Free The Animal

My company, Provanta, begins releasing it’s weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly results for its clients. Not often mentioned, but a hearty round of applause for the major credit card banks who recognized financial hardship, and voluntarily agreed to these settlement agreements in lieu of more forceful options at their disposal. Later: Monthly results for April are now posted.

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We’ve now been live for a couple of days and I’m blogging over there as well. Of course, it’s industry specific, there’s tons of regulatory land mines, I have responsibilities and commitments to others, and so the commentary and style will be substantially different than over here. It is what it is.

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I began getting a sense of this some time ago. …Blog platforms can be customized beautifully these days with a fraction of the development time and cost because the entire backend of the site is already done. That’s a huge shift for the web design business because traditional shops (and I’ve worked for and with some) would have their own code set for building sites or they would start from scratch. Customers got charged like crazy for sites that would really be no big deal in this day and age. The worst part is not everyone knows this and some web shops are still selling their services like always. This blog, though I could, isn’t even customized directly in the CSS (cascading style sheet) but is rather just a stock template that I’ve customized within a limited range of parameters TypePad provides, such as colors, fonts, link styles, title styles, and so on. Basically, just like creating a fancy Word template that you then use over and over. So I have several different page designs which are saved as templates. The front page is one, the about page another, and then there’s a generic page style for displaying posts past…

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