John and Steve working on some styling. Steve asking questions about old tech vs new tech. We really need to restyle everything. Steve was making an analogy of a pay phone and pager vs a modern cell phone or mobile device. Things change. We talked a little bit about fracture and the evolution of code and design. John really wants to start moving things to the next level. If we do that, there will need to be some internal training and making sure that all of our guys know where we are going and what we are shooting for.

Everything has a lifespan and a maintenance schedule. We have so much functionality, but it's kinda ugly. We need to work on that. Along with that, someone needs to keep up with the changes. We talked about a need for a deeper look into coding versions, functionality, custom exports, special print stuff, and more. This topic returned us to talking more about efficiency stuff and back talking about newer versions of some of the underlying code, libraries, plugins, and library dependencies.

It got into price increases based on our costs and reflecting that back out to our clients. Thing, costs, really have gone up and we haven't done anything about that. There is a disconnect there. Our current look and feel is virtually killing us. People dismiss us a viable option, because we look a little bit older. This seems to be the biggest factor where people judge our software. The value of having a good style guide and then sticking to it. We really need this in our site and app.