http://www.simplemodus.com/News feed for the web software development firm, simpleModus60http://www.simplemodus.com/content.aspx?content=news&newsid=20<p>Sorry about the apparent lack of updates lately folks, we&#39;ve been super busy! Since launching the site in March we&#39;ve taken on several new clients who, fortunately for us, take up most of our time with billable work (that means we can&#39;t update our site as often because we need to be making money!).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The dev blog has kind of fallen behind as well, sorry about that too. Though we have been working with a lot of cool tools lately that may be worthy of a short post on the dev blog, so maybe there will be something new up there soon. Anyhoo, just wanted to make a quick post to let you all know that we are definitely NOT dead!</p>... Click headline to read moreThu, 13 Sep 2007 17:01:27 GMThttp://www.simplemodus.com/content.aspx?content=news&newsid=19<p><a href="http://www.simplemodus.com" title="simpleModus!"><strong>simpleModus</strong></a> was recently added to the &quot;<a href="http://www.designmeltdown.com/chapters/minimal/part4.aspx" target="_blank" title="thanks for the link guys!"><strong>minimal</strong></a>&quot; category over at <a href="http://www.designmeltdown.com" target="_blank" title="Design Meltdown"><strong>Design Meltdown</strong></a>. Big thanks to the folks over at <strong><a href="http://www.designmeltdown.com" target="_blank" title="Design Meltdown"><strong>Design Meltdown</strong></a></strong> for all of the traffic they&#39;ve been sending our way as a result.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For those that don&#39;t know, <strong><a href="http://www.designmeltdown.com" target="_blank" title="Design Meltdown"><strong>Design Meltdown</strong></a></strong> is a huge repository of web designs that are categorized by the type of design. They&#39;ve taken the best sites they can find for each category and posted them up for all to see. It&#39;s a great resource when you&#39;re looking for inspiration for a specific type of website design.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Speaking of designs, we&#39;ll be posting up a slightly re-designed version of <a href="http://www.simplemodus.com" title="us!"><strong>simplemodus.com</strong></a> up soon! We&#39;re re-arranging things in order to better our ranking in the search engines. Stay tuned!&nbsp;</p>... Click headline to read moreSun, 08 Jul 2007 12:24:29 GMThttp://www.simplemodus.com/content.aspx?content=news&newsid=18<p>A special thank you goes out to the following CSS style galleries for including us in their listings. <a href="http://www.mostinspired.com" target="_blank" title="mostinspired.com"><strong>mostinspired.com</strong></a> , <a href="http://screenalicious.com" target="_blank" title="screenalicious.com"><strong>screenalicious.com</strong></a>, and <a href="http://dailyslurp.com" target="_blank" title="dailyslurp.com"><strong>dailyslurp.com</strong></a> . We owe our recent spike in traffic and exposure to these sites, so make sure you go visit them so that we may return the favor!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>We appreciate any and all exposure, so if you like what you see here, please don&#39;t hesitate to hook us up with a link. We&#39;ll be sure to return your kindness with a mention on our website. </p>... Click headline to read moreThu, 17 May 2007 14:09:59 GMThttp://www.simplemodus.com/content.aspx?content=news&newsid=17<p>simpleModus is proud to announce our new referral program. If you can refer a new client to us, then you will be eligible for $50.00 or 5% of the first invoice we collect from that client (which ever amount is greater). There are a few things that you need to do to be considered a legitimate referrer. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><blockquote><ol><li>First you need to contact us through our <a href="/content.aspx?content=contact" title="contact us">contact form</a>, and let us know who you&#39;re referring to us. In your message, please include all relevant contact information for this potential client.</li><li>Second, we will need all of your contact information (that is unless you don&#39;t want to get paid). We prefer that you send that information when you initially contact us with your referral. Please include your name, email, address, and phone number. </li><li>Third, the company/person that you&#39;re referring to us will need to be aware of your referral. In other words, if we call them about your referral, and they&#39;ve never heard of you, you&#39;ll no longer be eligible for a referral bonus for that client. So make sure that whomever you put us in contact with knows who you are!</li></ol></blockquote><p>&nbsp;</p><p>That&#39;s it! We do the rest of the work. Please be aware that we cannot pay out a bonus for a client if we do not collect payment on at least one invoice from them. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to hop onto our <a href="content.aspx?content=contact" title="contact form">contact form</a> and get in touch! </p><p>&nbsp;</p>... Click headline to read moreSun, 06 May 2007 10:48:35 GMThttp://www.simplemodus.com/content.aspx?content=news&newsid=16<p>Microsft recently released &quot;Silverlight&quot; their Adobe Flash/Flex competitor for building rich web applications. Unlike other attempts by Microsoft to step into other markets and failing miserably (hello zune?), this one actually seems to show some promise. It will be interesting to see how many developers start supporting it. If you&#39;re still unsure of what silverlight is exactly you can check out the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/default01.aspx" target="_blank" title="MS silverlight">silverlight website</a>.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; &quot;Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of Microsoft .NET-based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If you&#39;re interested in seeing a demo, get ahold of us! We will soon be adding Silverlight development to our arsenal of tools. </p><p>&nbsp;</p>... Click headline to read moreWed, 02 May 2007 23:08:00 GMThttp://www.simplemodus.com/content.aspx?content=news&newsid=6<p>Finally! After a few months of going back and forth on design issues, architecture, and verbiage we&#39;ve released our corporate website to the world! Browse around and tell us what you think.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>We realize that the&#39;re not much here right now, but believe us it&#39;s just the beginning! Keep checking back every so often to see what we have going on. </p>... Click headline to read moreThu, 29 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.simplemodus.com/content.aspx?content=news&newsid=3<p>simpleModus will be attending Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, CA. We&#39;re looking forward to getting out there and see what new and innovative stuff everyone is doing. Here is a short description of the conference pulled directly off of their website.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><blockquote><p>&quot;<strong>What is Web 2.0 Expo?</strong><br />Web 2.0 Expo is an annual gathering of technical, design, marketing, and business professionals who are building the next generation web. Web 2.0 Expo features the most innovative and successful Internet industry figures and companies providing attendees with examples of business models, development paradigms, and design strategies to enable mainstream businesses and new arrivals to the Web 2.0 world to take advantage of this new generation of services and opportunities.</p><p>&nbsp;</p></blockquote><p>Should be an interesting event. Hope to see you there!</p>... Click headline to read moreSat, 24 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.simplemodus.com/content.aspx?content=news&newsid=1<p>We&#39;ve recently began work on our first subscription based application called &quot;simpleNotes&quot;. simpleNotes is a web-based application that&#39;s main purpose is to help you organize all of your projects into a single place. simpleNotes will have a wide variety of features, but here is a short list of some of the core features.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><blockquote><ul><li>Ability to add users or collaborators to your projects (based on your subscription level)</li><li>Ability to add tasks and notes to a project and notify all users/collaborators</li><li>Ability to add documents to a project, documents will have versioning for easy restoration of an old file (based on your subscription level)</li><li>Ability to add events/goals and keep track with a calendar interface (based on your subscription level). <br /></li><li>Comments and/or discussion threads for all documents, tasks, notes, or events/goals. <br /></li></ul></blockquote><br /><p>Many more features are being discussed as we build out the frame work and data models. Keep checking our news postings for information on when we&#39;ll be accepting beta testers!</p>... Click headline to read moreSat, 17 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT