I stumbled across this blog today that i could only agree with.. 
If you are a fan of design and development, or even if you’re not and you just like news, this might be of great use to you..

http://lifehacker.com/393837/five-best-start-pages 

After two long months of receiving many amazing banner entries, We have finally decided on the winner of the iPhone.  All the entries were awesome unfortunately we could only pick one.  So drum roll please…

Congratulations to Leo Dornelas of odstyle.com!

Leo put together some amazing banners for us that we will be using soon to promote eleven2.  If you want to check out his work just click here!

For all the others thanks for your hard-work and effort that you put into this contest, we know as artists you take pride in your work, and we want you to know we appreciate you and your work.  Be on the look out for more contests from eleven2!

Thanks

Jon E.

We are announcing today that we are creating a special plan for President Bush’s Economic Stimulus plan.

We are announcing our Economic Stimulus Plan for lifetime hosting of our launchParty plan for $600.

Click here to order this product.

We love to give our customers the best deal at Eleven2, which is why we started this company a little over 4 years.

4 years later and 66,000 websites later, we still feel that giving our customer the best deal is win win for everyone!

So from today till the end of April, we are giving 20% of all plans!

Just signup TODAY and use the promotion code: April2008

I’m not one to go out in cowboy boots that often, but I have been known to wear them a time or two. What better time and place to wear cowboy boots than at a local high school FFA event? Eleven2 has always sought to give back to the community. So, we took this opportunity to go spend a day supporting Klein ISD’s FFA auction. There were a lot of kids in their blue jackets running around with their animals with the goal of winning some sort of prize or something. After all the prizes were awarded, an auction was held and all money was given to the kids of the FFA. We took this opportunity to bid on some select animals. At first we were just throwing numbers out so we could saw we had actually bid on something before. …Then we met “Babe.” Yes, though she was a pig, we thought, “She’s the one!” Without much time, we got the winning bid on “Babe,” took some pictures with her, and the rest is history! I don’t really have much to say other than the following:

1. Go buy a pig. You know you want one.
2. Have a kid take care of it, because you know you don’t have the time to do so.
3. Buy cowboy boots. You will thank you later.
4. When you go to your next FFA fair, tell them Eleven2 sent you!
5. Pigs smell.

With that, have a good day.

On Monday morning, Rodney received a phone call from Princeton Premier about a supposed application that was sent in for review. Rodney has been getting this call from the same person for the past 2-3 months and this time he let this guy have a run for his money.

Watch the video then leave us a comment!

Ladies and Gents,

The contest is still going, and we’ve had a number of great entries! Many thanks to all of you who have participated in the Banner Contest thus far! You guys are great! Keep up the great work, and if you haven’t sent us your entry, please do!

Featured Contestant
Probably one of our favorite contestants thus far has been Leo over at Odstyle. The dude took what we offered and ran with it! The only thing we gave contestants was a logo pack and dimensions of what we were looking for. This cat went above and beyond in our opinion.
You can check out his entry here.

Attachment Limit & Contest Emails
I just wanted to remind you all that there is an attachment limit. If your file size is too big, you may want to send it in multiple emails or send us a link where we can download your banners, .psds, etc.

*Also Note: If you have not received a thank you email from Jon, chances are he did not receive your entry. If that is the case, you will need to re-send them to Jon

Want To Compete For An iPhone?
Think you have what it takes to make some stellar banners and such for eleven2? Want to win a freakin’ iPhone? Well, you still have time! So, go here and read up on the contest. We hope to hear from every single one of you! I mean, really… It’s a freakin’ iPhone!

Once again, for more info: http://blog.eleven2.com/2008/03/05/e2-iphone-giveaway/

Eleven2 Needs Web Designers and Developers
Eleven2 is looking to redesign and redevelop our website as well as a few other areas within our company.
First area of business would be the eleven2.com. As time has progressed, we have done a few overhauls on our homepage, and now it’s time to overhaul the rest of the site with a cool AJAXY web 2.0 vibe.

So, if you’re interested, here is what we ask:
1. review our site
2. review a few of our favorite sites
- http://panic.com/coda
- http://eden.cc/
- most sites at faveup.com
3. that you know php, xhtml, ajax (javascript)
4. that you have a good eye for web 2.0

If you think you might be interested, please contact us!
You may leave a comment or shoot an email to zach@eleven2.com

Thanks!

Just a couple of things that have stood out in almost any conversation I’ve had with any designer in the past couple of days:

MUXTAPE
Supposedly, this site is magical among people who love to (a) discover new music & (b) listen to it. Simply put, it’s a new way to share, discover, and listen to hand-picked music online. Starting right now you can create a muxtape and upload up to twelve songs curated by you (instead of a cold computer algorithm), then share it in a simple, elegant player as easily as giving out a link like eleven2.muxtape.com.

If you have have an account, shoot us your link, and we’ll jam your tunes! If you want to listen to the one song we have uploaded, go to eleven2.muxtape.com. We may add more, but it’s hard to top the “My Moon My Man (Boys Noize Remix)” by Feist.

Eleven2’s cPanel Beta
Many of you have emailed me and want to try the new beta! We’re working on a couple of issues that are preventing us from getting this to you, but as soon as we have those issues resolved, you will be updated to the beta version of cPanel.