It’s always easier to work on client work, as there is a certain separation between it and us. Now don’t get me wrong, we still try to connect with our clients and strive to achieve what they want, and more.
I’m specifically focusing on the sheer amount of time that we are dumping into cleaning up the website and trying to make it more worthy of our company per say. Every little detail gets looked at and thought about for not just minutes, hours, different approaches are mocked up, different color schemes tried. It’s really ridiculous how much time has been spent (over our vacations) on the site. I guess in the end it’s worth it to have a nice and functional site that we do not have to constantly think about having to fix up; oh wait! That has been our site for the last three years!
For a long time we have been using the Aptana Cloud service to host our web properties. After much debate over the last six months we’ve decided that once the website is finished being tweaked we will be moving our properties over to Media Temple. They are one of the top tier webhosting companies available online, and as such we will be hoping to push their services to our customers as well. It should be a fun challenge to migrate our systems to their virtualized systems, but we feel its an important move in maintaining reliability and efficiency.