Paintball in Delaware!
Wednesday, August 29th, 2012
With their grand opening scheduled for the weekend of September 1st and 2nd, 2012, Precision Paintball of Georgetown, Delaware, is Sussex County’s only field and the premiere field on the Delmarva Peninsula. Red Sky is pleased to have produced their website, on a foundation of WordPress, including an event calendar, Google map based driving directions, lots of search engine optimization, and a photo gallery. Visit their site today, or better yet, come play paintball!
Website Management
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
So, you’ve got a website. Now what?
Like anything else in life, we get out of our websites what we put into them. When the Internet was young, websites were relatively static and simple. Glorified yellow page ads. A billboard in cyberspace. But this is no longer the norm.
Most new sites nowadays are developed using some sort of content management system. Could be Drupal, Joomla, Concrete, WordPress, or one of many others. We at Red Sky love WordPress for most sites. It’s got lots of built in capabilities, great SEO, an abundance of free plugins, and a decent (though simple) security system. So, unless you need lots of users with lots of different levels of security, or unless you need something really custom and special or ecommerce, WordPress is often more than capable. And it’s relatively simple, which means it takes less time to build a site with WordPress, which means it costs less money. If you need more power or features than WordPress offers, we’re well versed in Drupal, Joomla, and Concrete. And if you need even more power, we’ve developed a custom in-house CMS framework, dubbed Red Sky CMS.
But, I think I strayed from the point. The point is that regardless of the platform, websites need to consistently managed.
Some companies and organizations are doing a pretty good job at this. They’ve got staff dedicated to the regular tasks of adding and updating content, monitoring search engine placement, managing ad campaigns, etc. But most companies aren’t doing a good job at this yet. In most cases, it’s not because they don’t want to, it’s more that they’re simply not equipped. And this is where we at Red Sky excel.
We love managing websites. We love doing SEO and watching the search engine placement rise. But mostly we love it when websites are effective, effective in terms of attracting and engaging clients and potential clients and effective in terms of returning money. Let’s face it. That’s a primary reason any business is in business. To make money. To earn a return on investment, both capital investments and human investments.
Does your company earn a reasonable return on your website investment? If not, give us call. Perhaps we can help.
Thanks for reading,
Steve
steve@redskywebsites.com
Web-safe Fonts
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
Web Safe Fonts
The following fonts are generally available on all computers and other web-connected devices. (e.g. cell phones, tablets) Red Sky strongly believes in the importance of selecting fonts from this list. If a suitable font cannot be selected, Red Sky can incorporate any of the fonts from the Google Web Fonts selection located at www.google.com/webfonts.
Georgia
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Palatino Linotype
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Times New Roman
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Now Is The Time For All Good People To Come To The Aid Of Their Country. Grumpy wizards make toxic brew for the evil Queen and Jack. Joy rises from the red flames, shines through the darkening sky. Invitations unexpected, chances lost, found, writhing, glowing. Dance through the storm, smile at the past, dwindling peacefully away. Red Sky Websites – Lewes / Rehoboth Beach, Delaware Website Design, Web Development, Internet Marketing.
Arial
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Now Is The Time For All Good People To Come To The Aid Of Their Country. Grumpy wizards make toxic brew for the evil Queen and Jack. Joy rises from the red flames, shines through the darkening sky. Invitations unexpected, chances lost, found, writhing, glowing. Dance through the storm, smile at the past, dwindling peacefully away. Red Sky Websites – Lewes / Rehoboth Beach, Delaware Website Design, Web Development, Internet Marketing.
Arial Black
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Now Is The Time For All Good People To Come To The Aid Of Their Country. Grumpy wizards make toxic brew for the evil Queen and Jack. Joy rises from the red flames, shines through the darkening sky. Invitations unexpected, chances lost, found, writhing, glowing. Dance through the storm, smile at the past, dwindling peacefully away. Red Sky Websites – Lewes / Rehoboth Beach, Delaware Website Design, Web Development, Internet Marketing.
Comic Sans MS
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Now Is The Time For All Good People To Come To The Aid Of Their Country. Grumpy wizards make toxic brew for the evil Queen and Jack. Joy rises from the red flames, shines through the darkening sky. Invitations unexpected, chances lost, found, writhing, glowing. Dance through the storm, smile at the past, dwindling peacefully away. Red Sky Websites – Lewes / Rehoboth Beach, Delaware Website Design, Web Development, Internet Marketing.
