We have some exciting online developments with enormous enhancements coming soon to WritersDojo.org. Stay tuned for our relaunch as an art-house style online magazine for Pacific Northwest writers. More on this topic throughout August, when this blog will migrate over to the Website.
In the meantime, please check out this fabulous blog for all things literary in Oregon, from our friends at Literary Arts: http://paperfort.blogspot.com. There's a great wealth of resources and information brewing with interviews and more. Please take a gander and help us support and applaud their efforts.
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Showing posts with label resource. Show all posts
Monday, July 28, 2008
Friday, May 16, 2008
CMS Websites for Writers
For about 5 months we've been chatting with Web programmers and designers to offer inexpensive CMS websites, custom designed, to come in under or around $1000. If you're familiar with Content Management Systems and high-end Web design, you probably understand our challenge to find a highly qualified team willing to help us in this price range.
We wanted creative time with amazing designers, a creative brief session, and then 7 or 8 pages to start, with the ability to easily add pages at will, and the sites needed to include such options as: easy-to-use point and click CMS, all the basics like home, about, and contact forms, secondary navigation features, gallery for photos or streaming media, blog, events calendar, mailing list sign up... All the stuff writers might need.
We talked to programmers involved with Drupal, Joomla, Windows .NET, XML, PHP... The price tag always ran North, up, up and away to 2K, 3K, 5K. It's the CMS connected to custom design that makes it so expensive. Occasionally we found a programmer willing to help, but only for one site. (We want to help many writers.) But then the reality of no money set in... we have a project manager, designer, and programmer for each site... Then we discovered roadblocks and shortcuts taken. Not good.
Just when all hope was lost... We have discovered a solution! Our friends from an amazing and powerful and successful Web shop, the sort that works exclusively with large corporate clients and budgets to match, have agreed to help support our writing community. They are extraordinarily generous and though we have just started this endeavor together through a beta launch phase, we are grateful for their positive energy, experience, advice and support.
If you need a site and you understand the value of what we're talking about here, please drop a line. Let's chat. Our goal here is to just provide an awesome resource. Once we get fully up and running, we'll also have lots of free content and ideas for writers and Web development.
We wanted creative time with amazing designers, a creative brief session, and then 7 or 8 pages to start, with the ability to easily add pages at will, and the sites needed to include such options as: easy-to-use point and click CMS, all the basics like home, about, and contact forms, secondary navigation features, gallery for photos or streaming media, blog, events calendar, mailing list sign up... All the stuff writers might need.
We talked to programmers involved with Drupal, Joomla, Windows .NET, XML, PHP... The price tag always ran North, up, up and away to 2K, 3K, 5K. It's the CMS connected to custom design that makes it so expensive. Occasionally we found a programmer willing to help, but only for one site. (We want to help many writers.) But then the reality of no money set in... we have a project manager, designer, and programmer for each site... Then we discovered roadblocks and shortcuts taken. Not good.
Just when all hope was lost... We have discovered a solution! Our friends from an amazing and powerful and successful Web shop, the sort that works exclusively with large corporate clients and budgets to match, have agreed to help support our writing community. They are extraordinarily generous and though we have just started this endeavor together through a beta launch phase, we are grateful for their positive energy, experience, advice and support.
If you need a site and you understand the value of what we're talking about here, please drop a line. Let's chat. Our goal here is to just provide an awesome resource. Once we get fully up and running, we'll also have lots of free content and ideas for writers and Web development.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
The Mother of Events Calendar
We've been threatening to develop a master events calendar that culls together all other literary calendars for events, reading, workshops, etc., and puts them into one easy-to-use and read database with simple search functions and daily updates. Whoa, that would be awesome. A one-stop shop. Maybe sometime this year we'll get it together.
In the meantime, there are all the email lists and organizations and book stores and newspapers to check. We always feel like we're late--oh, just missed another favorite writer who was in town for one day. Luckily, we caught this one in time. If your a fan like we are of Then We Came to The End... Joshua Ferris will be at Powell's on Tuesday night. That's on Burnside, March 25th, 7:30pm.
In the meantime, there are all the email lists and organizations and book stores and newspapers to check. We always feel like we're late--oh, just missed another favorite writer who was in town for one day. Luckily, we caught this one in time. If your a fan like we are of Then We Came to The End... Joshua Ferris will be at Powell's on Tuesday night. That's on Burnside, March 25th, 7:30pm.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Get Your Daily Fix
Thanks to the folks at the PSU Writing Center for the cool blog and resource: PDX Daily Writer.
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