SoFla Web Studio

2nd Annual Regional Small Business Conference & Bootcamp

Don't miss out this Thursday, May 19, 2011 at the Anne Kolb Nature Center in Hollywood Florida.
From 8:00am - 2:30pm.

Registration is FREE

The Cities of Hollywood, Dania Beach, Miramar, Hallandale Beach and Pembroke Pines along with Broward County's Office of Economic and Small Business Development, South Florida Regional Planning Council, Greater Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, Greater Dania Beach Chamber of Commerce, Regions Bank and Liberia Economic and Social Development, Inc., have partnered to host the Second Annual Regional Small Business Conference and Bootcamp on May 19, 2011.

The event is FREE and seating is limited. To register, contact the City of Hollywood Office of Business & International Trade, 954.921.3388

Aquatic Systems is one of the leading Lake and Wetland Management companies in the state of Florida. They restore and maintain private, commercial and public lakes, waterways, wetlands and preserves from overgrowth of algae and exotic species, poor water quality, and fish kills. Their former site was a 10-page static HTML site. Their goal was to not only update the look of their website, but to be able to add press releases, articles, and case studies in order to become the online resource for their industry.

"Help Help Smoker!!"
"I'm pinned, someone get me up."
"Hang on a second and let me heal you up."

The date was Friday the 13th and I would like to say it was a dark and stormy night, but the truth was it was a bright and sunny afternoon. We actually had to close the blinds in our South Florida offices because the sun was producing too much glare on our monitors.

The event was a huge success and saw our team working together for a common goal. So much so that exactly one week after we all got together again, off-hours, to complete the next level together.

If only we had a few more hours in the day... We have been using an internal web application to track our studio's work for many years now. We call it the EZHitlist and it is a very simple job and time tracking application that can be used for any type of task or project. What began as a simple spread sheet and is currently a robust PHP application is now looking to become an iphone application. The only problem is that since this is an internal application, it always comes after our client work. Here is a little history:

2000 - Excel Spreadsheet 2002 - Single page web app that writes to a text file 2003 - added ability to track multiple clients 2004 - MySQL database and full php support. Created print versions and ticketing system. 2004 - Ability to add multiple clients and multiusers. 2005 - Added time tracking, invoicing & created client portal. Interface overhaul. 2006 - Added minor reporting features. 2008 - Moved to a live web server (outside of our network). Still in Beta. 2009 - Iphone Web Application Support???

A new coat of paint and a little oil can go a long way...
We began working with Lou Lamoureux (the transplant athlete) several months ago. He has been running his  e-commerce website (www.cycling-videos.com) and selling training and fitness videos and books for several years.  He started small and did all of the work himself up to the point that he contacted SoFla Web Studio.