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Kickstarter If you’re not familiar with it already, Kickstarter is a GREAT program and a tremendous resource for creative projects. To get it going: Creators start a project – for example, funding a new book or music CD. They create a page that has information about the project – pictures, videos, information – and create …Read More

You’ve heard of wikipedia right? (Please, please tell me you’ve heard of wikipedia.) Wikipedia has become so common, not everybody is familiar with the basic building block of wikipedia: the wiki. Put simply, a wiki is a website with editable pages. No, not edible pages – edit-able pages. Wikipedia itself is an encyclopedia with editable …Read More

Have you heard of Google Docs? No? Well … Imagine Microsoft Office … but online, simpler, and free. That’s Google Docs – and we love it! While we still use Office for our internal documents, many of us defer to Google Docs for our outside go-to program. Here are some of the benefits of Google …Read More

Because we’re on the topic, I have to take some time to introduce VenYou™, Bicycle Theory’s Content Management System. This is about as close as we’ll get to a sales pitch – but really I just want this post to be a good resource for our clients and others trying to get to know a …Read More

So you’ve decided that you want a Content Management System (CMS) for your next site. Well, lucky for you – you’ve got options! Some developers will use what is known as an “Open Source” system. Joomla, Drupal, Concrete 5, and WordPress.org are popular examples. (WordPress.org, though initially a blogging platform, is being more frequently used as a …Read More

One of the more common questions we get as we’re working on an initial project with a client is – “What’s a CMS?” If you’re not already familiar with what a ‘CMS’ or ‘Content Management System’ is – here’s a quick description for you. The obvious answer is “a content management system allows you to …Read More

Happy November, everybody! Working my way back to the office the other day I was thinking about how much I have to be grateful for. This being November and all, it seems pretty appropriate to start off the month being grateful, right? I was thinking about how in spite of the recession, the Occupy movements, …Read More