Home arrow A Client Review
Bouncing into the 21st Century PDF Print E-mail
Written by John Drezek, Advertising Manager for TexTESOLV   

TexTESOLV
Snapshot of TexTESOLV.org
     In the summer of 2007, a TexTESOL V subcommittee was formed to search for a web design firm to update our website. Dr. Ouellette, Mary Peacock, Diana Bustillos and I tried to envision what would serve us best while planning the 2008 State TESOL Conference for November 6-8, 2008. TexTESOL V had already procured Actēva online registration and payment services (http://www.acteva.com), a huge step forward in automating payments, simplifying the registration process for our members, increasing efficiency in handling membership data and reducing work demands on our all-volunteer staff. We hoped to find a web designer who would create a website that was attractive, professional, easy for TexTESOLers to navigate and effortless for board members to update so as to expand our service to the ESOL community. We contacted friends in the business to educate ourselves on what to ask for when requesting a proposal, then investigated what types of services were typical and economically feasible. After creating a list of needs, we contacted local and national web development firms. Each of us was tasked with finding 5-10 companies. I found mine through Craigslist.com. The proposals came in with vast differences between the bottom lines ($1000 basic design to well over $25,000). While cost was certainly important, I believe the designs of previous websites and the personality of the eBM team won us over.


     Wael Salama (President) was exceptionally professional and offered us many extras to secure our business, and Lindsay Stone (web designer) was confident, professional, knowledgeable. The eBM “superstar” team has been quick to respond to questions, resolve issues and willing to go the extra mile for our organization. For example, Lindsay researched and found a module for our website that would allow us to hold elections and created the ability for us to Blog and generate forums to better inform and give our members an opportunity to express themselves. She also installed a module allowing us to sell conference memorabilia such as: T-shirts, bumper stickers and mugs. We may never use that feature, but it shows how hard eBM Corp is willing work to exceed our  expectations. We are currently in test mode for our new and improved TexTESOL V website and hope to bring it live in a week or so. The address will be the same, so click http://www.textesolv.org and check us out. Please be patient as we work feverishly to update content. We hope you find the website informative and fun. I have certainly learned a great deal in the last few months about the web design process. See you in November at the 2008 State Conference!

 
 

Social Bookmark Us

Add to: Mr. Wong Add to: Webnews Add to: Icio Add to: Oneview Add to: Kledy.de Social Bookmarking Add to:  FAV!T Social Bookmarking Add to: Favoriten.de Add to: Seekxl Add to: Social Bookmark Portal Add to: BoniTrust Add to: Power-Oldie Add to: Bookmarks.cc Add to: Newskick Add to: Newsider Add to: Linksilo Add to: Readster Add to: Yigg Add to: Linkarena Add to: Digg Add to: Del.icoi.us Add to: Reddit Add to: Jumptags Add to: Upchuckr Add to: Simpy Add to: StumbleUpon Add to: Slashdot Add to: Netscape Add to: Furl Add to: Yahoo Add to: Blogmarks Add to: Diigo Add to: Technorati Add to: Newsvine Add to: Blinkbits Add to: Ma.Gnolia Add to: Smarking Add to: Netvouz Add to: Folkd Add to: Spurl Add to: Google Add to: Blinklist Information