During the past year, we've spent a lot of time talking with designers. To help us stay closely connected to the needs of our users, we've recently formed the Webvanta Designer Council.
I am pleased to announce that we have closed our Series A financing. With this additional capital, we have the resources to continue advancing our products, ramp up our marketing efforts, and add support staff.
If you're in San Francisco or thereabouts and are interested in meeting up, come on down to the SF New Tech gathering. I'll be doing a quick Webvanta demo on stage at the SF NewTech event.
We're pleased to have become one of the sponsors of the Boagworld podcast, which I've listened to for years and have found to be the best general web design podcast out there.
I'm going to be giving at talk at Softech in San Rafael next week, about the benefits of database-driven sites and how Webvanta makes them much easier to build.
We believe that many web sites that are using static designs today would provide a better user experience, have better SEO, and be easier to maintain if they were database-driven. In the past, the cost and complexity of building sites in this way discouraged most designers from considering it. Now that's changed.It's been an exciting week, with the official launch of Webvanta on Tuesday. We've had a great response, and we look forward to working with all of our new customers. And I'd especially like to thank all of the early believers who have been working with us during our beta period.
Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking at Ignite Sebastopol. Started a couple years ago by O'Reilly Media, Ignite talks use an unusual, fast-paced format: 20 slides, 5 minutes, and the slides advance automatically every 15 seconds so there's no such thing as running over. It's a challenging format but it sure keeps things moving.
On April 26th, 2009, Webvanta helped sponsor SacBarCamp and presented an overview of Webvanta for the participants. Christopher Haupt also sat down for some on-site, in the moment, podcasting to capture some of the attendees' thoughts on the BarCamp experience, as well as a peek into the local Design Community.