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We’ve spent so much time pretending that we really are cool with this music industry lark that we’ve forgotten to mention the other stuff that is happening around here at the moment. SimpleWeb has some cool things afoot and we’re getting ready to test them.

The first thing that we’re getting ready is the new SimpleWeb website, the current site frankly, is piss poor. It was rushed and designed as a last minute job, which usually seems to be the case with small businesses of all types. We always seem to sort ourselves out last on the premise that there is always something ‘more important to do’. We all know that’s bollocks but we all seem to do it, so we’re in the process of remedying this. The new site is cleaner, leaner and shows off who we are and what we do.

Secondly we’re getting ready to beta test our “website and client manager”. We needed a way to manage clients and their clients, all of whom manage websites, email addresses, domain names, etc… There’s nothing worse than being a small agency or sole trading designer and keeping all of your client and web information in an excel spreadsheet and forgetting to update it, losing it, updating the wrong one, forgetting what changes you’ve made and countless other paths to client doom. So we’ve created a way to manage all of those things from one simple interface, while it’s primarily intended to look after SimpleWeb sites built and hosted by us, it can be used by anyone to keep track of what’s what in their website design business, all for free.

Testing begins next week once the basic stats module has been finished. We’ll then begin rolling it out to our existing clients and get as much feedback as possible. We’ll then start looking at changing the look and feel of the interface as currently it shares a striking resemblance to Basecamp, which is no bad thing in my book.