The Typewriter Manifesto

Keeping your website up to date should be easy. The way we look at it, if it’s easy to do, you’re more likely to do it! With Typewriter, we give you control over 90% of your content. Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered for the other 10% too.

We made Typewriter for our clients – summer camps – based on a decade of experience making changes, swapping photos, and posting updates. Everyone wants to have the ability to post news and make routine changes to their website. This is the 90% that Typewriter gives you easy access to. Typewriter is designed to encourage good habits – like checking your statistics and posting to your various social networks.

Best of all, since designing and building websites for summer camps is our bread-and-butter, we know about your specific needs – like staff profiles – that you won’t find in an off-the-shelf content management system.

Typewriter is continuously being developed, and we’re adding the features that matter to you.

Typewriter

It All Starts With The Dashboard

1-click to edit, Google Analytics, and your online services - all in one place!

Your Base of Operations

You’re one click away from posting news, moderating a comment, editing a page, or possibly adding a staff profile.

Statistically Speaking

If you can’t remember the last time you checked your website analytics, we’ve got a solution.

Your dashboard displays key metrics from Google Analytics so you’re always up-to-date!

Stay On Top

We know you have a lot going on, and it isn’t easy to keep up with everything. To make your life a little easier, we provide you with one-click access to your most important online services: email, calendar, Google Analytics, CampMinder, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc.

Now you only have to go one place to go everywhere!

Features

Upload a PDF or other file to a page through Typewriter

Posts

Posting news on a regular basis is the best way to keep people coming back to your website.

If You Write It…

…they will come. And if it’s good, they might tell their friends.

Blogging and Facebook have brought word-of-mouth marketing to the web. Photos and videos are the content users like best and with Typewriter it’s 1-2-3 easy to post them on your website.

Profiles

Several of the camps we work with post profiles of their staff each year. It’s great fun for the camp community to see who’s new and who’s coming back.

It started with staff, and next came horses. Campers love to see a photo and read about their favorite horse.

Who knows what’s next?

Did you know that an active blog will help you in Google? It will, in multiple ways, so start posting!

If you’re ready to take charge of your website, let us know and we’ll get you set up on Typewriter!

Got an idea for a great new feature? Tell us about it – we’re interested.

Under the Hood

High Performance

Typewriter is a hosted solution built with Ruby on Rails, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, plus Javascript, and is deployed in a carefully managed enterprise class application environment.

We want everyone to have a fast website without the cost of a dedicated server or the headache of server management.

Content Delivery

Speed matters to us.

We make Typewriter faster by moving your assets (images, style sheets, javascript, etc.) to the cloud, because faster is better.

If you have videos, we can make those fast too.

Email Plus

What Typewriter is to your website, Google Apps is to email.

In addition to powerful anti-SPAM filtering, Google Apps provides you with shared calendars, documents (word processing and spreadsheets), online chat, and other services.

Want to see Typewriter in action? Visit Camp Rockmont – we built their entire new website on Typewriter, allowing them easy access to posts, pages, and profiles. Want to see your website on Typewriter? Give us a call!