Let’s just dive right in. In 3 years, we’ve changed the primary look and feel of the ripstyles.com website 4 times. That’s pretty impressive! This fourth version, which we’ve codenamed “Azimuth”, offers what we feel to be the best CD conversion experience in the industry. We’ve moved away from a hosted shopping cart to a new, completely original cart that was designed and built as a collaborative effort between the internal Ripstyles team and the amazing Obuweb (thanks, Josh!). We’ve gotten away from our shared hosting provider and are now running on a shiny new virtual dedicated server from Media Temple, and have used an amazing PHP framework called CodeIgniter to build the website and a completely new backend infrastructure. All in all, this allows us to provide unparalleled efficiency and features to you!

The Ripstyles Blog is going to be dedicated to three main areas – announcements about cool new technologies and gadgets we think our customers and friends should know about, discussion and interpretation of events happening in the industry, and a general news source for what’s happening at Ripstyles. We welcome questions and concerns, which you can access through our website contact form or the Get Satisfaction! link on the left of every page, and we’d love to make things change based upon your input.

You can also check us out on Twitter, Facebook, and a few other places around the internet – just ask Google nicely and it’ll lead you in the right direction.

Most of the writing on here will be from Jonathan and Jeff, but you might find some guest appearances by Rob, Chris, Maria, Liz, and others. Trying to get a hold of a specific blogger? Contact us!

We’ve had a great time making this website and building our business into something beyond our wildest imaginations, and we hope that you can join us to the next milestone!