So last year we talked about what’s new for 2010. One of the items we talked about was a new Plus Factory website. Well guess what, its now a reality! Well sort of.

We have a new website built in Adobe Flash. It was built by our China team, to be used in both the US and China markets. You can see the new Plus Factory website by clicking here. While we love the new site, here is a case of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) creating a business reason to keep the current HTML site up. To be specific, our current HTML site is very optimized for search engines. Because of the ‘Bomee’ CMS (our custom PHP based CMS solution), it properly tags, titles and keywords every page on the site. To see how well the site performs on a search engine, go to Google and type this term: “site:web.plusfactory.net”. You will see every page on the website queried by Google. Thats what you want your site to do.

So we have decided to keep the current HTML site up, and have the new Flash website on a separate URL. Our visitors will have the choice to view either one (content is basically the same). Nothing like choice, right?

Check out our new portfolio reel. Thank you Fred….great work as always.

Well today was a big day for our China office, we moved to a bigger office space (but in the same building complex, Jian Wai SOHO, in the Chaoyang District Beijing). A city within the city, Jian Wai SOHO combines highrise residential buildings, commercial space, shops, parking, and landscaped courtyards to create a sophisticated, mixed-use complex near the Tonghui River. Tokyo architect Riken Yamamoto was hired to design the master plan and the apartment towers. Yamamoto brought in two young Japanese firms—C+A to design the “villas” (midrise office structures set between the towers), and Mikan to design the retail space on the lower floors of the apartment buildings and along the perimeter of the complex.

Plus Factory was originally in building 10, Office 1004. But now we are in building 14, on the 22nd floor, with great views of Beijing and the CBD (Central Business District). And our new office number is 1901. We look forward to working in our new, larger office spaces.

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