EISOffice.net Launched, Switch to In-House Design
I spent seven wonderful years designing websites for Somerset Design Group, a design consultancy that grew out of the IT department of Somerset Fine Art. In general we would be working on a many as a dozen sites at any given time, with an assembly-line approach of moving the project from concept to design to implementation and production. There was a constantly-moving flow of interesting projects and if a project wasn’t very interesting, well you were only stuck with it for a limited time. On the other hand, the come and go could make you feel like a surrogate mother. The projects you liked were only with you for a limited time as well, and when your part was finished, you had to hand them off to someone else to raise. I believe effective website design is a cycle of feedback and revision that allows the site to evolve to better serve its purpose and embrace new needs not even thought about when the site was commissioned. Too often, I saw good websites whither on the vine - instead of evolving, they remained the same for months or even years, becoming more stale and antiquated by the day.
Moving In-House
So at the beginning of the year, when an opportunity came up for me to move to EIS Office Solutions, a 2-year old, rapidly growing office supply company looking to establish itself on the web, it was an opportunity to stay with a project long-term and see what I could do with that evolutionary process. The move is something like a lawyer from being a partner at a law firm becoming a general counsel at a company.
I’m proud to announce that the first iteration has launched at www.eisoffice.net. EIS Office Solutions specializes in providing compatible ink and toner at tremendous savings to companies like HISD, Wells Fargo, Lowe’s, Cola-Cola, Kolache Factory, and Steve & Barrys University Sportswear to name a few at an average of 35% less than OfficeMax, Office Depot and Staples. We’ve also added 30,000 Office Supply products and am in the process of adding more technology products.
