sites and systems: Twisted Pair Solutions
May 3, 2005 I work as a technical writer for Twisted Pair Solutions. We just finished a refresh of our website. The design, navigation, and colors were inherited - I picked out new photos, wrote new text copy, and tweaked the home page. This is an interim makeover so take a quick peek before we change it again in a couple of months.
Home page
Twisted Pair Solutions develops software that lets different communications devices work together. More importantly, the people using the different devices can communicate with each other. So if the firemen in your town use VHF radios and the policemen use UHF, our software lets them talk on their otherwise isolated handsets. Thus the little montage on our home page of people in different roles using different communications gear.
We're thinking this is an interim look for the website - there's a whole big rebranding effort going on now with new colors/logos/copy/wallpaper/carpet/you-name-it-we're-tweaking-it. So if you follow this link to the Twisted Pair Solutions home page a couple months from now, maybe it won't look anything like this at all. Won't you be surprised.
success stories
We're a young company, but already have a few things to brag about, so we toot our own horn on the Success Stories page. Most were here before I showed up, but I wrote the Schneider Trading Long on WAVE article. I had help from our channel manager in the U.K., the business partner who did the installation, and the folks at Schneider. We think there's a lot of potential for sales in the financial industry. Besides, it's fun to get to say "hoot and holler" and have communications professionals take you seriously.
wave for commercial enterprise
One of the new pages we added was WAVE for Commercial Enterprise. This discusses how our WAVE software can do conferencing, hoot and holler, emergency notification, radio interoperability, and other such good stuff that a communications-dependent business might find handy. We have a handful of market-oriented pages, this is one of them. We're thinking about having direct links to market-specific pages as an important part of our next-rev home page, so click back in a few months and see what we came up with.
glossary of wave-related terms
We have a growing library of technical content in our Knowledgebase. One of the more recent additions is the Glossary of WAVE-Related Terms. Rob Mitchell, one of our Technical Marketing Engineers, helped out with this. I think it will prove helpful.
benefits of wave audio conferences
Our company president, Shaun Botha, wrote a white paper a while back about all sorts of good things that happen when you use WAVE to create audio conferences. I edited the document, then picked out images for the web page. Like most of our articles, we also have a printer-specific PDF brochure version. The Benefits of WAVE Audio Conferences PDF was fun to design. The image of the sophisticated tin-cans-and-string communications devices made everybody laugh.
About Twisted Pair Solutions
Twisted Pair Solutions is a gigantic worldwide firm with almost 25 employees, each of us trying to do the work of two. Pretty lively outfit. Our software is the good stuff. Seems to work well, fills a big gap. Disruptive in that it makes all sorts of other complex thingums seem old, clumsy, and overpriced. Eye are there riter cuz thei tink aye rite gud. BTW - this is what our logo looks like at the moment - look for a change this summer.
jason abdullah
Jason Abdullah did all the web development on this rev of the Twisted Pair website. Jason did quick work for us. It was a little strange having someone else code a website for me, but I'm sort of insanely busy with PDF brochure design and copywriting so it all worked out for the best. I'm happy to recommend Jason if you're looking for web dev help.
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