2008

May

The family hard at work.

“I like my sense of humor”
— Me

Blog author page content for me

I adore all thing dealing with Clemson, the pig, great business ideas, good bourbon, Braves...

Josie’s not happy with Sarko’s new found love of...

“That’s why you triple check your work”
— Jimmy C

For no good reason, a slide show of Josie and Ivy playing in the OC parking lot.

Jim, Evan, and Josie

Jim’s brother (Justin), sister-in-law (Mattie), and...

Content is being entered at a feverish rate right now. Many, many projects are getting full...

Evan’s changed homing pigeons to smoke signals on this round of the contact page. No doubt the...

I can't post on the Yeti anymore because data...

This should be a last Friday working on OC4! The launch is soonish.

Apr

Our Philosophy

We started OrangeCoat in 2004 with the simple goal of doing quality work everytime. We don’t...

And when I say “within the week” I mean within seven days.

Shhh…..we might launch both OC4 and AF2 within the week. Exciting times.

A partial snap shot of what got done and got assigned...

“I don’t understand why mama cooking a breakfast with...”

Currently playing

New Feature- Events

The other major new feature for AF2 is the ability for users to create events. This is a simple...

New Feature- Now with more comments

Everything gets comments. In 1.0 forum posts and blogs were the only two ways to talk. In 2.0 you...

Jimmy C’s to do list

Example 1 of the flexibility of the site. The cornerstone of...

A little background on Athlete Focus. We designed and developed version 1 of Athlete Focus about a...

Graham just got interviewed by Waterski Mag...

“I am very pleased with how it is all going. I think its...”
— Graham, Leader of AF

OC Happy AF Day

We didn’t tumble last week and we might not be tumbling tomorrow but we are sitting around the...

“Michael are you CSSing or JSing?”
— Evan

Prayad Marksaeng was probably not the best Master draft pick I’ve ever made.

Rabushka on the Flat Tax- An EconTalk...

Huckabee's Tax Plan Is Brilliant- So why is...

Cigars w. Mr. Yanov Et. Al.

FWIW, FireFox 3 Beta 5 is best, most stable beta release by far. I like it a lot.

Office sofa has been slip covered. We are high society at the coat.

Currently playing at OC

It just seems like it would be a lot easier to vacuum Josie and not the floor.

Why Haven't You Been Tumbling Today?

MA is on his Honeymoon. Jimmy C is in New Jersey attending a wedding. It’s just me and Evan...

Mar

MA see what happens when you leave us for a day.

“If Evan was Evan’s client Evan would cuss Evan out.”
— Me

By the end of this day we might have completely new logo style, sitemap, and home page layout. ...

You: Aren't you guys only suppose to be working on OrangeCoat stuff on Fridays? What's with the EE meeting.
Me: Clients come first. We try our best to work on only OC stuff on Fridays but it doesn't always work.

The lunch meeting is finalized and so is the EE logo and...

Leaving the Coffee Underground for a lunch time meeting

Jeff’s second visit to the OC table today.

Evan's been using and liking Inkscape and...

An email from Evan yesterday on the new book...

Anyone know if it is possible to send to someone a link to chapter in a book? Does Amazon’s...

Coffee Networking

So far I’ve had CU conversations with Joe, Damien, and Jeff.

MA is off getting prepped for his wedding tomorrow. The rest of OC is doing some work from the...

Maybe somebody’s had too many homebrews.

Java stout microbrews a la Mevan have arrived.

“I think I need to change the spelling of my job title see...”
— An email from our Yoda of...

For our next slide show presentation......

Sitting around the conference room table, listening to Michael give instructions to a client on how...

Heading to Good Friday service with Lord. Be back in a bit.

A little David Sedaris in honor of Easter.

We are a gourmet web design company focused on helping entrepreneurs start companies and guiding...

Jimmy C’s morning.

Exciting news in the world of style- a sofa slip cover has been bought.

Evan: We've got a comment from Dan Cederholm
Jim C: We'll that changes everything

Evan = Lawerence Tierney

You remember that scene in Reservoir Dogs when Joe is going through his old address book and just...

MA is playing with Flash right now. We might have little Flash movie to show off later in the day.

More client less OC today.

I’m afraid our printer is infected by devils. It just printed off a strange sheet of paper. I...

Our friend Paivi sent us this picture from somewhere in...

Favicon at 400 pixels

The new contact form is sending contacts directly to Highrise. Good times.

Off to Barley’s for lunch, back in a few.

