Flint Hills Design Launches fhdMail
Today we’re proud to introduce fhdMail, a new email marketing campaign manager from Flint Hills Design.
We’ve been doing HTML email campaigns for a while now, and they’ve been great. But, being the perfectionists that we are, we started wondering if there was a better way. And so we created fhdMail.
We invite you to read about why fhdMail is better than your standard email campaign delivery service by visiting the website. But we’ll give you one concrete reason why fhdMail is better right now: the cute, furry little prairie dog character that we’ve affectionately named Flint. I mean, who wouldn’t enjoy being greeted and guided by this fun little guy in the midst of serious marketing work?
To learn more about how Flint and fhdMail can help your organization do effective email marketing, give us a shout. We know you’ll enjoy it.
Dropbox
For the past few weeks we’ve been using a folder sharing service called Dropbox. While there are many alternatives to using an online hosted service such as this one, Dropbox fit all of our requirements:
- Easy to use for computer experts and novices alike
- Cross-platform (Flint Hills Design is Mac based, most clients use PCs)
- Easy to backups
- Minimal resource requirements (individual computers and network)
- 24/7 access
Basically, we needed a reliable file sharing application that we could control as we see fit. Dropbox met all these requirements. Some other options didn’t:
- Web App
We thought about creating our own web app, but hundreds already exist and we didn’t have time. Plus, most of the existing apps such as Basecamp provided many more features than we really needed (simplicity is one of our most basic guiding principles). - MobileMe
We’ve found MobileMe to be flaky, especially for some of our PC using clients. We really needed this to be bulletproof. - File Sharing
The Apple based file sharing was a possibility, but if a computer is turned off you’re out of luck. And it didn’t seem right to be tying up others’ computers and their internet connections every time another user requests a file. - Dedicated Linux Server
Probably a good option, but we didn’t want to hassle with the configuration or security issues…
So in the end Dropbox won out. It’s easy to use and install on all operating systems. Because it looks and acts like a regular folder on our hard drive, everything is backed up automatically (and dropbox provides a time-machine style online backup as yet another measure of safety). It’s always on and doesn’t consume precious computing resources due to our files being hosted on Dropbox servers. And best of all it’s free for accounts under 2GB! From our experience so far we’d recommend it to anyone.
