July 2007: Autumn News.

The MANOVERBOARD Telegraph, No. 23.

Hello. Hope you're having a good, warm, or otherwise pleasurable Autumn.

MANOVERBOARD.com Relaunches

Our big news is that MANOVERBOARD—after a year of designing, writing, and developing—relaunched its site in April 2007. It was a big development for us, not least because the cobbler's son is now wearing shiny, new patent leather shoes. Moreover, the new website allows us to better showcase a strong selection of work in our portfolio and, I hope, it better explains our services, expertise, and passion for good design. If you have a chance, take a look at our testimonials throughout the website. I'm really very proud of them.

The site also added a number of new features like bill payment, easier Telegraph subscribing and unsubscribing, and a much clearer news section. Many, many thanks to everyone who contributed their thoughts and recommendations along the way.

Content Management for Websites

Since the start of the commercial Web, content management of websites has been a kind of holy grail. Adding content to a website without knowing HTML and the concomitant file transfer and maintenance technologies is not easy. For many of our clients, we act as their content management publishers; on a regular or semi-regular basis, text and images are carefully added to clients' sites for relatively little cost.

The full promise of content management has not yet arrived for most businesses and organizations, but, over the past few years, we've become fully expert at installing, configuring, and customizing an application called Movable Type. If you have regular website content that needs to be published and archived on your site—such as news, events, weblog entries, or newsletters—Movable Type could be the answer. This is a service that can be highly customized for each website. And, because of its ease-of-use, a Movable Type installation is a powerful way to keep your customers and audience informed and interested.

The New Telegraph

You might have also noticed that this newsletter looks a mite different than previous newsletters. This is because we've reverted back to a more pared-down format. Thanks to Microsoft's disappointing decision to use its Word software to render HTML newsletters in Outlook 2007, MANOVERBOARD (and every email newsletter design firm) is revisiting best practices and looking at new ways to communicate to clients and customers via email. If you're interested in learning more about email newsletters, please let me know. I'll be happy to tell you more and I promise it won't be boring.

That's all for now. Hope you're doing well.

Best wishes,

Andrew Boardman, Principal