Honey House Web Designs Instrumental in Online Pathology Slide Collection

Aiken, SC – February 16, 2011

Honey House Web Designs announces today the completion and rollout of a website containing the historical digital archive of Dr. Juan Rosai's pathology slide collection. The Juan Rosai Collection of Surgical Pathology Seminars contains almost 20,000 slides from over 1400 pathology seminars spanning pathology research and diagnosis from the 1940s through today.

www.RosaiCollection.org allows visitors to search and view high resolution slides, pathology case information, and historical documentation from the past 60 years of Dr. Rosai's pathology work. The project was sponsored jointly by the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) and Aperio Technologies, Inc. at no cost to the pathology community. The process of scanning slides, documentation, and developing the website has been underway for the last 10 months. The collection and resulting website will be highlighted at the USCAP's 100th Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, February 26-March 4, 2011. Workstations with the website will also be available for interactive use in the conference's exhibit halls.

Dr. Juan Rosai is the Director of the International Center of Oncologic Pathology Consultation Center at the Centro Diagnostico Italiano, in Milan, Italy, and Consultant Pathologist at Genzyme Genetics in New York. Dr. Rosai is author of the pathology textbook, Rosai and Ackerman's Surgical Pathologyover 300 articles, reviews, and essays.

Honey House Web Designs, LLC is among the leading web design firms in the Aiken-Augusta area, specializing in innovative, interactive web sites in all areas of business.

Happy New Year!

In 2011, I resolve to:

  • Keep crankin on CF9
  • Use jQuery more
  • Polish my ORM up more
  • Wear my fuzzy slippers more
  • Log more miles on my bicycle (2010 mileage was quite sad so this bar isn't very high)
  • Go to CFUnited, Max2010, Max 2011, Somewhere fun to network w/ colleagues

Honey House Web Designs wishes you and yours a very techy, geeky, terrific new year ;)

RANT -- AT&T New Yahoo Mail Servers are a Deal Breaker

AT&T DSL broadband has been migrating customers to their "new", "improved" mail servers... 3rd party, Yahoo. While Yahoo is a fine company, this move was another terrible step in AT&T's continuing downward spiral of not being in-tuned with their customers.

My business, while growing tremendously, has a home office. I want to be able to send emails with my business email account name, regardless of the ISP I use to connect. Up until my account was migrated, this was easy. AT&T (formerly Bellsouth) used my ISP email account to transparently verify the account as legitimate and allow mail to be sent. My "to", "from" and "reply to"'s could be anything I wanted... honeyhousedesigns.com, hotmail.com, yahoo.com, etc.

So when a recipient got an email from me, they saw my business email address in the from and reply to fields and could reply through that business account.

NO LONGER! NOW... Any AND EVERY email sent must have my AT&T email address as the from AND the reply to. So, the recipient will receive email branded with AT&T's email address (note, one I don't use at all...ever). If the recipient just hit reply, the email goes to that account, not my business account. And according to AT&T, that is just the way it will be. Tough noogies on me for using a home office with "residential" DSL.

GET THIS THOUGH! For triple the monthly DSL fee I pay now, my DSL can be "upgraded" internally at the office to allow me to have the functionality I want. No line changes, no new installations, just pay them more money and they will come through with the goods. But for how long until the next "gotcha"? Seems more like extortion to me than a "new improved" service.

As a small business, we at Honey House Web Designs consider telecommuting and home offices an excellent resource to keeping overhead low and being able to pass that savings along to customers and be able to employ more people. But our business is important enough that we want to brand it with OUR name, not Ma Bell's.

So, we begin the process of finding a provider who will provide us with what we need at a reasonable price. Bye-bye Bell

Don't Sacrifice Value by Using "Lowest Bid" - Back to Basics

In this economy we are all focusing on growing our business and maintaining an adequate revenue stream. Many consultants and web designers are lowering prices to better serve clients. And clients are more than ever shopping around for the "best deal".

However, remember, "you will always get what you pay for". Focusing on price alone as the indicator of which Web Design company receives your project ignores your own business needs. You want a professional site that reflects your business style and saavy. You want a site that peaks your customer's interest. You want value.

Value, is your business's total worth. It is the intangible benefits your business receives by having a great website and it is the potential for that site to bring customers to you. Value does supersede price. Always be willing to pay a fair price for quality work. You will get more than you pay for when price is not the sole consideration for a website.

This is the time to get back to the basics of running a business. Value, service, integrity, and quality are basic to your business success.

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