Last fall we mentioned that there were some geographic changes on the way, and here they are… As of this summer, I’ll be heading to the east coast and joining Rhys in Brooklyn!

For our Seattle-based coworkers, colleagues, and clients, I’m sorry we won’t be able to meet face to face too often anymore, but we don’t anticipate any other changes to our working relationship. If you have any concerns or questions about this move, please get in touch.

I’m excited to be joining physical forces with Rhys again after many years of living and working 2000 miles apart. It’ll be great to be geographically closer to some of our clients in New York, too.

This will mean some down time for me this summer — mostly during the month of June. We’ve already been discussing this with clients we’re actively working with. For anyone else who knows they’ll need work completed around that time, please let us know.

Wish me luck!

We built a simple web site for the New Mexico Rural Water Association (NMRWA) 5 years ago, and their tech-savvy staff has maintained the site content on their own ever since. The layout and code had started to show its age, though, so NMRWA recently hired us to revamp the site.

The new site is more responsive to the preferences of site visitors (it expands with the browser window, any modern browser can change the font sizes, etc), and is vastly improved under the hood (page semantics, accessibility, search-engine-optimization). The site integrates a phpBB-based forum, with simple theming to tie it in to the look and feel rest of the site.

NMRWA continues to maintain the site content, but now they’ve got a modern framework to build on! As always, we take it as the highest compliment that we’re able to maintain such long-term relationships with our clients.

Visit the new NMRWA site at nmrwa.org.

Times change. The seasons come and go. After many years, Rhys and I are sick of being “geographically-tied”, so we’re dropping the “dtekeast” and “dtekwest” monikers. (And it looks like we’ve got some geographic changes upcoming, anyway…)

So for now — and we know this is revolutionary — we’ll refer to ourselves simply as “Andy” and “Rhys”. Our email addresses will change accordingly.

We pride ourselves on getting to know our clients, and The Atlanta School shows why — TAS is full of great folks and fantastic educators that have been friends and colleagues for many years. But rebuilding TAS’ web site at theatlantaschool.com was special to us for another reason: the old web site was the very first that Rhys and I ever built together, back in 1999! Then known as DPC Productions, we poured a lot of heart into the site, if it was certainly showing its age by 2007…

The new site sports a gorgeous, fluid design that of course highlights the creative energy of the students. It has an integrated blog, powered by WordPress, and colorful galleries of artwork, photos, and videos.

The Atlanta School is also where The Media Spot got its start — Rhys made his very first collaborative videos with TAS students. Check them out in the Video Gallery!

We’ll always be grateful for the creative support from the folks at The Atlanta School that helped us get started. We hope their new web site serves them well!

EDIT: Belated thanks to TAS for the kind words on their own blog.

Congratulations to my other half here at Dtek, my long-time friend and business partner Rhys. He was married last week at a gorgeous ceremony in Ojai, California. Cheers, Rhys and Nicole! May you enjoy a long, peaceful, prosperous life together.