SlickPlan… Atomic’s New App
Stop the interweb presses! We’ve got some news!
Atomic has just released it’s first application. It’s called SlickPlan, and it’s a free tool that web developers can use to easily create great-looking sitemaps and flowcharts.
Q: Excuse me, you built an application? I thought you were web developers.
A: Well, of course we are. But often our clients need custom functionality or custom applications for their websites. We wanted to let everyone know we do that too.
Q: Really? You can do that?
A: Totally. Our own Dayton web design team handcrafted this application using PHP/MySQL and jQuery. We used Twitter to identify a qualified focus group that helped us to beta test the program. We released it about a month ago, and we’ve already got more than a thousand registered users.
Q: So you created this app for your customers?
A: Well, originally we created it for ourselves. We’re obsessive about project planning at Atomic – and the first step in planning every website is to create a sitemap. We found ourselves wasting a lot of time building sitemaps in InDesign or Illustrator. So we decided to create an app that could generate sitemaps more easily. That’s how SlickPlan was born.
Q: Is it just for web developers?
A: SlickPlan is great for web developers because they can use it to quickly build site maps, and then with a click of a button turn them into standards-compliant HTML. So that speeds development. It also speeds the review process because developers can send reviewers a URL directly from SlickPlan. Or, they can use SlickPlan to autogenerate a PDF, if that format is preferable.
But in answer to your question, SlickPlan is also great for anyone who needs to quickly and easily create a professional-looking flowchart or sitemap. Like you, for example.
Q: Me?
A: Yeah, you. You look like you could use a little more organization in your life.
Q: < sigh…. >
Want to check out SlickPlan and give it a try? Go to www.SlickPlan.com. Or contact us anytime to learn more.
Cool app, I’m going to try that out.
And shouts out to my bud Eric, I bet he fits with you guys awesomely.
Glitch: “strong>A: Well, of course”
Also, to boost usability a bit, you might want to make the words “atomic blog” link to the main page of the blog.