Programming Intern Needed

By Tim Priebe on August 24, 2011 at 2:15 pm in General

It’s the marvelous fall season again, which means it’s time for a new intern here at T&S. Who doesn’t want to get everyone in the office coffee and make runs to Sonic during happy hour? Oh, and occasionally there’s actual programming involved.

This year we need one programming intern to work around 20 hours a week. As usual, we’re not too worried about experience level, but are most interested in someone who wants to learn.

If you’re interested in becoming an Orangite, give our job hotline a call at 237-8080. Be ready to leave a detailed message with the following information:

  1. Your name
  2. Your telephone number
  3. Your email address (please spell it out)
  4. Where you go to school
  5. Tell us why you think you would be perfect for this job

It’s okay if you get confused, just hang up and call back again. But try to do it before the tone sounds. We don’t need to hear a message with your heavy breathing on it.

Oh, and we’ll be taking applications through the job hotline until midnight September 11th. The internship will be for the duration of the 2011-2012 school year. Once again, the number is 237-8080.

New boss, new co-workers, new responsibilities

By Scott Maslar on May 19, 2011 at 7:13 am in General

Adam and ScottStarting a new job can be, well… awkward.

Everything is new.

New boss, new co-workers, new responsibilities.

Then, if youʼre a programmer, thereʼs a plethora of programs to learn and logins to memorize (I have at least three different passwords depending on what Iʼm logging into). Thatʼs not to mention the incredibly maze-ish file systems we get to navigate.

Week one is literally information overload.

Youʼd have to ask Adam and Keith to get an exact time, but Iʼm pretty sure I didnʼt go longer then five minutes without interrupting them to ask a question. Iʼm brand new to all of this and Iʼm trying my best to be a sponge.

Letʼs see, Iʼve worked on maintenance requests, burned launch cdʼs, learned our task system, performed troubleshooting, and edited training videos as well other small tasks during the last five days.

Everything is new, and itʼs testing my brains.

Donʼt think Iʼm complaining though, because the fact that everything is new is the best part.

New opportunities. New experiences. New challenges.

Oh, and I almost forgot to mention, my nameʼs Scott, and Iʼm new too.

Big Winner of Google Maps Contest

By Tim Priebe on March 16, 2011 at 1:34 pm in freebies

Congrats to Andy Moore, the winner of our Google Maps Contest. Here was his winning entry:

andymooreAt first I thought myself fortunate to find a wormhole in the space/time continuum just a few miles from my home. I mean, seriously, a website developer who can also travel through space AND time – I might even transfer my hosting to them for if they’d let me hop in the wormhole once or twice. Alas, I was saddened to learn that the Google Maps marker was simply in the wrong place. Guess I’ll head back to my basement for another round of Klingon language-acquisition flash cards.

Thanks to everyone who entered. Google did call us last week, but sadly they have not yet moved our listing.

If you like free stuff (and who doesn’t), be sure to check out our Facebook Page this week for a series of giveaways celebrating our 1,000 fans milestone.

Be funny, win money* (money is actually an iTunes gift card)

By Tim Priebe on March 7, 2011 at 9:30 am in General

tandsmapPicture a poor Google engineer, locked away in his Google dungeon, having to read problem report after problem report of bad locations on Google. Boring!

Let’s brighten up his day with some funny (but accurate) problem reports! And we’ll give the funniest entry a free $15 iTunes gift card.

Google Maps has our business in the wrong location. So if a lot of people report a problem, we think we’ll have a decent chance of (finally) getting it fixed. And we can cheer up a severely bored (we assume) Google employee’s day.

The following should just take a minute or too, although that depends on how much time you need to warm up your funny bone. We and the Google engineer would greatly appreciate it.

  1. Go to this link
  2. Before you start, make sure Google still has the location wrong. If the “A” marker is still up on Covell (it should be on Memorial), keep going.
  3. Click on the marker labeled “A”
  4. Click on the “More” drop-down in the bottom right of the box that just popped up
  5. Click on “Report a problem”
  6. Select “Listing contains incorrect information or spam” (should be the first option)
  7. Under “What information is incorrect?” select “Marker Location”
  8. Fill out the comment (for funny and hilarious suggestions, see below).
  9. Copy and paste your comment, THEN click the Report Problem button.
  10. Navigate back to our blog page to enter in your funny comment (more details below).

Now we’re to the part where you need to convey that the marker is wrong. Basically, the marker is up on Covell, and should be down on Memorial, where the address is actually located. We want you to convey that information, but make it funny. Here are examples:

Boring comment:

Marker location is in the wrong position. It’s on the wrong side of town, and should be where the address is actually located.

Funny comment (relatively speaking):

Unless a tornado picked up T&S Web Design and moved them (and that is possible in Oklahoma), their marker is on the wrong location. It says it’s at 2801 E Memorial Road, which is correct, but for some reason the marker is not in the right place.

