Plain City Auction

First, who is this Plain City Auction we speak of? Well, for short, they're one of our clients and great friends of ours. We've been working with them for years. But, in more detail, they're an auction house located in Plain City, Ohio, which is just outside of Columbus. They usually sell antiques furniture and other various antiques.

What is a preferred partner? Well, we're still not sure either. Infact, we kind of wonder if they even know yet. All we really know about it at this point is that they're essentially looking to cross-promote other local vendors goods and services. They always have a large turnout at their auctions, so it's actually a surprise that this didn't happen sooner. But our understanding is that they're looking for other local or related businesses that would like to promote their company to a large number of people for little cost.

We've heard that they're having large-format print adverting produced for their preferred partners that they'll have prominently on display at the auctions. Since we do their website hosting, they've already approached us about providing similar online advertisements through their website and their auction newsletter emails. We're pretty sure that they'll also be printing advertisements in their snail-mail auction newsletter and that they're open to other suggestions if you're interested in becoming one of their preferred partners.

If this sounds like an advertising outlet you'd like to pursue, please visit http://plaincityauction.com/contact/ to get in touch with the auction's owners

After leaving his previous three year business venture this past fall, several of Robert's clients decided that they wanted to follow him to his new destination, proVanceTek. This was also the case with Plain City Auction.

December 2007 Plain City Auction migrated hosting services to proVanceTek after proVanceTek had completed porting the existing Plain City Auction XML based website to the Drupal content management system. proVanceTek created a couple custom Drupal features for Plain City Auction's use on their website.

proVanceTek continues to work on migrating the previous site content to the new website. Each page on the previous Plain City Auction site was hand-coded using XML which the site loaded using a proprietary rendering engine created by the website's previous web host. This content is in rather inconvenient format for any sort of automated migration. proVanceTek tried several automated migration tools available and had little success; the site is currently being migrated tediously by hand.