In this Issue
Corporate Sponsorship
Qru Staff
Scripts
Hit Counts Skyrocket
Contents
Contest
Chicago Gaelic Park
Notes from you
Tech Tips
In the elder days of art
Builders wrought with greatest care
Each minute and unseen part
For the Gods see everywhere.
~Longfellow, The Builders |
| Qru Studios Incorporated would like to extend a warm thank you to all of our readers. We have received very positive responses to our newsletter. The effects show not only in the form of those who have told us how happy they are to keep on top of our progress, but the increased in visitation show that people are coming to our sites to see the our featured content and newly installed sections. Our newsletter even caught the attention of the decision makers at Anaconda Press leading to their sponsorship of our search engine in the library. We continue to be busy here at Qru Studios so keep on top of our progress and let us know if anything strikes your fancy. |
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Top of the News
Corporate Backing for the Library Search Engine |
Qru's Library search engine is now being sponsored by Fuel Magazine, a publication of Anaconda Press. A quarterly magazine, Fuel publishes the poetry, stories and artwork of young authors and artist nationwide. Our substantial statistics led to their advertising on qru.com, choosing The Library as an ideal location sharing in the goal of getting the work of promising authors into the public eye, we feel that this partnership is be a very positive thing for future developments. Our hope is to elevate the work of talented young people bringing readership, recognition, and acclaim to all. |
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Featuring...
The Personalities Behind the Pages |
Qru Studios Incorporated would like to introduce you to its staff. Coming from diverse backgrounds with former occupations ranging in scope from education to opera to cooking. We have come together in a spirit of shared values with the belief that the World Wide Web should be more than a trip through advertisements and billboards, forming the core of Qru Studios Incorporated. Come and take a look at our resumes and personal pages. Find out what drives us and the skills required to bring you web pages that set a new standard in sharing information and content development on the Web. Newly developed areas can make every visitor just as integral to the cotent of qru.com as the main members. They are able to leave messages or add to some places where they visit. |
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On the LAN
Scripts We OfferSkyrocketing Hit Counts |
Over the past few months you have heard mention of the various feature on our sites. Now we can give you a list of the scripts that we currently offer to our clients. Our clients can add to their sites: a local site search engine, mailing list, calendar, database application, mail forms, or an on-line forum for discussion. We are also developing a program allowing people to upload their bookmark list to the Inner Outpost. While this may not be of great demand amongst our clients, it will better enable us to give you a listing of content driven sites that are of interest.
This week saw our hit count soar. Most of the week surpassed the 2000 hit per day mark with one day achieving well above 3000 hits on our combined sites. Qru Studios receives accesses ranging from 600 to 1300 daily with The KnowMadz close behind at about 400 to 900 daily with a couple of days over 1000. The Inner Outpost, "qru.com's looking glass" just recently upgraded to domain status from a subsection of Qru Space is recieving 100 to 400 hits daily. Anticorp is a rather humorous political satire that has recently been posted as it's own domain. While not our major attraction, they do get over 40 hits daily with some days exceeding 100 by a healthy margin. We can attribute the greater number of hits in general to several factors. The Vampire Gallery is quite a popular area of qru.com we hope to see the enthusiasm continue and grow. The greater resource of interactive content like The Inner Outpost Chat, The KnowMadz Forum and Meta/Theology section are also major contributors. Several improvements in the navigation architecture and several aesthetic ajustments as well as additions to our content. Imporvements like increased access to our Content Page and it's pivitol role in
allowing greater reach into remote areas of our site, and of course this newsletter. At present we feel that the statistics have been too erratic to make any longterm projections. but it appears that our goal of over one thousand hits a day on average is eminantly a reality.
If you haven't been to qru.com lately don't be the only one, go to where everybody else already is: on-line at qru.com. |
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On the See
Contents in ContentContest for Qru Fans |
A table of contents has been added to the Content Page in Space. A complete site map giving people access to up to sections up to three levels deep, Content will now more easily lead people to exactly where they want to go. We still have all the planets and satellites that allowed people to explore with an element of surprise. The various parts of our image map are still the best way to reach the individual pages within Space. We have also added a search engine for the space folder. With several unique subsections floating in space, this will be a great way to find things you otherwise might not expect in our site.
At the end of the month Qru Studios will be hosting a contest with a cash prize. While details cannot be revealed at this time, we recommend that you become very familiar with the various sections of our sites. Happy browsing and stay tuned for more details!
Tech Tips has moved to its own newsletter. You can sign up to get Tech Tips every other Wednesday in your e-mailbox just as conveniently as you get Qru's News or link to it off of the web page of this newsletter. Tech Tips also has a forum where people can post their questions and have them answered either by the staff of Qru Studios or by anyone else who reads it. |
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Client Side
Additions to Gaelic Park |
Qru Studios has installed for Chicago Gaelic Park a calendar and a scrolling banner to their site. The calendar will allow for easy updates as well as a place to look up all events in a convenient manner. The scrolling banner will be used for announcements. Members will be able to send a public congratulations to friends and family members on the banner. has first applied the banner to extend their appreciation to those members of the board who recently were succeeded. Their hard work and dedication helped Gaelic Park grow and thrive.
New Features like the calendar and scrolling banner are proving to be quite in demand by our constiuents and have us currently negotiating several new contracts to install them on other sites. |
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Feedback
Notes from you |
"Great page thanks to Christine, yourself and perhaps David also."
~Liam O'Brien Board Member Chicago Gaelic Park cgp-chicago.org
"Your site reminded me what the Internet was supposed to be about. Very sophisticated and intellectual."
~Michael Patterson MIS Manager Chaffee College
"We are excited about the progress of on-line communication as a tool to bring government and the people closer together. Your continued interest and participation are very important to that goal."
~Stephen K. Horn Office of Correspondence www.whitehouse.gov |
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