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Hello dear reader and welcome! Last week we launched the marketing site of Graphhopper – a new and cool offering from The Bivings Group that is based on our ImpactWatch graphing engine.

We are in the pre-launch stages of Graphhopper, but we are continuing to develop and test graphhopper before we release it into the wild.

We hope to offer you a simple way to create great looking Flash-based graphs in a few easy steps. We will host your graphs for you for free, making it easy to post graphs to your website or blog. No more redrawing graphs by hand, battling Excel or paying for expensive graphing programs.

I will try and post regularly and talk about the experience of launching this new product. Feel free to email me with questions and check back ocassionally for updates.  Oh, and make sure you Sign Up for Beta!

So we just launched a redesign of our main website, www.bivings.com, as well as our blog, www.bivingsreport.com. Below is a screenshot of the new www.bivings.com.

We've been contemplating a redesign of the main Bivings site for a couple of years, but the path forward only became clear the last few months.  When thinking about a redesign previously we fell victim to our own ambition.  We had grand plans and wanted to create something that was perfect.  This sort of led to paralysis.  We didn't follow our own advice, which is to focus on usability and design that serves the content.  

We finally started making progress when we shifted the focus to our blog.  We decided to keep www.bivings.com really simple and not to overwhelm folks with lots of brochure content they don't want to read anyway.  We brought our blog content front and center.  Our goal with the new site is to tell the story of our company a little bit every day by writing about the projects we are working on and the things we are passionate about.   We think this will be much more effective than producing some sort of slick, heartless brochure site.

Anyway, we hope you like it.  Let us know what you think it he comments.

Oh, and more on the whole Graphhopper thing to come soon.