That business cat sure is funny.  What the heck is his problem though, its not like the life of a cat is that difficult.

This is the new Balian Design blog.  I was too lazy to migrate all of our old articles when I updated the website.  I will probably still do it, I am just awefull tired right now.

Stay tuned in, have some cool stuff on here soon.

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Over the years the Tech Insight Website was growing, and it was time for its design to grow as well! 

For starters, we moved to a more modern and SEO friendly blog format. 

Most of the old video standard def video was migrated to Vimeo, and all new video content will be in full HD.

Moving to Vimeo is really helping us out with server perforance as well as video quality and device compatibility (I'm looking at you Apple Computers). 

We also implemented a Content Delivery Network from the fine folks over at MAXCDN to decrease load times for all of our visitors world-wide!

Social networking is more important than ever for maintaining and controlling your brand image.  A good social networking strategy can increase your bottom line by increasing brand consciousness in a very personal way. 

We created three custom tab (applications) for Facebook:

A Where to Buy page that links to store locators for the individual brands that retail Sea Foam products, a main Identity page with history and usage information, and a page highlighting Sea Foam's sponsorship of Concordia University and the CU Golden Bears sports programs. 

Jim Davis is Sea Foam's Master Mechanic and technical advisor.  This site allows customers to interface directly with the company and receive expert advice on how to use Sea Foam products.

Logins and profiles are all managed by Facebook.  This gave us the freedom to avoid the constant war against spam comments that tend to come up on public help boards like this. 

An additional benefit of using Facebook is that it allowed us to bypass the normally cumbersome process of creating a new user account.  Users can click the connect with facebook button and instantly start posting.  The post is also then echo'd on the users facebook wall, helping to further increase brand awareness.

Jim isnt a very "techy" guy, and he describes the site as being very easy to use!

Sea Foam came to us with a prexisting Joomla 1.0 series website.  The site was outdated and didn't really do much for the client.

We redesigned from the ground up with a fresh install of Joomla 1.5.x.  The styling is very consistant.

We continue to work with Sea Foam, and will for some time implementing custom training solutions for their vendors, as well as a corporate intranet and an EDI compliant warehouse gateway.

Tech Insight is the website of the trade publication for members of Intel's (Reseller) Channel Partner Program.

They came to us very frustrated after hiring an amatuer to put together a Joomla 1.5.x website.

On a very limited timeframe we were able to put together a very complicated and highly functional online news site. We created all of the necessary standards for consistancy accross the site - as well as providing training and support for the sites administrators and editors.

The site is also highly optimized for maximum readability and orgainzation of content.

Minneapolis Joomla is primarily a lead generation site for our Joomla services.

It showcases much of what a joomla site can do for a client, and has technology demos for dozens of Joomla components and extensions.

It also serves as our "component sandbox", allowing us to test all of the latest and greatest additions to the joomla world.

The site also holds our project management and customer support portal, built on Activecollab.