“I wish I could read Russian because I’m curious as to...”
— Evan

Just played a little bit with Google sites. I dig. I can see some uses.

“Evan, I don’t need your speculation.”
— Jimmy C.

THINGS I’VE LEARNED FROM OC’S FAMILY HAPPY...

Jim and especially Michael have spent some non-Friday time this week working OC4. It’s really...

We’re running a bit slow this morning, in part due to the fact we helped Jimmy C. celebrate...

Lord's list of things that are awsome.

The blog comments style is coded up and looking good.

The animated GIF is still alive!

NCover’s home page graphic

Apple’s new home page graphic

Speaker at lunch today: There is an old Chinese saying, "A man can never truly be happy unless he owns property."
Guy sitting next to me: Didn't Chairman Mao say that?

“I’m about to get serious on some contact form.”
— Jim C.

NSFW, there is a bunch of filth flarrin flirth.

Evan’s new profile picture

This nav is going to make Michael work

“Josie goes here. And by “goes”, I don’t...”
— Placeholder text for...

Because people seem to like the screen shots. A blog post...

Feb

The dance party continues

Listening to Master of Puppets always makes you work better.

The Beastie Boys channel on Pandora had everyone dancing.

We just hired Homer. Donut problems no more.

Google docs has updated its WYSIWYG. So you know.

“Array ( [#action] => /search/node [#attributes] =>...”
— The Ugly

“Alright, things are going to get ugly before they get...”
— Jimmy C.

We are thinking about hiring another person just so we have a better chance of finishing a 12pack of...

Happy Zning month everyone. Let the tumble begin.

The opening lines of our next email...

There’s a fine line between playing hard to get and just being hard to get. I think we crossed...

The image used on OC’s last email campaign. It was...

Evan has a crush on iPaper.

Google forms are the shiz.

“Whatever you do don’t go to a doctor and don’t...”
— MA

I left the camera at home, if you are looking...

Welcome back! We’re doing a half day today. OC in the morning, clients in the afternoon. On...

Remember the bouncing logo on OC2? We got some more logo fun for you on OC4.

Awesome everything on this old time baseball card.

Some beautiful currency design

Evan and Jim working

“Boy, I would never have imagined Evan with a poodle. What...”
— Jimmy C. (PS: Mevan is getting...

Design and code have started to mix into a lovely OC4 brew. Exciting times.

Josie's first attempt at writing ARG's...

Adam Gautsch-Born in Winston-Salem, raised in Martinsville, “Isn’t there a NASCAR track...

“Frederick Douglass was a badass.”
— EGT (picture proof)

“Who the heck is Nancy? I was trying to call Bobby!”
— MA

Thinking of both clever and useful bio content is hard. I’m thinking of letting Josie write...

Jimmy C making sure I’m doing my work.

'About the Team' content that has a 99%...

We have discerning tastes when it comes to web design, code, business ideas and barbecue. We...

'About the Company' content that has a...

Founded in 2004 as a way for Evan Tishuk and Adam Gautsch to fund their overwhelming bacon...

You: Are you using a site map software for OC4?
Me: Yeah, SiteMaps.com. Can't say I'm in love with the app. Probably will go back to good ol' fashion Roman Numeral outlines. The simpler the better.

Just heard a song from Leo Kottke. Wonder if he is any relation to Jason. What good is Wikipedia if...

We’ve moved to the Joe Strummer station but not before falling in love with 70’s Gansta...

“I took you out of the ghetto, but I could not get that...”
— Issac Hayes, Out of the...

Proposed copy for the 'What We Do' page....

Sometimes companies just need a website. Nothing more or less. We’ve been making great sites...

Great moments in Yeti history- Dancing with...

Background music of the moment 70's Gangsta...

A friend of the coat sent us an email earlier this week saying he felt it was a bad idea to pub the...

Me: Where are all my pictures
Tumblr: Sorry, images and audio are temporarily unavailable due to a complete outage of Amazon Web Services, our media host. Other post types are not affected.

Week two of the experiment is running a bit slow. Friday kinda snuck up on everyone and the proper...

Happy Hour. Until next time.

Found the first Yeti design on the Wayback...

Evan shooting MA with Airzoka

Evan has been sitting on his hand for a while.

Search results interface stamped.

“Wholly crap, it worked!”
— Always good to hear

“People keep telling us to stop working with entrepreneurs...”
— A possible excerpt from our...

We got a strange letter in the mail a week or so ago. What...