If you’ve been keeping up with the updates on the website over the past month, you may have noticed that the Stagehand AC product has gotten a face-lift.  While the new model isn’t a revolutionary change from the old product, it’s got a couple of nifty new features that I have been mulling over for about a year.  Sometimes I want to scrap a design and start fresh…not this time.  The Stagehand AC has been a very popular product and it’s basic functionality is pretty solid, so an evolutionary polishing seemed more fitting. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, it’s been a long time coming, but the new Creative Conners web site is finally finished and running on a new web-host.  The old site served us well for the past 4-1/2 years, but it was becoming a little dated and difficult to maintain & update.  The new site tries to be a little more streamlined and easier to navigate.  Behind the scenes the new site is much easier to update which will hopefully encourage us to keep the pages up to date and add new products to the site more quickly.  

Visually, the biggest goal for me was to get more actual photos up on the site.  The old site used a lot of stylized line drawings of our products, which was arguably a legitimate artistic style, but I yearned for more photos.  When I’m shopping around on line I want to  see pictures of the real thing.  Especially if the product is being made by a small company, I want to KNOW that they are actually producing the widget not just selling a design that hasn’t been physically realized yet.  Since we are a small, small company making somewhat expensive specialized gear, I felt it was important to show first-time customers that our products are really being made and used throughout the theatres of all shapes and sizes.

The latest addition to the new site is this blog.  I have no idea how many people will bother to read this, but I like the idea of giving a sneak peek into the company in a casual setting.  I intend to take the salesman hat off when writing on this blog and discuss some of the nitty-gritty details of scenic automation, programming, and general technology that interest me.  With any luck, it will interest 1 or 2 other people