Z-Com: Creative Words and Images provides website design, development, marketing strategy and a full range of creative services

Here's the elevator pitch: Z-Com is a full-service marketing company with a strong emphasis in online media. Our philosophy is centered on storytelling: By telling our clients's story in the best way possible, we help forge an emotional bond with clients and prospects. In the end, we want to care about the people we do business with -- and business is still very much about people.

Mass Email is Not Spam

I've begun a mass-email campaign using a client's opt-in list and they've gotten terrific results. We're getting increased click-throughs, we're getting more traffic, and most important, we're getting conversions.
 

Special Offer: 20% off Drupal website upgrade/conversion from Z-Com

We emailed this special offer to our current client base but are offering it to anyone with an existing website. Read on...

 

Time for some better art direction

Okay, now that we're up and running and fully Drupal-ized around here, it's high time Z-Com Creative's own site got some better art direction. It's next on the list...right after my half-dozen sites get built and I have time to breathe. It might be a while. Judge my work by the work, not by my homepage.

Latest launch: Swing Real Estate

Finally, after beginning work a year ago on content development, we're launching the sexy new Swing Real Estate website today! This one's new for me not only because we implemented Drupal in lots of interesting new ways, but because we integrated a very attractive MLS search thing into the site. Highest praises for Diversified Solutions, whose Google Maps-based IDX frame made this site possible.

New Site (re)Launched: University Vet!

This is the third version of www.universityvet.com I've lauched. They're the biggest vet in the east valley and an excellent client. This is my second major commercial Drupal launch, and I've done a lot more fancy stuff at universityvet.com than the first time. Good site, gets the job done. I'm looking forward to seeing how their viewership reacts to all the cool new stuff we've got going on.

Drupal is now Z-Com's current official CMS solution

Now that I've spent the past three months really exploring the possibilities and limitations of Drupal, I feel confident in offering this solution to my clients. Website clients going forward who need a complete content management system will be receiving a Drupal build. Past clients will be upgraded as needed. If you're one of our clients and want to talk about the benefits and costs of this upgrade, contact me.

I think I've got this thing figured out.

So I successfully and very quickly updated Z-Com and all my testbed sites to Drupal 6.10 today, and it was pretty painless. Combined with the various and somewhat constant little module upgrades, it all goes very smoothly now. I wish I could fully automate it, but I suppose it's good that there's still a hands-on component to site management.

First Drupal site is up

So I got my first commercial Drupal site up and running: www.360teambuilding.com. It's still slightly Drupal-y (blocky) but functionally it's very nice. I like this new method a lot. Moving it from testbed to final home wasn't even that big a deal.
I was able to include all the Analytics code goodness in it right off the bat, which was nice.

Starting from scratch!

Well, I started the whole Drupal thing from scratch. I was a little intimidated by the prospect of uninstalling and then reinstalling everything, but it's not bad at all. I'm having trouble getting one of my proto-testbed sites to come up. That's disappointing and confusing. In better news, I've got image uploads licked.

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