Like fine wine, the designs that distinguish one Nectar site from another (otherwise known as “tastes”) seem to get better with age. Our fearless design lead, Charles has poured countless hours into our initial Nectar Tastes and they’re looking mighty yummy. Cropped screenshots included for your viewing pleasure. Read the rest of this entry »
We want to give everyone an update on our progress with Nectar. First things first though: Happy Birthday to Aaron! He’s 23 today! Also, we never mentioned that Josiah had a birthday on September 25! Hooray for birthdays. We love these guys. Read the rest of this entry »
Once people learn about Nectar the most common follow up question we’ve received is “how much will this cost me?” Typically when considering professionally-designed websites, you are thinking in terms of thousands of dollars which is why this question is often asked with a bit of a grimace. Let me put your mind at ease my friend. Read the rest of this entry »
One of our core values at Nectar is openness and transparency, which is why we felt our rescheduled launch date needed a bit of explaining. If you’ve been following the countdown on our home page you realized that as of this morning, we added a couple of weeks to our timeline, which was due in large part to three factors: Read the rest of this entry »
After a few discussions and a myriad of wireframes tossed about, the back-end design/development is pushing forward full steam. For those of you curious as a cat, here are a few screenshots for your viewing pleasure.
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You’ve already met Aaron Harp from our Nectar Hackathon video. He’s the guy sitting by the window whose legs look like they’re possessed with this guy. Aaron is a long time friend of ours and a ninja PHP developer, which is why we are happy to announce that he’s officially joining the Nectar team! Aaron is responsible for all of the beautiful back-end functionality you will experience at our launch, so check out his blog @www.aaronharp.com and tell him how awesome he is.
Well not really, but we got off to a great start. After nearly two weeks of planning, our talented team of six took the initial steps towards launching Nectar. We locked ourselves at Brett’s house for an intense and highly productive weekend “hackathon” session. As a result of our efforts, we completed the design and coding for our first Nectar “Taste” — a technically complex, yet elegant site design called “Miniml”. Additionally, we programmed the back-end components which will power the purchase process, domain registration, and lifestream components. Finally, we designed several of the front-end sales & customer information pages, and launched the blog you are reading now. Read the rest of this entry »