Recently I ordered some business cards for my new service:
http://homeimprovement.krazier.com and debated on whether I should go matte or glossy for the finish. I’ve never really cared for glossy except on postcards, glossy on business cards has always seemed “cheap” to me for some reason.

I’m trying to think back to all the cards I have purchased for myself and can’t think of a time where I chose to go with glossy, however this time was different. Yesterday I got my cards in the mail and have to say that they look really nice and I’m glad I decided to try something new.

What is your preference? Do you prefer Glossy or Matte on your business cards?

We are happy to announce that today we have opened the doors to property managers interested in listing their property on our new site:
http://www.SuperiorApts.com

If you own or manage an Apartment, Bed & Breakfast, Condo, Duplex or Townhouse we encourage you to visit our site and sign up to be notified as a “Property Manager”, from there we will send you an email with a link providing additional information on listing your properties with us. Or you can simply send us a Direct Message on our twitter account over here:
http://twitter.com/SuperiorApts and we’ll get you the link.

Our primary goal right now is getting managers to list their properties so that when we open the site to the public we will have listings available to search for. Please spread the word to as many property managers as possible, the more we have the sooner we can open up the public beta.

Pricing & Promotions

• Each new property listing will receive 60 days absolutely free!
• If you purchase at least 30 additional days you will be entered in to win one of five ZuneHDs we are giving away (Limited to first 1000 managers to list at least one paid listing)
• For each day you purchase we will give you another half day free (up to 365 days free), so if you buy 50 days you would get an additional 25 days free, if you bought 730 days you would get an additional 365 days free.
• We charge just $1 per day, per listing. You can purchase anywhere from 30 days up to 730 days.

Note: All start and end dates for any listing you add will be adjusted according to the official public launch day which has yet to be determined.

Some Features

• Full Manager Details
• Management Name
• Logo
• Contact Information
• Website
• Description
• Link to Twitter, FriendFeed & Facebook Accounts
• Displayed on your Property Listing
• Displays all your Properties in Listing
• Quick Contact Request in Listing
• Full Property Details
• Full Description
• Contact Information
• Website
• Office Hours
• Up to 50 Photos per Listing
• Add 5 Photosynths
• Add Floor plans with Images
• Apartment Amenities
• Community Amenities
• Pet Information
• Parking Information
• Local Neighborhood Information
• Interactive Map
• Easily create Craigslist Ads

Thank you

We would like to thank you for evaluating our services and hope you will take advantage of our 60 day free listing promotion.

We are excited and look forward to working with you.

Thank you,
Micah

Krazier Designs would like to offer our Web Design services to a local (Sartell, St. Cloud area) art organization in need of a new website for the high price of $0.00. We have been in the area for just over a year now and would like to help give back to the community by providing up to 40 hours of free web design services to an organization related to the visual and performing arts: Art Galleries, Theatres, Music, etc.

Here at Krazier Designs we feel that art plays an important role in all of our lives whether people realize it or not, we hope that we can help your organization promote your art services to the community.

If your organization falls into the visual or performing arts and are in need of a new website, please send us an email at: info@krazier.com with at least the information listed below:

• Organization Name
• Art Category involved with
• Current Website
• Your Name and relation to the organization
• Email Address
• Phone Number
• Description of your services
• Description of how a new site would benefit you and the community
• Description of the features you would like on your website that do not already exist on your current site
• Any other useful information about your organization so we can get a better level of understand as to what you do and what you offer

We are looking to get started on a site soon and so we are setting a short deadline to get your requests in. We will accept requests up through Sunday September 20th 2009. At that point we will pick one organization to work with on a new website.

Please note:

• Websites will be static only, no database driven sites will be allowed
• Websites will be built using the ASP.NET framework or basic HTML depending on the features of the site
• Domain Name expenses are to be handled by the organization
• Hosting can be provided if requested
• Due to limitations in our own time we are limiting our free services to 40 hours

Please pass on this article to anyone who you feel might be interested in our offer, we look forward to all your requests and we hope we are able to help out a great organization.

Thank you,
Krazier Designs

In my last post about Sytek, I mentioned that we will continually update the blog with recent work that we have completed. We just launched the second site that we designed and developed for Sytek, this time Sytek’s client iss the Centrasota Centre in St. Cloud MN.

This site was a bit more involved compared to the Hendricks Insurance site in that there were more pages, photos, content and they requested a flash element with some photos and basic text.

Professional looking design targeted at a younger age group were just a couple of the goals the client requested. Business/ Professional design involves clean, sharp lines, strong colors and a clean interface.The client is very pleased with the way the site turned out, we are happy that the Centrasota Centre now has a great new website to show their clients.

Here at Krazier Designs we actually produce quite a bit more work than what our portfolio actually shows, this is mostly because of a lack of time to update our own site.

We decided it is important that we start showcasing more of our recent work to help show-off what we are really able to create. We plan to blog about our latest projects at least once a week from here on out.

Recently we started working with a company called Sytek Communications located about 30 miles north of St. Cloud MN in Upsula MN. They recently started offering basic web design services and ended up getting busier than expected and needed someone to help them out. We saw it as a good opportunity for us to produce a lot of new quality work for our portfolio while at the same time helping make the web look a little nicer.

We are currently working on two new sites for them and we just launched a third site that we completed. Hendricks Insurance Agency is the first completed site and we think it turned out quite well. The client was looking for something clean and easy to use. We received basic color requests and only a few photos to work with.

Based off this basic information we designed the concept shown above, the client loved the design and was beyond what they would have ever imagined. We swiftly converted the design to html and the site was launched in under a week (which includes waiting for client responses on design and other comments on the test site before final approval.)

This is the first of hopefully many more blog posts showcasing some of our most recent work for our clients.