Catalyst Design Services Blog

Catalyst Design Services Launches the Austin Housing Market Website (www.austinhousingmarket.com), a website dedicated to helping home buyers and sellers in the central Texas region. Whether you’re buying, selling, investing in real estate or needing a great home loan,  this is the right place to go.

The website for the Texas title closing company Patten Title, (http://www.PattenTitle.com) has been officially launched. The site features an administration backend allowing the client to update their site in several spots & allow their customers to place orders and subsequently feed into a database. Also featuring is a micro site called Spotlight Austin, which is a networking event held every first Thursday of every month highlighting the various real estate developments in the city of Austin.

Catalyst Design has just finish launching the newly revamp Criminal Law website for Attorneys and Counselors at Law, Chris Dorbandt and Associates. (http://www.criminallawintexas.com). Complete with a blog, flash video, Google Custom Site Search, and much more, this site packs a plethora of essential web 2.0 features.

This marks the 9th custom design site launched thus year for Catalyst Design.

If you are interested in getting your site designed by Catalyst Design Services, please contact us at info@catalystdesignservices.com and we invite you to please view are previous website work at http://www.catalystdesignservices.com/work.php.

More website launches are in the works to be launched very soon. Come back very soon.

Catalyst Design Services has relaunched http://www.AustinCondos.net with a brand new face lift with a much cleaner more inviting look. The site now focuses primarily on the Round Rock Condo Golf Course Community, Forest Creek.

If you are interested in getting your site designed by Catalyst Design Services, please contact us at info@catalystdesignservices.com and we invite you to please view are previous website work at http://www.catalystdesignservices.com/work.php.

More website launches are in the works to be launched very soon.

Catatlyst Design Services has just launched the Revamped Green Eco Friendly Condominium website for Swanee 21 (http://www.swanee21.com). The look and feel of the site emulates the previous Catalyst designed perryhenderson.com.

Swanee 21 is a modern community of 21 unique floor plans, eliminating the cookie cutter look many developments have.

More Catalyst Designed Websites are on the horizon of becoming live. Stay Tuned…

Catalyst Design Services has just launched the redesigned website for Spicewood Development (www.spicewooddevelopment.com), land & community developer for the Central Texas Region. The site now features a much cleaner and simplistic stylistic look with an less cluttered and much more efficient php interface. More websites are set to be launched and will be posted here officially once they are very very soon.

Ok, Ok, as you can see, I am an avid Google fanatic. Its the simple fact they offer quality services at little to no cost to consumers helping making all our lives easier.

Here is something you will find very handy when on the road and you need an address or phone number for a business listing. 1-800-GOOG-411 is an automated business directory service that is completely FREE. I find it very useful and accurate. I love the fact you can opt to receive a text message as opposed to hearing and memorizing on the fly the information you are looking for. Check out this brief video on how it works:

For More Information on 1-800-GOOG-411, Check out http://www.google.com/goog411/

Google Apps has been a savior in so many ways for my business.

Your Domain Email Hosted by Google + Google Talk for FREE
One of the first things you will enjoy when joining is the fact you can host your domain email (youremail@yourdomainname.com) with Google Email Servers. So you get all the benefits of Gmail’s mastery of destroying spam, setup your email via POP or IMAP with Outlook & /or your portable device & the best Webmail client ever with Gmail. Finally, there is Google talk the IM program you can utilize for anyone inside the company or outside if you so do choose. Google talk can be downloaded to your computer or if you do not want to use your hard drive you can use Google talk and login online. And all is FREE, because its Google.

Google Calendar for Your Company
In addition you can get a free online calendar for all those in your business to communicate. Not only can you communicate via the web, but you can sync it to Outlook going in both directions or one or the other. And you can create multiple calendars that are designated for whomever you choose. You can also invite people outside your domain or business to join your calendar. Finally, you can even embed your calendar onto your website with easy copy and paste code.

Google Docs and Google Sites
Finally there is Google Docs and the most recent addition to Google Apps, Google Sites. With Google Docs you can upload your Microsoft Office application(s) such as your Excel Spreadsheet, Powerpoint Presentation or Word Document and collaborate/edit these docs online with others. You can then export them later if you so do choose to your computer.

Finally Google Sites is rather similar except this will deal more along the lines of projects collaboration which include handing assignments, ability to upload files, creating quick WYSIWYG websites etc. Great online collaborative tool for those projects where people aren’t in the same office.

So to conclude, Google Apps is a must and its all FREE. These are just some of the highlights of the services. It will prove, like it does for me, an extremely valuable tool for your small business.

To get started, visit www.google.com/a

Catalyst Design has just finish designing, coding and launching 3 more websites. These include:

RestCmi.com - Restoration Christian Ministries, Interntational
Ca-Rise.com - Relating Issues Stimulating Expectations
BuscemeBlackDog.com - Busceme’s Black Dog Fishing & Guide Services

Both RestCmi.com & Ca-Rise.com were custom designed websites and BuscemeBlackDog.com was designed around a Catalyst Website Template.

More sites are about to be launched in the coming weeks. For more information on how to get your site designed by us, please email info@catalystdesignservices.com.

Ever wanted to know how to clock the speed of your internet connection, whether it be DSL or Cable Broadband? There is a great site called Speedtest.net that allows you to do this. Its useful when you feel your connection is slug and not performing up to par and want to check it. Simply click on the yellow pyramid (which is your approximate destination) and it will will do the rest! You can also compare your speed with others in your area.