Nardozzi Consulting launched yesterday late in the day. Yet another example of our prowess...

For more than 25 years John Nardozzi has been an innovative, driving force in the oilheat and petroleum industry. As “The Oilman’s Accountant,” John has helped retail oil dealers of all sizes to run their businesses more efficiently and profitably.

NardozziConsulting.com

We've been honored to be selected as a judge for the upcoming EPpy Awards, given in recognition to outstanding news and media web sites by Editor & Publisher. E&P is the national journal of the newspaper industry. We've been reviewing dozens of sites, ranking them on design, application of content, ease of use and more. There have been some real winners and some real dogs, even amongst some of the most popular news sites. We can't tell about the details, but watch for the EPpy Awards to be announced at the Interactive Media Conference and Trade Show in Las Vegas May 14-15, 2008..

It's been a long road, but we finally launched the Penikese Island Schools's redesigned web site this week. This site went through numerous iterations through the design phase until we struck the balance we were looking for between an upgrade to the site look and feel, and adhering to the tradition of the School's mission.

This site is the first I've worked on for Koa Media that incorporates some of my photography created on assignment for the client. You can see my work most prominently on the Home page in the Flash panel. All the images in that slideshow/movie are mine. I also have many images sprinkled throughout the site on various interior pages, but many images were made by others as well.

www.penikese.org

Hello everybody,

We've been super busy getting some projects wrapped up, along with the usual website maintenance, and starting new projects.

We spend about half of our time working on contract jobs that involve developing design/redesign jobs. We spend about a quarter of our time maintaining sites that we have either launched or taken over at a client's request. We spend the rest of the time on various in house projects, and other kinds of related support.

With just three people, and a lot of business, we're pretty busy all the time!

One of my functions here is to bring in new technology for us and our clients to use. The Blogger Widget for the Mac is the tool of the day. I am using it to write this blog entry, and I am finding it to be the difference between maybe thinking about doing a blog entry some day, to actually getting it done.

Gotta go, cg

After months of planning and weeks of effort we have launched the Koa Media web site. It’s more than just a new site; it reflects our new identity as well as more accurately depicts where we are as a company and how we service our clients. The entire process has certainly been a reminder to us about the need for client involvement in the development of the site. While much of the development of the new Koa site was similar to the process we follow with all of our projects, we had the additional burden of facing one of our toughest clients, ourselves.

At the beginning of the process I said to myself, “This will go smoothly. After all, we know the process intimately.” Hah. I watched myself be picky and indecisive and second-guess decisions during development of the logo. We argued about design components and what best represented where we are now and where we are going. We reviewed and re-edited copy.

Finally, thanks to everyone’s hard work both internally at Koa and externally with our participating associates, we have a site that will take us through the next phase of our business.

I’d especially like to thank Dave and Chris at Koa for their input in the design phase and their blood, sweat and tears during development; Ken Silvia for a great new logo that looks wonderful and tells a story; Bill McDonough for not only inspired copywriting, but helping to develop the message.

And thanks to all of our clients and vendors who have supported Koa.

Bert Jackson