Hellooo!  It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Allow me to climb out from under my pile for a moment and update this here “schedule” I keep threatening myself with.  A few projects were launched this spring and I’ve been neck deep in repeat site maintenance and some logos, so I’ve been keeping busy.  I am about to launch a few larger projects.. some cute ones!  So I’ll be doing a few proposals for new projects slated to start this summer, over the next few weeks.  I’ll be scaling back on some of the larger custom jobs to focus on preparing Femmplates™ so we’ll hopefully have a few of those available this summer too.  Feel free to fill out the Request For Proposal form if you’re interested in obtaining a proposal!

Summer looks like it’ll be busy as usual for The Moxie Girls™ but we have some fun stuff in store which may include drinks, donuts and faaaaaabulous prizes.  No matching washer and dryers but stay tuned. 

I just wanted to pop in to address the curiosity surrounding Femmeplates™ and their pending arrival.  We know you ladies are waiting patiently and are super excited about it, evident by the slew of email we’re getting asking “When? When? When? Are we there yet? Huh? Huh?” We know waiting is torture!  We’re really excited to unleash them and we’ve got a nice selection coming together that we’re sure will tickle your feminine blog fancy in one way or another.  We wanted to give you ladies a date to mark on your calendar.  We’ll be unleashing Femmeplates™ on August 11th this summer so you’ll have time to scoop them up and get your sites ready for action. 

We’ll notify everyone who is on the mailing list first so if you’ve not signed up, go ahead and do that so you’ll be first in line to take your pick.  There won’t be a zillion so you’ll want to be in the front of the line to peruse the selection.  Boding Femmeplates™ success we’ll continue to feed the beast with new and fresh designs as the year goes on.  Including seasonal and holiday designs as well as we get closer to that time.  Can you believe I just mentioned holidays?  I think I just had an embolism just thinking about that.

Anyway, there you have it girls.  August 11th is the date for Femmeplates™ so be on the lookout. Also, if you are in the San Diego area the weekend of August 23-24 and want to meet up with us for the The Moxie Girls™ Mixer (… it’ll be a cocktailin’ good time) make sure to let us know over there on the right in that nifty poll.  We hope you’ll join us for some fun… who knows maybe you’ll get some freebies out of it. 

With the amount of requests we’ve received this week, it’s like someone let the Web Design Party Bus off at The Moxie Girls™ Lounge.  You guys are absolutely drunk with ideas for your websites and we are overwhelmed with exciting projects. Thank you for thinking of us!  If you’ve sent an estimate in the last couple weeks, make yourself at home, pour yourself a cocktail and we’ll be with you momentarily.

While we’re working our little fingers like mad to create incredible designs for our current couture design clients, we’ve also been busily creating designs for our labor of love, Femmeplates™.  We decided earlier this year that while we love creating designs for our clients, we also wanted to cut loose and design pretty things just because. We have to design for passion, not paycheck sometimes. It helps us keep things fresh for every client and not get in a rut, which can be easy to do if you’re not mindful.

Now, that’s not to say Femmeplates will be free. Let’s not get crazy!  These will be stylish, mostly female-centric, moderately-priced premium designs for Wordpress, Blogger or straight up HTML/CSS markup.  Femmeplates are not regurgitated freebie layouts with different banners, these are not templates created by others and modified by us, these are luxury designs lovingly created by us in our spare time so you can give your blog The Moxie Girls touch without waiting in the queue until you’re collecting social security.

There will be a few tiers of pricing, depending on the level of exclusivity you choose. We also must consider the licensing for the images used in the design, so that all parties involved get their copyright needs met. We respect stock illustrators (and all artists), their desire to protect their creations and we hope you do, too.

As these are designs of passion, so to speak, it means the looks you’ll find could be anything that strikes our fancy.  It could be seasonal, it could be bridal, it could be mommy-oriented, hobby-oriented, professional or whatever blows our dress up at the time.  We won’t be taking specific requests for Femmeplates — that would require a Request for Proposal for a custom project.  But, we are open to hearing your ideas, so if there’s a type of design you’d like to see in the Femmeplates showcase, drop us a line.  It doesn’t mean we will do it immediately, if at all, so don’t get bent if you don’t see it for a while. It’s nothing personal!  It simply means we’ll tuck it into our hat for the future.

The initial offering on August 11th will be select.  It’s a soft launch for testing the waters, so first come, first served.  No hair-pulling and no biting.  We don’t have that kind of insurance.

Have a great weekend!

Ok ladies… no pushing, no shoving, no line cutting and no hair pulling.  Femmeplates™ are finally available for purchase!  We know, we promised these on August 11th but an unfortunate run in with some stubborn code set us back some.  Not to mention, I was out of town while Joelle hammered away at the set-up so that didn’t help move things along any faster.  How helpful of me!  However now, we have it all pulled together and working smoother than Kenny G covered in cream cheese.  Now, don’t go throwing darts at us if you run into anything hinky on checkout.  We’ll get any kinks ironed out I’m sure.

Femmeplates™ came from our desire to do some less restrictive creative work without the usual rules and regulations set forth with bigger projects.  We love designing pretty much anything but sometimes it’s fun just to do whatever hits our artsy fartsy button.  So we’ve unleashed a handful of premium cute stylish templates to choose from with a variety of price and license options to fit your needs.  We’ll be adding more new designs as the year goes on so the stash will get larger but for our premier Femmeplates™, we though this grouping would strike some of your girly chords. 

So go ahead and head over to our new Femmeplates™ selection and browse around. Viva la Femmeplates™!

If you have tried to purchase one of our new Femmeplates™ blog design templates, but have received an error like this:

The recipient of this shopping cart link is not an approved shopping cart user. Please review your selection and try again.

... please drop us an email!  We’re not sure what’s causing this issue, but it only happens sometimes in Internet Explorer only.  Our research shows that we’re not alone in this issue and we’re doing whatever we can to fix it as a soon as possible. In the meantime, if you get any crankiness from IE, try using Firefox or just shoot us an email and we’ll send you payment link directly.

We’ll hopefully have these kinks worked out soon.  Thanks!

Ok, he’s not our uncle. That would be weird.  But he is our hero!  Bob of Scratching the Itch not only helped us build our fancy little Femmeplates™ shopping cart, but he figured out that wacky Internet Explorer error that was happening for some people. Woo woo!  *jig*

We’ve relied on Bob, or Deltus as some may know him, to come to our rescue with various scripting hang-ups over the last five years. He’s a real peach.  Thanks for all you do, Bob!