Andy Milk Interactive

Together with EDB Media, we helped develop and launch ArtZizzle.com, a site with “Contemporary art to view, collect and showcase.”

Check it out: http://www.artzizzle.com

There’s a lot of cool stuff going on on ArtZizzle.com. From a user interface perspective, there are animating site tours, both AJAX and Flash, an interactive room viewer that allows users to upload photos of a room in their house and place artwork from the site on the wall. From a technical perspective, there’s a fully-featured user rewards program, online registration and membership purchase, user order history, AJAX-enabled shopping cart, and payment processing integration. From a content management perspective, everything is dynamic, from all the art photos to audio and video associated with artists and exhibitions, to the about and legal information.

From an artist or art collector’s point of view, it’s a beautifully designed platform for showcasing, describing, and purchasing art.

Take a look and pick up a piece!

In conjunction with Caroset Media (http://www.carosetmedia.com), we helped launch a fascinating site called LostManProject.com. It showcases Chris Schoenbohm’s worldwide travel and work in HDR photography. Don’t know what HDR photography is? It speaks for itself.

Check it out:
LostManProject.com

Blue Box Group

To put it simply, these guys are the best.

Here’s a few reasons why:

• They offer both Shared and Virtual hosting solutions for Rails
• Plans can start as cheap as $10/month.  This is a shared server but you have MANY Ruby gems at your disposal.
• Virtual plans start at $25/month and you can upgrade as the need arises (memory low, site lag, traffic increases, etc.)
• Their support is as easy as sending an email.  I usually get at least a “I’m looking into this now” email within 30 minutes.  I don’t have to use any sort of support ticket system.  They offer one (and the emails feed into it), but they don’t require it.
• These guys KNOW their Rails environments, deployment recipes, common bugs, and plugins.  There’s almost never a question they can’t answer, or at least point me in the right direction

I’m using them for several projects, both internal and client projects.  I’m recommending them to anyone who needs Rails hosting.

Here they are: http://www.blueboxgrp.com/

I love their tagline: “Where Ruby on Rails hosting isn’t a headache!”