Back in the Groove

Published in Web Development on Thursday, August 12th, 2004

All back to normal here at fiftyfoureleven.com...

Just a note to say hello, we're back, and hopefully regular posting will follow!

The crew here have been hard at work on a few sites set to launch by the middle of next month, and I took some offline time (gasp!) to put the hammer down and get some designs and other IA related stuff sorted out. If you've e-mailed recently and not heard back, hopefully you soon will.

Of note

Some cool stuff to note:

Our site

The site that was promised at the root url here has been indefinitely put on hold while we sort ourselves out. For what it's worth, we are a group of four people, 2 web developers, a marketer, and one business development manager (bdm). We are a fusion of supply and demand, the bdm having the supply (work) and the remainder the demand (skills). We're simply too busy to build a site right now, nor do we see the need. Yay for us ;-]

Comments and Feedback

Just a note to say hello, we're back, and hopefully regular posting will follow!

About bloody time too! Seriously though, it's great to you back posting, your insights were missed.

Oh yeah, thanks for the plug! :-)

Hey Mike, good to have you back!

Yeah I was wondering what had happened to you. Looking forward to new articles.

Thanks a lot you guys, always cool to be missed. There's a few posts in the pipeline now, but for awhile there it was all photoshop and fireworks, and trying to sort out some vast amounts of info that will be put into some new sites...

Minz, great article.

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