As a company with a strong appreciation for web statistics, hosting the Boston pops Fireworks Spectacular website was a great experience. Our servers handled the traffic spike well due to the combination of Common Goal WebManager and page flattening.

Despite the popularity of social networking sites, the classic web based forum is still an extremely important and functional tool allowing the creation of communities for your users with even more appeal than a trip to Facebook.

When we first released WebManager 6, we added a host of new features to help turn content into tagged assets which can be used throughout your site. The new asset management system in WebManager helps us deal with other types of assets very easily.

Silverscape is excited to announce a new partnership with Tedeschi Food Shops. Founded in 1923, the family-owned convenience store/grocer hybrid opened their first store in Rockland, MA and now has approximately 200 store locations throughout Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Hampshire.

The most striking change on the web in the last few years is the increased usage of video. According to Nielsen, in March of 2005, approximately 55% of internet users had broadband or high speed access in their homes. Compare that to November of 2009 where that percentage had grown to over 90% in the United States.

As promised in an earlier blog entry, we have completed the sixth version of Common Goal WebManager! While I hold a certain fondness for the earlier versions, I know I speak for the whole team at Silverscape when I say that I am very excited about the new features, the new interface, and some of the technology we have brought into it to make the maintenance of site content even easier than it was in earlier versions (and our clients can speak to how easy it has always been)!

My favorite web application to come out of Silverscape is our content management system, Common Goal Web Manager. I am somewhat biased in my preference for it since I played a major role in the development of our current version and its always a pleasure knowing that many clients are using something I wrote lots of code for to update their web sites every day.
 

Two or three years ago, Flash was our go-to technology whenever we needed to achieve really cool or advanced interactivity. More recently, we've really taken a liking to using Ajax to accomplish many of the same tasks.