People We Need to Thank

The newly designed, full strength Denver Egotist site has been up for a few days shy of a month. We have 800 members since the relaunch, a thriving community, a bulging list of great jobs from great companies, consistently growing site traffic, and a venue we're damn proud to show off to anyone willing to give us the time. Despite wanting to take every ounce of credit for what you see before you, it's right time we thanked a few of the people who helped bring us to this point.

If you don't know about Ben Pieratt and his Boston company full of medieval creative wizardry, General Projects, go check them out. Ben designed our new site, and he acts as managing director and general creative consultant for us on an ongoing basis.

For development, we partnered with Portland's Wolverine (formerly Oyoaha). We talked to 13 digital agencies in Colorado before ever going this route. It was a difficult choice. Wolverine was selected because of their ability to help us intelligently pare down our initial blue-sky vision for this iteration of the site – as well as the generous price they offered us (it's coming out of our rather empty pockets, after all). We know we might get a tongue lashing for going outside CO, but in the end it was too hard to go any other route. They did a great job for us and the system is working flawlessly, as promised.

For SEO, our friends at Denver's Booyah Online Advertising generously donated their time and expertise. Man, did they kill it. Our traffic increased 20% month-over-month out of the gate – typically a time when a site can falter because of the transition. Additionally, our keyword rankings held steady and improved overall with the new site. It'd be very easy to make up some compliments about Booyah because they did the work pro bono, but we can genuinely say it's been a serious pleasure working with them through the process. It was easy and understandable, and we'd highly recommend them to you.

Finally, we'd like to thank the dozen or so contributors who have kept the content flowing for all this time. It'd be pretty dead around here with you. And, dear readers, you should know the comments and the feedback and the love and the hate are truly what make this site interesting and what drive us to continue bringing it to you, daily. Please keep the submissions and the feedback coming.

Onward.