Check out this hot promo site we launched for Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ sauce - America's #1 premium BBQ sauce. Thousands of entries into a "sign" contest with a giveaway of a Genesis Series Weber Grill, a Bose Acoustic Wave Music System and a one-year supply of Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ Sauce.

View site: www.thesauceistheboss.com

As a highly technical web development studio with a great deal of experience developing web sites using the ASP.NET platform, Kentico's developer-centric focus was an immediate draw. Kentico allows us to easily build full-featured, CMS-based sites while leveraging our own existing design and development strengths (ASP.NET, C#, HTML/CSS, jQuery, etc.) to extend them.

The development process is quite straightforward for us, since Kentico's full-featured CMS brings us a near-complete set of important CMS functionality out of the box, allowing our developers to focus on rich, complex, valuable feature add-ons such as interactive maps and enhanced calendar/event registration functionality. "Cut and coded" .NET web site templates are easily worked into the Kentico CMS platform using familiar .NET master pages, ASPX/ASCX files, and CSS/script files, giving development teams quick turn-around time for basic CMS functionality; this, in turn, allows content population to continue while more advanced features are developed and integrated.

Kentico as a company has proven they have a passion for quality -- reference their "you find a bug, we plant a tree" initiative. Their support has been very good, when we need them (which really isn't that often). And for us, the price point just could not be beat. Kentico's rich feature set matches that of many other CMS products that are twice as expensive, or more.

The interesting thing is, we’re a web design & development shop. This means that it was (and I think still is), difficult for our dev guys to let us use a third party tool for blogging. I can understand when you’re a developer and you’ve built blogs, integrated and customized blogs (guys – this one is next), that you’re weary of some tool that the biz dev and marketing guy says is just the bomb. And dead simple to use. And only took him 5 minutes to set it up. And yes, you can completely skin it. Hot stuff.

My belief is, though we are very tech heavy, and heck, maybe we could build a posterous site, it just doesn’t make sense - especially when it is just so damn easy and cool. We know what we’re good at, and most often it is consulting, creating and building things on the web for clients when it makes sense. Other times, it makes perfect sense to use other solutions, partner with other people and make everyone’s life better and easier.

So please, if you are looking for a blogging solution, check out posterous (we offer customization services if you’d like it totally unique). And if there is anything else you need us to do on the web for your organization, give us a shout.

Check out this new, clean microsite we recently launched for global company Trane. It is a focused microsite used to communicate to mechanical engineers new product announcements and provide a portal to content and information on the Trane corporate web site.

www.traneengineers.com