TGIF FRIDAY'S US WebSite

Fridays Migrates to Cpanel

2008-01-09T16:01:00.000-08:00

Just Like The Birds Fly South For The Winter

Fridays has migrated itself to a new web hosting provider.

It wasn't that we didn't like our old webhosting provider, but we needed more options. The old provider was running Plesk and the new hosting provider is using CPanel and WHM for control. CPanel makes it much easier to perform certain tasks like single page redirects or add some pretty cool features through Fantastico De Luxe.

More About TGI

2006-05-17T00:22:00.000-07:00

More About Fridays

The TGI Motto

What is the TGI Motto?

It's "Thank God It's ..." Today's Choice: Thank God It's Wednesday, because just two more days till Friday.

In all seriousness folks, looking at things with a little Humor and a Thankful heart can be good for the soul. This is TGI, Chicken Soup For The Soul

Speaking of Souls, this soul wanted to change a few things online. I got tired of some of dull, lackluster, colorless, unexciting, common, unimaginative, flat, uninspiring, ho hum, brainless, usual, unimaginative, and passionless ideas on the Internet.

Speaking of Passion, What has happened to that lately? Sure, we have Passion for our TV shows like CSI, American Idol, House, Grey's Anatomy, CSI: Miami, Desperate Housewives, Without A Trace, NCIS, Survivor, 60 Minutes, Two and a Half Men, Deal Or NO Deal, and The Unit. But, where is the passion in people's souls? What has happened to the smiles and the friendly thank you?

Speaking of Smiles, Did anyone catch the news story of a 4-foot tall Pillsbury Doughboy held hostage? Good News, the Pillsbury Doughboy was recovered unbaked and he is so happy that he is going to dance for you. See the Dancing Pillsbury Doughboy. And, you can even create your own dance for him. Try mixing it up with some Disco, The Spin, or try the Robot.

Seems like I got on the Dance bandwagon here and slightly off track. Let's get back to the Web tracks. I saw the Internet grow from its early days when it was not much more than going to a website with just a bunch of files to look at in some list. It seems like it was yesterday that Mosaic, one of the early web browsers was created. A person with a dial up modem could go online and download this program for the early Apple PowerPC computers. I couldn't believe that all this information was Free. Here we were sitting in this virtual world and anything could be studied online. Now most of the world takes the Internet for granted. Even though millions of New Internet Users come online monthly.

Many businesses continue to underestimate the power of the Internet. Small businesses think that they do not need to have a website or any type of Internet presence. Some of the larger corporations are still living in the pre Internet world even though they might have a website online. Creativity and passion are lacking at some of these companies and what they share through their websites.

The Internet is more than about Marketing and Advertising your B2B Business to business, or B2C Business to consumer organization online. It is more than the sharing of information and ideas. It is more than a form for eCommerce. The Internet is really a vehicle for identifying the pulse of the world. Though it is a place to find information it is also a place to share information. The whole is greater than the sum of the individual parts.

New Technologies are continually being created based on the works of others. New ideas, inventions, products, and software programs are built and designed quicker than ever before because of the light speed at which information flows online. People all around the Globe are in collaboration with one another.

For business today to take advantge of the power of the Internet we only need to look to some creativity and passion online. Advertising and Marketing passion. Take a look at Pillsbury. They have placed some passion and creativity in their website. Pillsbury has built interactivity with their online readers. With the ability to create your own fun dance and email it to a fiend is pretty cool. I am sure that a designer put a lot of effort into creating the Dancing Doughboy; but think of the mileage that Pillsbury is getting with this. The concepts cover the whole range for Advertising, Marketing, Sales, and Branding. The website supports and adds to what the Pillsbury consumer will do at the local markets.

To find out how your Small Business or International Corporation can make a much bigger Impact using the Internet for marketing, advertising, and branding for increasing your business Sales and Leads, visit us at Professional Web Services, Inc. We provide Internet marketing services, Online advertising strategies, Web branding solutions, and Creative Ideas For Business Owners. Contact Professional Web Services today to find out how we can help your B2B or B2C company can generate more Sales and Leads tomorrow.

About TGIF Friday's US WebSite

2006-02-12T14:38:00.000-08:00

How Did TGIF Friday's US WebSite Get Started?

After years of getting B2B, B2C, and C2C Email with lots of interesting and fun filled tidbits of news and information passed from one Email person to another, and most of this seemingly to occur on Fridays of the week, I felt it was only natural to call this site TGIF Friday's WebSite.

T.G.I. FRIDAY

TGIF, Thank God It's Friday has been a saying for as long as I can remember. Read the History of T.G.I.F.. No where has that become more apparent then through the Email system and cyber space. E business creativity flows with lightspeed, as one person's little joke becomes another's golden nugget and is freely shared to groups of people on the Internet. That is why My Space has become so popular because of the interactivity to share thoughts, ideas, pictures, videos, and other creative items not constrained by any particular media form.

The Internet has become a new artistic form of expression, not only from the standpoint of individuals, but also B2B and B2C businesses of every type that can be imagined. Taking the new Internet creative art form of PtoP, Person-to-person, and C2C, Consumer-to-consumer and using the best creative ideas; businesses can now expressive themselves no matter whether they are B2B or B2C for the highest marketing and advertising impact imaginable.

Artistic talent has typically been viewed on the Internet as to how beautiful a website designer can design a website. There certainly is artistic talent in the field of graphic website design, however there are other forms of artistic talent that is often overlooked online. Online advertising and Internet marketing are becoming much more important for any business today. Unfortunately most Internet marketing services firms look at Internet marketing and online advertising from a relatively flat canvas. In fact, the Internet canvas has attempted to be constrained by some so called experts in the fields of marketing and advertising. If, companies were to listen to these so-called experts tell it, there would never be any creative effort put forth by companies to really challenge the status quo and branch out toward new advertising and marketing ideas to be implemented in a website. They would say, "keep a website simple for your target audience." While there are merits in that online approach and certainly drawing a straight line where necessary, to point a customer in the right direction or sign up for a free newsletter makes sense, it does not tell the whole picture.

The Internet Canvas

The Internet canvas is not flat. It is not round, not square, nor three dimensional; but is more like a Matrix all its own. To really grab a hold of the Internet canvas is to become much bolder in an approach to painting a picture online. Thinking that a business, B2B or B2C website, is only about the pictures or the menu system is completely missing the artistic talents of the great artists that show their worth in what they provide for a customer. These artists have a touch on the pulse of the Internet. They have an uncanny ability to grasp a hold of a wide paint brush and create a beautiful picture that is in the site itself. These artists are the Web branders that can help develop the business brand in the hearts and minds of the consumer or other businesses.

Steve Jobs, once said when he arrived back at the helm of Apple, (paraphrased), The reason that Apple Products are not doing well is because they lost their sexiness. The products lost their coolness factor with the consumer.

In my mind Steve Jobs is more than a US businessman, but is an artist painting a beautiful picture in the minds of the consumer. That is why, Apple today is a picture of creativity in motion. From their iPod nano, to their iPod for music and videos, and their cool looking computers, they have painted beautiful product images along with images on the People's Canvas', their minds.

So, Welcome to TGIF Friday's USA Website where artistic talent is more than American graphic design, but a bold and classic approach to marketing and advertising on the Internet.

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For more TGIF Friday's Website information contact us using Friday's Email contact.