Beta is live!

Consider yourself invited to join www.homedigz.com and nose around! Find anything strange? Let me know at info@homedigz.com.

Thanks!!!!

So close!

Just a few more glitches to sort out! I know it seems like a long time just to get a forum up and running, but because it is also a content management system of sorts, there is a lot of custom coding on the back end.

We're down the the nitty stuff now, so it won't be long!

Happy Dance

As promised, I'm doing the "happy dance" because the fonts have been updated. No more trebuchet! Yea!

I Have a Thing for Fonts

Is that normal? When writing an article, I can't use the default word font of times new roman - I can only draft in Arial 11. (you'd think I'd figure out how the change the default font by now).

Anyway, the site is really coming along now. But one little thing left on the list is to change the fonts from trebuchet (which I can't stand) to verdana or arial. How petty am I!?!?

Anyway, when they do get to that update I'm sure I'll do the happy dance. Til then, I promise to stay out of their way and stop updating the Google Doc. :)

Good and messy!

The site looks much different now…but it’s a bit like half-way moved in…kind of messy. Looking forward to the heavy lifting to be finished so I can flush out all those “testing 123” type entries and replace it with real content. I hope much of the fixes can be completed by the end of the week. {crossed fingers}

Looking up!

It's true that while good things don't come easy, the journey is worth the destination! Making good progress (behind the scenes). I guess I'm being rather picky in wanting the site to be really ready before launching, but I know it will be awesome and worth all the little headaches along the way.

So stay tuned, and I'll let you know when we're ready to kick the ol' tires!

Working on launch and marketing plan now

While slow progress is being made on the site, I'm busy-ing myself with preparing my launch plan and marketing plan. I did a first draft of each a few months ago, so I took a look at them to see what has changed and what I have learned since then.

The launch plan remained much the same (except for the dates, of course), but I was very pleased to review the marketing plan and incorporate what I've learned over the past few months about social media and its impact.

Bottom line, this is going to be a great site, and I want to let the right people know about it! And please note that I'm going the extra mile to ensure that site particpation is very beneficial to business members as well as the enthusiastic dwellers who use their services.

So don't pay too much attention to my whining on this blog...I'm just venting now and then. We're moving forward, and I plan to hit the ground running once the site is launch-ready!

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