Impact
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Now Is The Time For All Good People To Come To The Aid Of Their Country. Grumpy wizards make toxic brew for the evil Queen and Jack. Joy rises from the red flames, shines through the darkening sky. Invitations unexpected, chances lost, found, writhing, glowing. Dance through the storm, smile at the past, dwindling peacefully away. Red Sky Websites – Lewes / Rehoboth Beach, Delaware Website Design, Web Development, Internet Marketing.
Lucida Sans Unicode
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Now Is The Time For All Good People To Come To The Aid Of Their Country. Grumpy wizards make toxic brew for the evil Queen and Jack. Joy rises from the red flames, shines through the darkening sky. Invitations unexpected, chances lost, found, writhing, glowing. Dance through the storm, smile at the past, dwindling peacefully away. Red Sky Websites – Lewes / Rehoboth Beach, Delaware Website Design, Web Development, Internet Marketing.
Tahoma
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Now Is The Time For All Good People To Come To The Aid Of Their Country. Grumpy wizards make toxic brew for the evil Queen and Jack. Joy rises from the red flames, shines through the darkening sky. Invitations unexpected, chances lost, found, writhing, glowing. Dance through the storm, smile at the past, dwindling peacefully away. Red Sky Websites – Lewes / Rehoboth Beach, Delaware Website Design, Web Development, Internet Marketing.
Trebuchet MS
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Now Is The Time For All Good People To Come To The Aid Of Their Country. Grumpy wizards make toxic brew for the evil Queen and Jack. Joy rises from the red flames, shines through the darkening sky. Invitations unexpected, chances lost, found, writhing, glowing. Dance through the storm, smile at the past, dwindling peacefully away. Red Sky Websites – Lewes / Rehoboth Beach, Delaware Website Design, Web Development, Internet Marketing.
Veranda
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Now Is The Time For All Good People To Come To The Aid Of Their Country. Grumpy wizards make toxic brew for the evil Queen and Jack. Joy rises from the red flames, shines through the darkening sky. Invitations unexpected, chances lost, found, writhing, glowing. Dance through the storm, smile at the past, dwindling peacefully away. Red Sky Websites – Lewes / Rehoboth Beach, Delaware Website Design, Web Development, Internet Marketing.
Courier New
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Now Is The Time For All Good People To Come To The Aid Of Their Country. Grumpy wizards make toxic brew for the evil Queen and Jack. Joy rises from the red flames, shines through the darkening sky. Invitations unexpected, chances lost, found, writhing, glowing. Dance through the storm, smile at the past, dwindling peacefully away. Red Sky Websites – Lewes / Rehoboth Beach, Delaware Website Design, Web Development, Internet Marketing.
Lucida Console
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The Red Sky’s the limit!
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
It started as a gentle mention of an idea. That perhaps Beth and I could create a website company together. It germinated for a few weeks. We talked about other business possibilities, a restaurant/bar, windmills, a publishing company. But in the end, building and managing great websites just sense. I’ve been a computer geek for twenty-five years. Electronics first, then computer networking, then programming.
In 1993 the Internet began to come alive with first the Mosaic browser, then Netscape Navigator. And I was hooked. I was working for CE Computers at the time, a computer networking company with offices in Georgetown and Salisbury. I’d started as sales rep. Then I moved to a more technical position and earned my CNE (Certified Novell Engineer). We grew the company from three when I started to over twenty, most of whom I managed as Vice President. We spun off a new company, CE Net, in 1996. I was President and co-founder. You can take a peek at the old website on the Wayback Machine. A few years later we sold the company to Delaware.net. I worked there for a while, then at Inclind, then was self-employed for the last couple years doing freelance projects.
Enough background. Back to the present…
So we decided, Beth and I, that this was indeed a good idea. And everything came together. We were sitting in the very cool new bar in Rehoboth, Big Chill Surf Cantina. And the sky was red, a gorgeous sunset. Red sky at night, sailor’s delight, says the old saying. And a few days later, brainstorming about a new name for a new company, Red Sky emerged as the clear winner.
We both tend to believe that there aren’t any constraints in this life. So we’re pretty confident this is all going to work out well. The Red Sky is indeed the limit.