Jason Clarke

Well, it’s been quite a while (in blog years, get it – like “dog years”? Yuk yuk yuk!) since I’ve posted on any of my blogs – here, TUMW or DownloadSquad. Hopefully though, after this weekend I’ll have turned a corner, and can get back to my daily ranting, raving, and incoherent babbling.

So what was taking up all of this time? I’ve been busily putting together a website for my wife’s new venture, Striking Connections. She’s doing custom cards for birth announcements, invitations, holidays and special events that typically take more than one photo, and use them in a tasteful design. The concept for the business grew out of the positive reactions we received regarding Milo’s birth announcement, and our subsequent Christmas cards.

Of course, like any (ad)venture, this one has not been without hiccups. After spending nearly a month on the original site, I discovered that getting the payment system working was bigger trouble than I’d anticipated. I enlisted my brother-in-law’s help, and unfortunately after almost a full day’s work a week ago today, we became very confident that I’d chosen the wrong software platform to run my wife’s site.

Now, it’s important to understand that today was a sort of soft deadline for us – Fran bought an ad in a quarterly magazine that hits the streets today, so we needed a functional site up by today at the latest. So that left me a week to redo the entire site. I didn’t think I could do it; I ended up taking Friday off of work so I could work on it exclusively. As it stands, I’m quite happy with the progress I made in a week. There are rough edges and lots of polish is missing, but I’m not going to tell you where. Hopefully the first impression is good.

So if you’re looking for birth announcements, 1st birthday invitations or even a Happy Easter card, drop by Striking Connections and have a look through out stuff.

Tags: custom cards, cards, birth announcements, birthday invitations