We are adding to our team, and we have a full-time position in our Sebastopol office for an experienced front-end web developer with excellent communication skills.
Our design partners tell our story more compellingly than we can, so we've been conducting a series of interviews. We've just published the first one, with Luke Green of Inspira Digital.
On Saturday, I had the opportunity to give a 5-minute Webvanta demo as part of the BizTechDay conference in San Francisco. It's a challenge to convey the power of Webvanta in such a short demo. I chose to focus on how Webvanta supports any design, and allows the designer to easily build database-driven pages.
We'll be participating in two conferences this month and hope to meet some of our readers and customers there. This Friday, October 8, we'll have a demo table at the Warm Gun conference. Two weeks later, on October 22, I'll be leading a roundtable discussion on choosing a CMS at the SocialBizWorld conference in Petaluma, CA.
I'm pleased to announce that Hasan Luongo has joined Webvanta as Director of Marketing. With the imminent launch of Webvanta 2.0, we're going to be significantly increasing our marketing efforts, and Hasan will be leading this charge.
We had a great time at South by Southwest, showing Webvanta to hundreds of web designers and other folks involved with the web. This was a sneak preview of our 2.0 user interface, and the reactions were super-positive.
In a few hours, we'll be on an airplane for Austin, headed to SXSW for our first big trade show! I'm really excited about showing off Webvanta 2.0 for the first time and being able to talk with lots of designers.
We're delighted to announce the winners of the Webvanta Web Design Contest. The top prize goes to the Gunpowder Graphics site, created by designer John Slingerland.
Since I first became involved with Ruby on Rails about four years ago, I've been listening to the Ruby on Rails podcast. Today Christopher and I had the pleasure of being interviewed for this podcast.
I recently held a Web Design clinic at Art Institute of Sacramento to help students learn the ropes of hosted CMS tools. The visit morphed into a very interesting discussion and general brain dump on the business of Web Design.