We've been continuing to move our sites over to the new hosting facility as the previous one was causing more problems. We anticipate that all of our sites will be on the new server within a week. We are moving most sites manually to ensure that everything is done properly.

There may be a small interruption in the mail service as we transfer over the sites, but we will do all that we can to make sure it is minimal.

We are excited to be in our new hosting facility and anticipate more reliable service.

During the Christmas holidays one of our servers was down. None of our client sites were down, it was mostly our main site (vinemultimedia.com) that was affected as well as our development projects.
We have moved over all of our client sites to a new server, in a new hosting facility. We now have +99.9% guaranteed uptime and a much easier interface for clients to access their accounts.
We will also be moving our development server over to the new facility shortly.

The Home Appliance Superstore by Factory Outlet Small Appliance was our solution to the old site that FOSA was running. Our plan was to make a site that was easier on the eyes, and easier to navigate than their old shopping cart.
We lightened up the color scheme, divided the categories into a more functional heirarchy and created easily distinguishable tabs/buttons for the main levels of organization in their products: New Small Appliances, Refurbished Small Appliances and Small Appliance Parts.
Though most stores are vying for the retail sales of new appliances, Factory Outlet Small Appliance has a strong upper hand in that they have a HUGE selection of current and vintage appliance parts. They do factory authorized service & repairs for any sort of appliance you can think of.
I keep planning to buy a juicer from their store, and we tried to put a blender in the contract for their web design project. :) That reminds me, i still haven't gotten my wedding gift from Markos....

We were approached by this site: Small Appliance, Shaver and Gas Grill parts, accesories and repairs - Factory Outlet Small Appliance in the end of 2003. They wanted a more functional site that helped bring more customers to their online store. They were paying over $200 for a hosted ecommerce package but were getting far less traffic than when they had a totally budget, totally ugly solution.
Being the only factory authorized service depot in Winnipeg for virtually every manufacturer of small appliance, they had a niche. They have thousands and thousands of appliance parts, but nobody was buying...

Well, you can't spam blogger.com. You can't try to do anything that seems like link spamming or blatant search engine positioning.
This blog WASN'T created for that purpose. It was created to teach some of the basics of web design from a case study point of view. Our hope is that young web designers will come and take a look and see the life-cycle of web-development and learn to do the same for themselves.
We gladly accept feedback and would love to see posts from others who are passionate about what they do on the internet.

Welcome to the vine multimedia blog. A blog is a web-log - or a journal of activity. Our intent is to outline some of our projects and new developments on this site. Please feel free to leave comments and take a look around.