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They chose the YWD Content Management system for its flexibility and ease of use, and hired us to do a complete design overhaul.
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www.montcrest.on.ca
Founded in 1961, Montcrest School is a co-educational, non-denominational independent school whose campus overlooks Riverdale Park in the Broadview and Danforth area in Toronto. They chose the YWD Content Management system for its flexibility and ease of use, and hired us to do a complete design overhaul. The website contains hundreds of pages that are maintained and updated directly by the Montcrest staff.
The new design reflects Montcrest's new branding and its co-educational community aspect, small enough to honour the individual and big enough to provide an exceptional academic experience with balanced opportunities in leadership, the arts, and athletics.
Montcrest also needed to provide an online calendar that could be easily accessible through the main website or on its own and from a variety of devices. For that, we specified WordPress – we're platform agnostic here at Your Web Department – and integrated it seamlessly with the main website in the YWD patform, whose CMS is much simpler to use than WordPress.
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Flavio Mester is a graphic designer as well as a systems analyst (in a distant life he was an architect). A founding partner of Your Web Department, he's responsible for the design and development of all the YWD website management platform interfaces.
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As you may have noticed, we have just recently completely changed the look of our public website. It is now...
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As you may have noticed, we have just recently completely changed the look of our public website. It is now more focused and direct, hopefully making clear our core message that we’re not just web developers that have their own platform, but rather that we’re there whenever businesses need us.
A website isn’t an end on itself; it’s not a static event. It is a journey, and as such it evolves over time, and we here at Your Web Department has been evolving and growing alongside our clients since 2006. This post will show the evolution of our own website, reflected not just by its changing art direction but also by its core message. So here we go:
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Flavio Mester is a graphic designer as well as a systems analyst (in a distant life he was an architect). A founding partner of Your Web Department, he's responsible for the design and development of all the YWD website management platform interfaces.
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We have entered a new era of platform wars. It’s been an interesting evolution. In the beginning when our...
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 We have entered a new era of platform wars. It’s been an interesting evolution. In the beginning when our computing world centred around operating systems and desktops, Microsoft was king. As CPM, Zenith 100 and Tandy TRS fell by the wayside leaving MacOS as the only useful competing desktop operating system I’m sure Microsoft thought the world was theirs.
Who knew it wasn’t the computer on your desk that was important but the computer in your pocket? The device that is with you all the time. And if you look at how the world has changed with all those hordes out there doing little but staring at their phones all day you know we’ve passed the tipping point.
I can see the day when everyone will be wearing GoPro cameras on their foreheads so they can continue to stare down at their phones while having a forward facing view in a tiny box on their screens. Walking and working at the same time.
But now with the advent of car connected devices and home automation we are onto a whole new platform war? Are we now going to have to pick our cars based on mobile OS compatibility? “I really like that car but if it only supports Android then I can’t buy it.” “I love the home but my phone is not HomeKit compatible, sorry.” This is a bit weird.
Frankly, I don’t see it lasting. At some point legislators are going to establish some kind of open source standard for all manufacturers to follow.
“I’d love to try to save you, sir, but the defibrillator is an Apple Health Kit device and I only have an Android phone. Looks like you’re gonna die, sir.”
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Paul Chato has been many things: a graphic designer, programmer, comedian, head of network TV comedy, game producer, 3D animator, playwright, event host, director and anything else that matches his fancy. Most of the time he pulls the levers at YourWebDepartment.com.
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The other day I was thinking, what makes Your Web Department unique?
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Well, that's a hairy bold statement. Prove it!
The other day I was thinking, what makes Your Web Department unique? And after building more than 2,000 websites and working with every kind of small business owner out there, I can confidently write that we know where you're coming from. We understand your anxiety and we know what works.
 All our website competition treats building a website as if you were preparing to climb Mt. Everest. They spend an endless amount of time (and your budget) putting together the branding experience and the positioning framework. Then with the help of very expensive programming sherpas you scale the website mountain. You are at the peak. You are euphoric. (probably because the air is a bit thin)
But then you want some changes. Darn you need those damn programming sherpas. It’s expensive to get them to climb back up.
And you realize your business has changed. Your customers really like this other thing you’re doing. You need to make adjustments to the design of your website, but you can’t afford to. You just can’t scale another mountain.
Your Web Department is a completely different website build and maintenance experience. YWD is a journey, not a destination, which just happens to be exactly what a small business is.
We built Your Web Department for small businesses under the assumption that most small businesses are in a constant state of evolution and change. So obviously building a website and leaving it unchanged for 5 years doesn’t make any sense, does it? Yet that is exactly what many business owners do because a) you paid so much for it you want to recoup your investment, b) the agency you hired does the website updating and you hate paying for changes.
While we still strongly recommend that you get your branding and content requirements pulled together before starting your website, with Your Web Department it’s not required because you can easily change content and update the design as things change. And as we all know, even with the best of plans your business will change because as a business person you have only one goal and that is to stay in business. Nokia started by making rubber boots, after all.
