Do you have skills in PHP, mySQL, jQuery, HMTL & CSS?

If you answered yes to all of these and you are looking for a job at a small, fast-moving interactive company, we would like to talk with you. Here is a detailed breakdown of what we need out of this person.

Must Haves:

• Extensive Real-World PHP Experience
• Experience with the MVC concept (experience with CodeIgniter or CakePHP a plus)
• Ajax, Javascript & jQuery Skills
• Modern HTML & CSS Coding Experience (HTML5 a plus)
• Willingness To Learn
• Ability To Work With A Team or as an Individual
• Love For The Interwebs

Bonus Items (1up!)

• CodeIgniter Experience
• HTML5 Experience
• Photoshop Experience
• Flash Actionscript 2/3 Experience
• Foosball Skills

In real terms: we want someone that we get along with, loves building websites, wants to stay current with technology, has real-world experience and strives to impress our clients every day. Oh, and you HAVE to live in Sioux Falls (or move here). If you are this type of person please email your COVER LETTER, resume, links to sites you have built and anything else that we should know about you to:
jobs[at]44interactive[dot]com.

No Phone Calls, Faxes, Telegraphs or Outsourcing Companies Please.

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We would love to know what you think about the site.

Provoking Thought & Opening Minds

What I liked most about OTA Sessions were the people there that had never heard of the speakers, the authors and some of the concepts these people were talking about. (I had kind of forgot that there were people who hadn’t heard of @garyvee) You could see minds being blown all across the room. I think every person in that room got tangible, realistic advice that would help them become more passionate, more relevant and more educated in their personal and business pursuits. I had just gotten back from SXSW the previous week, so I was a little “conferenced out,” but the speakers were great and had great things for me to learn.

The speakers each brought their own style, attitude and content to the stage with enthusiasm and a true passion to help people become better at what they do. (The exception here was Chris Brogan, who I found to be really underwhelming.) My hands-down favorite of the day was Jonathon Harris, creator of wefeelfine.org and a variety of other face-melting projects. The fact that he comes up with these awesome ideas and then implements them in such a usable, artistic way keeps people coming back to his projects years later. Oh, and he can write, draw and shoot photos like Chuck Norris can dispose of bad guys.

What I took away from the OTA Sessions was a renewed passion to do everything a little bit better and put extra effort into learning more about the process of creating instead of just jumping in and shooting from the hip. I am highly passionate about building solutions for our clients that make their users happy and exceed their expectations and OTA Sessions helped stoke that fire. I work hard to learn more about how businesses can relate to, connect and interact with their customers in the personal manner possible and OTA Sessions gave me more insight to making that happen.

A Bookvalanche

Send in a Saint Bernard with a barrel of whiskey around its neck, I am trapped in blizzard of new books to read. I think I walked away with 7 new books and Bryan left with 5. This was one thing that stuck out for me as a difference with OTA Sessions in comparison to other conferences. This is in tune with the goal of making OTA Sessions not just a one time event. I have 7 books to read over the next couple of months and OTA Sessions will stick with me every time I crack one of those books open.

Thanks a lot to @hughweber and @mikebilleter for all of the hard work they put into the event and I hope to see everyone there next year.

Our old website was not exactly what we had envisioned on how we wanted to represent ourselves, but being a new company with a small portfolio, we weren’t EXACTLY sure who we were. We had a very good idea, but the details weren’t quite ironed out yet and being a website company, we needed a website. We liked the website, but over the course of the last two years we have grown and begun to define ourselves more accurately. This new website is a reflection of that.

Although it is a work in progress we felt it was important to launch and get user feedback. Also, we have a new logo and marketing materials that we thought were important we used on our main communication tool.

Simplicity. We tried desperately to simplify the site as much as possible in both layout and site content. We wanted to remove as much fluff as possible and let people know who we were and what they would get when working with us. We think this honest and straightforward manner will lead to people getting to know our work and our people better. Who we are is much more important than who we say we are.

It should be obvious from the home page, but our work is the most important thing to us. Our work speaks to what we ACTUALLY do and puts all puffery aside. If we weren’t proud of our work, this would be a mistake from a marketing perspective.

What you get from 44 Interactive is a straight-forward, hard-working, honest approach to business and we tried to reflect that in our website. We hope you like it.

Hugh had one problem: they need the website FAST. With the conference only a couple of months away they wanted to launch ASAP. We partnered with them to create a website that reflected the branding for their conference, allowed online registration and payment and allowed them to easily update content with a framework they were familiar with. We did this in about a week.

We are happy with the way the website came out and even more happy that our client was pleased as well and the website received a lot of good feedback from the registrants as well.