[TYPO3-UG US] This is just about perfect...

[Alex Heizer]

The good thing is, with TYPO3.us, not only is our entire site, with all 
the functionality, going to run in the software we're "selling", the 
site will also have a single, consistent look and branding.

Go to the "Issue Tracking" link on the front page, and it goes to 
another software product. Their public wiki is powered by MediaWiki. 
Their forum is a phpBB forum. And you go to a subpage and it looks 
completely different than the main page. Not just a modification of the 
main design, but a different design.

If they don't have their act together and are getting such press, 
imagine what we could do once the t3us site goes live! :)

Alex



Gabriel Anast wrote:

>I know these guys have funding, but they did one hell of a good job:
>
>Press Release on News Forge by 'anonymous' (poorly written I might add):
>
>http://www.newsforge.com/newsvac/05/11/01/1452238.shtml
>
>Website (simple, colorful, their logo looks like something natural... 
>not like a bullet (!?), and that list of topics in the navigation links 
>is about as good as it gets):
>
>http://www.alfresco.org/
>
>Now I am not saying that they are a competitive offering, just that they 
>have marketing down... if none of us ever makes it farther than their 
>first page, I don't think it will matter, but that first page, and that 
>press release... that is what we NEED to do for TYPO3.
>
>Look down the page in the green NEWS box... these guys are the press 
>release masters... Press Releases (and b2b conferences) are how middle 
>managers and PHB's find out about... well, anything. They do not browse 
>Source Forge,  Fresh Meat, or Slashdot... and they do not care about 
>anything they cannot get a brochure or multi-page color ad about in the 
>mail. AND... these guys control millions of dollars. Millions. I know. I 
>WAS one for a couple years (what a nightmare!). I didn't control 
>millions, but I did make the decision to buy a new accounting package 
>($40,000 + $3500/year) for a $10M company that I worked for.
>
>By the way, it looks to me that they ripped off the TYPO3 colors... 
>what's up with that? Not only that, but they did a very nice job with 
>them...
>
>--gabe
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