Only Your Web Department understands the role of constant change in small businesses. We built our No-code, self-managed YWD website platform to accommodate it. We built our customer service process around it and we built our website design services around it. Using LiveBuild, we'll even build your website for FREE.
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Paul Chato has been many things: a graphic designer, programmer, comedian, head of network TV comedy, game producer, 3D animator, playwright, event host, director and anything else that matches his fancy. Most of the time he pulls the levers at YourWebDepartment.com.
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Watch Detail is a web magazine for watch enthusiasts who care about the details of their favorite timepieces and who want up-to-date information about new models from a perspective that goes beyond the press release.
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www.watchdetail.com
Watch Detail is a web magazine for watch enthusiasts who care about the details of their favorite timepieces and who want up-to-date information about new models from a perspective that goes beyond the press release. We cover all the brands, news, events and shows as fellow enthusiasts, reporters and watch industry insiders.
Editor in Chief Carol Besler has written about watches for more than 25 years. From 1990 to 2005 she was editor and eventually publisher of Canadian Jeweller magazine, while contributing regularly to several other publications: International Watch, Robb Report, Patek Philippe Magazine, Financial Post, Journal Haute Horlogerie, Fashion Magazine and Worth. From 2006 to 2009 she was editor of the ladies edition of International Watch and remains a regular contributor to several publications, including the above, as well as Watch Journal, Chronos, The New York Times (Watch Your Time), Nuvo, Experience (for Bombardier) and the custom watch and jewelry magazines published by Tufts Communications, where she is editorial director.
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Flavio Mester is a graphic designer as well as a systems analyst (in a distant life he was an architect). A founding partner of Your Web Department, he's responsible for the design and development of all the YWD website management platform interfaces.
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Signet Christian School goes live with new website created by Your Web Department
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www.signetschool.ca
It was founded as Scarborough Christian School in 1974 by a group of committed parents who wanted their children, and those of other families in the community, to receive a quality education. The school is dedicated to maintaining high academic standards, together with an underlying Christian philosophy that promotes good morals and good life skills. It was, and continues to be, a nondenominational, nonprofit, charitable organization, with a board of directors appointed by the members of the organization.
Your Web Department designed and built Signet’s new website, which allows them to easily manage the content. Separate websites for additional languages are in the plans.
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Flavio Mester is a graphic designer as well as a systems analyst (in a distant life he was an architect). A founding partner of Your Web Department, he's responsible for the design and development of all the YWD website management platform interfaces.
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Riverhorse Advisors engaged Your Web Department for a complete redesign of their existing website. The result is a clean, approachable and inviting website that they can easily update on their own, which includes an integrated blog, online forms and more.
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www.riverhorseadvisors.com
Riverhorse was founded in 1998 to help clients engage stakeholders, achieve their most critical business objectives and own their space.
From research to understand the real issues, to developing tightly focused strategies and tactical plans, to help getting it done, they help businesses achieve real success.
They engaged Your Web Department for a complete redesign of their existing website. The result is a clean, approachable and inviting website that they can easily update on their own, which includes an integrated blog, online forms and more.
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Flavio Mester is a graphic designer as well as a systems analyst (in a distant life he was an architect). A founding partner of Your Web Department, he's responsible for the design and development of all the YWD website management platform interfaces.
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Complex2Clear chose Your Web Department to do a complete design makeover of their website. It now properly reflects their professionalism and areas of expertise, and can be easily updated by the Complex2Clear team without any coding.
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www.complex2clear.com
Complex2Clear is a sales-focused B2B communications agency founded in 1988. They provide strategy, process and content that win bid contracts and position clients as market leaders.
Their clients include large corporations like Bombardier – who they helped win a $300 million bid – as well as General Motors, Industry Canada, Allstate Insurance and many others. Complex2Clear chose Your Web Department to do a complete design makeover of their website. It now properly reflects their professionalism and areas of expertise, and can be easily updated by the Complex2Clear team without any coding.
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Flavio Mester is a graphic designer as well as a systems analyst (in a distant life he was an architect). A founding partner of Your Web Department, he's responsible for the design and development of all the YWD website management platform interfaces.
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Another wonderful blog post. Total unsolicited from one of our clients, Monica Yother. Now we will have to keep...
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 Another wonderful blog post. Total unsolicited from one of our clients, Monica Yother. Now we will have to keep up the high standards you have accused us of maintaining.
The Design You Don't See - Monica Yother
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Paul Chato has been many things: a graphic designer, programmer, comedian, head of network TV comedy, game producer, 3D animator, playwright, event host, director and anything else that matches his fancy. Most of the time he pulls the levers at YourWebDepartment.com.
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Hi everyone. This blog post by Bruce Hunter of Lighthouse360 is so fantastic I had to link to it. It's...
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Hi everyone. This blog post by Bruce Hunter of Lighthouse360 is so fantastic I had to link to it. It's called, "Leaders Lead."
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Paul Chato has been many things: a graphic designer, programmer, comedian, head of network TV comedy, game producer, 3D animator, playwright, event host, director and anything else that matches his fancy. Most of the time he pulls the levers at YourWebDepartment.com.
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