So today the Media Crumb team, with the help of Simply Hired’s Ops team, launched Simply Fired.com into the wide open space of the web. It was a two month long process for MC and something we really enjoyed working on. It is not often that a design & development firm can say they have worked for truly helpful and forward thinking clients such as Simply Hired so we thought it would a perfect case study for the new MC site and blog. So if you ever wanted to know what is takes a small company like ours to build a “web 2.0″ (what ever that means) type site, check out or little case study of Simply Fired.

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For a small startup company like, TechDiversions.com, we’ve learned something immensely useful - it’s not always wise to mimic your competition when designing a front-page layout for your website. This is especially true when your competition is highly brick & morter based while you’re purely an online entity.

For instance, a few of our competing sites have very un-friendly front page designs when it comes to looking at the site from the perspective of a google, yahoo or msn web crawler. Yet, they have a high page rank! Why? Because gamers around the world link to them because they know the name, the company and might even be in an affiliate program with them.

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What do you do when your programmer and partner is sick with the flu? You get off your lazy butt and start finishing up this site you started almost a year ago! Yeah thats right, I said it. For more then a year, the MC site has sat here with nothing but a coming soon URL and a link to our old company Lytis.

Luckily Derrick just came down with some strange sickness and so my work on the client side stuff has come to a halt until he is back on his feet. I suppose I could finish going over some new design ideas for 2o2p or even finally get our Senior Citizen Card out the door, but I figure its as good a time as any to tidy up MC. Anyway, Im sure no one reads this place anymore since Lytis has been down for almost 6 months now, but feel free to let me know what you think. Its still far from done, but its a start.

Bare with the site as we completely redesign everything from scratch. It has been a while since I have done anything new.  Sorry for the mess.