August 17th, 2009
After quite a bit of deliberation, we decided to take a step away from Tumblr and to employ Wordpress as our primary weblog for the studio. We truly loved our time with Tumblr, but honestly, we realized that we had outgrown it and for various reasons, we needed a publishing platform with a bit more power and options.
Perhaps the main impetus for getting us to make the switch was for the Search Engine Optimization benefits. We have been concentrating heavily on improving our organic search results as a company, and we realized what we were missing by having to push our readers to an external site to read our posts was having, in our opinion, a negative effect on those results.
As of today, we are officially moved over to Wordpress and all of our content has been migrated. We have kicked the tires and bit the nickels and we’re happy with our new little e-Smith Corona.
Tags: eljl, web design, Web Development, weblog, Wordpress Migration, Wordpress Skinning
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August 14th, 2009
I just finished reading Smashing Magazine’s new article about corporate blogging. There is a lot of good information there on making your company’s weblog a real asset-not just a marketing tool, but a voice. Gone are the days of inpersonal, corporate speak. Consumers and clients want to hear the “individual/personal” voice of the company. By presenting the company as an individual that talks with a customer/client on a one-on-one basis, rather than talking down to them from the 10,000 foot view, we can create lasting working relationships-a feature that is becomming more and more essential during these times.
Tags: corporate culture, smashing magazine, weblog, work ethic, Writing
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January 8th, 2008
This is the official weblog / information dump for eljl. We’re always running across cool things during our adventures around the internuts, and so we thought we would give voice to some of the stuff that is turning our heads.
(Ed. Note – Well, we actually made the switch to Wordpress in August 2009. We love tumblr, but we needed to pull everything a little closer to home.)
The weblog is being driven by tumblr. We skinned a template of theirs and hacked the hell out of it (with the help of my mighty CSS shoe horn) to get the same look and feel as the rest of our site.
We are now doing some final testing before integrating it into the fold with the rest of our site.
Tags: Blogging, eljl, Project, Redesign, tumblr, web design, Web Development, Wordpress
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