News & Blog
| Subscribe | |
| Subscribe via RSS | |
![]() |
Subscribe via Email |
We decided to take a page from the guys at 37signals and redesign our homepage with simplicity in mind. It’s a lot simpler now and hopefully conveys our message more effectively.
I did purchase and read Getting Real last week—it’s a quick read, very well-written (if you’re into the modern-blog-conversational style of writing, which I am), and full of great tips.
Thanks to Manny for putting this new design together in less than 48 hours and Brian Lamar for implementation in about the same amount of time.
Either 37S is [Getting Real]ly big... or they just happen to appeal to likeminded folks. Although I feel 37S's shine is beginning to dull, I found Webmail.us around 4-5 months ago and besides helping me in a pinch, I've found the service to be excellent. (Just added our 7th domain today.)
Maybe it was the icons, I don't know, but webmail.us stood out in the overcrowded sea of mail hosts. Interestingly, your site is very Un37S, in the sense that the design is really tight (which is good.) Sometimes you need to look enterprise-y. If webmail.us had the 37S aesthetic, I probably would have kept looking.
So do you guys read John Gruber's Daring Fireball too? What about Siracusa? I need to do a six degrees experiment one of these days...
Just found your blog (ironically it was the Getting Real in quotes that made me look,) but I'm subscribed now, so I'll be reading. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to all of the scheduled improvements.
Posted by: at March 24, 2006 11:49 AM
Thanks!
Yes, I don't agree with everything they say or do but we're all about the "keep it simple" mantra that they preach. Sometimes you just have to take the good, leave the bad, and then do your own thing. Design is important to us and I don't like most of their designs... but they do keep them simple.
Posted by: Pat at March 24, 2006 01:04 PM