial for delivering optimal quality of work, which is important for...
As a business person in internet technology, I spend a lot of time in front of a computer screen and sitting down. There really aren’t very many alternatives to this – technology advances and advances until finally it comes full circle - and you still end up where you started....