Hilarious comment:

Hello. I would like to report an inaccuracy in the location of T&S Web Design in Edmond, Oklahoma. When I drove to the location indicated in Google Maps, I arrived in a residential neighborhood. When I knocked on the door of one of the houses, instead of a web designer answering, a rather curious old man answered. He invited me in for tea. The next few minutes are rather blurry. I remember something about a straitjacket, a magician and a locked trunk. When I came to, it was three days later, my wallet was gone, and I was in the middle of a field. And, of course, I still didn’t have a website. Later I learned that while the address on the Google Maps location is correct, the marker is in the wrong location.

Of course, your comment does not have to be that long.

**Before you submit your comment, make sure you copy it and paste it as a comment at the bottom of this blog entry, or on this blog’s post on our Facebook page.

We’ll select the winner on Monday, March 14th and announce it on the blog and our Facebook page. Let us know if you have any problems, otherwise good luck, and we and the Google engineer thank you!

EDIT 2011-03-12: PG or tamer responses only, please.

Edmond, Oklahoma Small Business of the Year Finalist Video

By Tim Priebe on February 21, 2011 at 8:37 am in Video

As you may already know, T&S Web Design was one of three finalists for the Edmond Small Business of the Year award recently. And that was out of a record-setting 75 nominees! Congrats to Edmond Life and Leisure, who actually won the award, and to Krista Jones, DDS, the other nominee.

All three finalists had a short video shown at the Awards Banquet, and we just got our copy late last week. Here, for your viewing pleasure, is a very short video about T&S.

And, although we already posted many pictures on the T&S Web Design Facebook Page, here’s a select few.

Why Oranges?

By Tim Priebe on November 8, 2010 at 7:23 am in General

Orange HeadWe have oranges on almost all our marketing materials. We have them on our website, fliers, business cards, etc. (Actually, everyone picks their fruit for their business cards, but I get to use oranges.) We even refer to T&S staff as Orangites. We get a lot of clients asking us about them, though. Why oranges?

Back in early 2009, Dave Roach was one of our designers. He was doing most of the work on our website redesign at the time, and threw some oranges in as a place-holder because they looked tasty. As it turned out, everyone who looked at them thought they looked great. Delicious and visually appealing.

Also, it turned out we could have fun with the whole thing across our brand. We added an orange-o-meter to our website. We started sending orange soda (among other things) to clients when their websites launched. We also started calling T&S staff by the name Orangites.

In fact, it turned out that Orangites was a great name! Not only was it consistent branding, but it was actually kinda accurate. So, with no further ado…

Top 5 reasons T&S Orangites are really like Oranges

5. We come in many varieties, all awesome.

4. Much like oranges, hanging around Orangites will help stave off scurvy. (Based on anecdotal evidence only. If you actually have scurvy, please contact a physician.)

3. All Orangites have navels.

2. We’re generally pretty sweet.

1. One word: Cuties.

Of course, the analogy isn’t perfect…

5 ways Orangites are not like Oranges

5. You can’t buy us in the grocery store.

4. We are not as acidic as household vinegar.

3. It’s NOT a good idea to lock us in your fridge.

2. Our peels cannot be used as a slug repellent.

1. Nobody here is named Julius.

We want you to work at T&S: 283-6459

By Tim Priebe on November 2, 2010 at 4:47 pm in General

shootingadamAlert! Alert! T&S is looking for someone to be a fantastic administrative assistant who may also have an interest in marketing. The position is 20-40 hours a week. That person should be awesome in the following areas:

  • Talking on the phone
  • Email
  • Typing and doing paperwork
  • Social networking
  • Mailing stuff
  • Making Tim frappuccinos
  • Shooting interns with rubber bands
  • Laughing at Adam’s jokes, even when they’re not funny

We’ll also accept people who would like to become awesome in those areas. (Laughing at Adam’s jokes takes practice.)

Interested? Leave a message at 405-283-6459, including your name, email address (spell it out), phone number, and why you’d be a great fit for T&S.

Great Open House!

By Tim Priebe on July 19, 2010 at 6:00 am in General

Thanks to all fifty plus people who made it out to our open house. We’d especially like to thank our sponsors who supplied door prizes:

Below are some picture highlights of the event. You can check out tons more pictures on our Facebook album.

Websitepalooza: Websites for $595 in just an hour

By Tim Priebe on July 9, 2010 at 8:00 am in General,Workshops

Websitepalooza

talkingheadIt’s that time again. On July 22nd, just one hour can get you a website for hundreds of dollars less than it normally costs. Quick, easy and affordable.

Have the pros here at T&S set up a basic ten page website, select and register a domain name, and host your site for one year. The only cost after the initial year will be for continued hosting.

This is half the price of our starter sites! There are a limited number of time-slots available. Once the slots are filled, you’ll have to wait until the next Websitepalooza, and who knows when that will happen?

Check out all the Websitepalooza details.

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