Dirxion.com Gets a New Look

We’ve just launched our new website! This will be the new home for all of the upcoming, exciting products, features, news and events from Dirxion. Our ambition is to create something for our clients that can contain the most useful, up-to-date information on “all things digital publishing”.

This new website better reflects the same high quality that you expect from our products. We hope that you enjoy discovering all the little intricacies and that you find inspiration in the wealth of new information and product samples.

Some insights…
We’ve brought live samples of our products to the front and center on each of the solutions pages, because nothing quite explains our digital editions like they can themselves.
The navigation has been simplified throughout the site to get you to the information you need quicker and easier than before.
The new layout consists of more pages, which allows us to go into greater detail on all of our products and features, while also making it easier to add pages as we consistently continue to expand our digital offerings.
The site is all around better organized, and has a cleaner and more intuitive look.

New and Notable Pages…
See our Demo
Mobile Directories
Monetizing Your Digital Directory or Magazine
Facebook Applications
Services Page
Process: From Print to Digital
Expanding Your Reach
Measuring Your Performance

We hope you will enjoy the new www.dirxion.com and that it will influence you to more regularly check back and keep on top of digital publishing information. For the time being, we ask you to bear with us as we put the final touches to it. Needless to say, over the next few days there are bound to be a few teething problems as we migrate everything over.

So, what are your first impressions? We greatly welcome and value any feedback. Hopefully you find the site much easier, cleaner, and more efficient. If you have experienced any problems… go easy on us! With the gamut of browsers and endless lines of code it’s only to be expected. But we’d definitely appreciate it if you let us know if you spot any typos, bugs or if something else that doesn’t quite work on your system.

Thanks,
marketing@dirxion.com.

A Holiday Greeting for YOU

From all of us here at Dirxion, Happy Holidays! Click to see our interactive and eco-friendly holiday greeting to you.

We wish all of you and your families a wonderful and safe holiday season!

Here’s to …
good laughs with family and friends,
the scent of a holiday home,
a great meal with those you love,
cranking up the holiday tunes (George Michael’s “Last Christmas” may or may not be one of my guilty pleasures)
watching the holiday movie classics like “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”
and also the internet classics like “Nintendo 64 Kid”

No matter what your traditions are, we hope your holiday season is a memorable one.

Dirxion Futbol Players Like Kissing Their Sister

The title should have read, “22-Goal Thriller” describing last week’s futbol match at Vetta-Concord. Both teams fought triumphantly and deserved victory, but both teams were once again thieved of that opportunity when the buzzer sounded. For the second week in a row the game between the Dirxion White Club and the Dirxion Dark Club ended in a draw, this time 11-11.

AWARDS:
Player of the Game: Dan Costello, 4 Goals
Honorable Mention: Goalkeeper, Jon Teson, with 3 Assists
Play of the Game: Andy Westerholt, while racing down field, fighting off the always nimble Phil Sneed, shoots, is denied, but then gathers his own rebound kindly placing it in the back of the net where it belongs.

2009 Dirxion Futbol League: Season Opener

ST. LOUIS – The long-awaited opening match of the 2009 Dirxion Futbol League is finally in the books.  Participating in this year’s commencement ceremonies were two teams that are quite familiar with one another, Dirxion White Team vs. Dirxion Dark Team.

In the opening moments of the game questions were raised regarding the defensive muscle of the White Team.  When the whistle was blown, the Dark Team came out of the gate in full speed, finding themselves with an early 3-0 lead.

Not to be defeated, though, the White Team battled back.  The silence was broken when Ron Livaudais powered down the field to finesse a quick shot to goaltender Jon Teson’s short side for the White Team’s first point.  But the real turning point of the game came in the 26th minute when Rusty Mitchener scored a goal from a perfectly placed pass from Dan Costello.  Mitchener, who lazily stood a foot in front of the Dark Team’s wide open net, could have been any inanimate object in the world at that crucial moment.  It really didn’t matter. In the grand scheme of the play, Mitchener contributed so little and Costello’s pass was so good that even veteran league official, Steve Mitchener, contemplated ruling the goal in Costello’s favor.

It was back and forth from then on.  For a while, this sportswriter can tell you that he thought the teams were intentionally taking turns sharing the lead.  After a seesaw of emotions and a taxing 60 minutes of play, the buzzer sounded.  The scoreboard anti-climatically read 9-9. With no tie-breaking rules in place and a overall lack of time, the game was called. Both teams went back to work and are left anxiously awaiting their first victory… or loss.

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POST-GAME:

Dirxion Dark sweeper, Eric Sack, recalled his self-proclaimed “play of the game” in an interview:

“When Andy gave me that bouncing pass right in front of the goal, I calmly collected the ball and turned to look for Damon across the field.  He was double teamed.  So I juked left to shake one defender, then I cut back right to breeze past the remaining defenders.  I couldn’t have placed that ball more accurately in the corner. If I’m not mistaking, I believe [the White Team’s goaltender,] Nick Walz’s head blew up in between his completely outstretched hands.”

*The Dirxion Blog finds it necessary to note here that Nick Walz’s head did not in actuality blow up.  Sound sources have contacted us to let us know he was earlier spotted in the office, head in tact.

HONORS:

Player of the Game: Damon Passanise, Dark Team, 4 Goals

Play of the Game: Dan Ruder, White Team, Free kick top-shelf goal from just inside the half line.

LEAGUE RUMORS:

St. Louis local businessman and celebrity, Ted Drewe, is rumored to have interest in purchasing the Dirxion White Club and renaming them the Butterscotch Sundaes.

Due to worldly economics, demand for Dirxion Futbol League tickets is down as compared to previous seasons.  At this point, we have estimated the 2009 season will draw a total attendance of 13.

UPCOMING GAMES:

9/17 White Team vs Dark Team

9/24 White Team vs Dark Team

10/1 White Team vs Dark Team

10/8 White Team vs Dark Team

10/15 TBD

WEEK 1: ROSTERS & STATS:

White Team	Goals	Dark Team	Goals
Nick Walz	1	Jon Teson	0
Bruce Darrough	0	David Dames	1
Dan Costello	2	Andy Westerholt	1
John Neuhaus	0	Maria Padilla	0
Mari Remiger	0	Damon Passanise	4
Nathan Phillips	0	Steve Miller	0
Rusty Mitchener	1	Eric Sack	1
Dan Ruder	2	Galin Mitchener	0
Brad Gorman	0	Amber Hoxworth	0
Jen Huber	1	Rob Dames	0
Ron Livaudais	1	Tim Brown	0
Roy Yan	0	Phil Sneed	1

* 1 goal from each team was not claimed for unknown reasons.