Published on January 11, 2010
We’ve had a couple of clients lately who have brought their own designs to us, in need of coding and installing with a content management system (namely Wordpress). While we do create designs for some clients, our specialty is really coding and custom programming. So when we find a talented designer, it works out well to cooperate and let each of us concentrate on our specialties. Read more…
Published on October 20, 2009
We’ve had several additions to our portfolio in the last few months. Read more…
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Back in the good old days of coding websites, a lot was done by trial and error. You would assign styles to objects on your web page and hope everything would come together as you envisioned. Without fail, styling issues would arise, and as the website grew larger it was a headache to figure out what style was affecting what HTML object. Read more…
Published on July 29, 2009
Fact: your computer’s hard drive will eventually fail. In order mitigate this circumstance, we recommend that our clients back up their online as well as local files at least once a week. Back up more frequently if the idea of loosing a week’s worth of work is horrifying to you. Read more…
Published on June 22, 2009
Upgrading and maintaining a Wordpress installation has recently become a lot less time-consuming thanks to the automatic upgrade feature for both the main Wordpress installation and the plugins. It is ideal, though, if you’re managing multiple installations for multiple clients, that these clients are running off of one installation of Wordpress. This makes upgrades and maintenance a lot less painful. Read more…
Published on April 17, 2009
The default comment feature on Wordpress is good for generating discussion on topics that you start, but what if your visitors want to create their own topics? A forum is the best format for this type of discussion. I have worked with two different forum softwares for Wordpress. One is a project of the Wordpress folks (Automattic) called bbPress. And the other is a plugin for Wordpress called Simple:Press. Read more…
Published on March 19, 2009
Girlebooks.com was one of the first sites I set up in Wordpress. The site is not only a hobby for me but also a great playground to see what I can do with Wordpress. It also is a great site to point prospective clients to when they want to see examples of what we’ve done with Wordpress.
The site’s main focus is hosting free ebooks. Since we have our own hosting space for our web development work, I have been using the extra space on that account for Girlebooks. Lately, due the the increasing popularity of the site, Girlebooks has been hogging all of our extra bandwidth and disc space so that we have none left for hosting new clients or upgrading existing accounts. It was either buy more space on our hosting account or seek out an alternative for Girlebooks’ growing needs. Read more…
Published on February 18, 2009
GIC already had a fully functional website and design. What they wanted was an ecommerce area that would allow them to sell digital products. We set up an online marketplace for GIC’s Wordpress-powered website. In the Marketplace visitors can add digital products to their cart, purchase their products (payments are made through PayPal Standard), and download their product immediately upon successful payment. In addition to the public marketplace, we created a consultant-only marketplace that is accessible to certified consultants only. Read more…
