Edward J. Branley

(x-posted yatpundit, seashell-software, and canalstreetcar)

Front and rear views of my two sets of Moo Cards

With the advent of Da Twittah, I've wanted to re-do my business cards for a while.  Naturally, I tweeted this desire, and @AuraFedora responded that i absolutely had to check out Moo Cards.  When I had a look at the site, I was impressed by how easy it would be to put something together there.  I also liked their pricing, so I made up two sets, one for seashell software and the other for NOSRA.

I worked up what I think is a nice graphic for letterhead for seashell some time ago. It never worked well for a business card, though, since it was designed to go across a page. The two-sided format of the Moo card gave me the chance to use it, though. With the company logo taking up the entire side, that left me free to not put it on the other side. That left room to add a graphical reference to Hitachi Data Systems. Since my main use for these cards is to give to students and storage colleagues, the "HDS certified" graphic serves two purposes: It cements the relationship I have with HDS and gives me the chance to establish a bit of street cred.

The "computer" cards are good for when I'm doing training, but I wanted something more "local" for around-town/social occasions.  The streetcar nonprofit is important to me, and I absolutely love the photo on the "horizontal" side.  It's Car #29, the last of the single-truck Ford, Bacon & Davis streetcars, along with one of the Perley A. Thomas cars.  In front is the YLC streetcar model that was painted by the NORTA craftsmen from Carrollton Station.  It speaks volumes for moo.com that I was able to create a card that was oriented portrait on one side and horizontal on the other.

The moo.com website was very easy to use.  I had one initial snag getting started, however.   Their "file upload" application does not work at all under Linux.  When I opened VirtualBox and went to the site in a Windows "virtual machine" it worked fine. 

Both sets of cards came in nice, cardboard dispenser boxes (box is just visible below the cards in the top photo). 

I'm VERY pleased with moo.com!