Revamp of T1 Host

I've had in mind for a while that I'm wanting to revamp T1 Host.  Instead of offering many different types of services, I'm wanting to focus in specifically on the Manila Website offering, especially since that is what most of my customers use from T1 Host and it is where I have the most expertise and understanding to provide help to my customers.  Manila also provides the most flexibility in terms of offering good solutions to most customer needs.  Those all seem like great reasons to me to just decide to get rid of most of the other services and offer Manila, almost exclusively.

To that end, I have been working on a series of movies that will help people understand how you can use the software to develop your website.  I find that most people pick it up very quickly, but it does take a little orientation because it isn't the same as most websites.  Certainly, there are a lot of high-end technical aspects to Manila, but it can be used easily by most people, even those who would not consider themselves "technical" at all.  Those are the folks that I have in mind in my initial round of movies, but then I will turn my attention to some of the higher-end usability questions for Manila so you can fine-tune your website and use many of the functions available that most never utilize.  After that, I will work through all of the web designer features and show how to create one or multiple templates, include style sheets and javascript, and utilize macros as you become more and more sophisticated in including automated inclusion of content into the template for your site.

For now, I have published the first version of the first movie.  You can see it by clicking the link below.

Launch Movie!

Posted by Ryan Hale on August 22, 2007; 6:52:29 AM