Chompers is now available, and will be available in Wal-Mart’s nationwide starting this summer. I updated the products page to include 3 more products on the chompers line. I replaced the LivePipe rollover tabs with Spry tabs, and also used Spry to make the sliding panels, turns out Spry is quite handy.
I use WordPress a lot, I usually recommend it to my clients for any site as it’s easy to use, easy to manage, and very easy to set up. Whenever I set up a new install of WordPress I also install a small collection of plug-ins that I’ve found to be essential in my work.
I use flickr for photo sharing just because of the sheer amount of people on flickr, and it easily syncs with most other services, and especially with this plug in. It allows you to set and organize all your photos on flickr, and then those changes can be seen on your blog.
I always use this plug in to create the titles and urls, and set site wide keywords and such. Pretty straight forward and easy to set up.
If you have a google account, then you should be using analytics on your site, with this plug in you can simply enter your anayltics tracking code and you’re done, everything else is taken care of.
If you twitter, and this really only applies if you do, you can tweet from your blog, or blog from your twitter, a lot of features makes this handy for tweetheads.
Backing up your WP database seems important, so I install this too.
Simplest way to set a site up for mobile browsers, it can detect and change the CSS depending on the user’s browser, and comes with a collection of mobile ready themes.
Let me know if there’s any plug-ins your WP blog can’t live without.
Finally got around to fixing some of the graphical/style elements of the HeadShot Blog and our Impulse One Blog. Both were in need of some tweaking, so check ‘em out and let me know what you think of the progress so far.
I’m now in the process of learning adsense, because we don’t actually have any money to pay for adwords, so let’s see if there’s anything to placing unobtrusive text ads on our blogs. I’ve started by testing a few banners on iNeed while it’s still operating. Next I’ll learn to start placing it unobtrusively on all of our blogs, and then to any other blog that I make in the future that may need it, seems to be the thing to do these days.
Currently testing out a few adsense plug-ins, but nothing’s really standing out as a useful solution yet, maybe I’ll find it out there, and then actually post that plug-in article I’ve been working on, but that’s all in the future, unless your reading this now, then it may be in the present or past, or may not have happened at all, the unknown has yet to decide, or has it already been done….ooooeeeeeooooeeeeeeeuuuuu…..
Some minor visual fixes and suddenly a site can turn feel so much better. I finally got back to cleaning up the visual flaws that were bothering me on 15roseave.com, and added some new functionality as well.
Re-worked the header,
added a global translation plug-in,
polished the social sidebar and now it includes the recent tweets,
Made the reservation button a fixed tab, and easy to understand,
and did a complete overall to the Rooms & Rates page, as well as the room pages themselves.
The wall is getting some action,
and I was finally able to write a few posts for the experiences.
And using the wonderful Twitter Tools plugin I have a tweet digest reporting all the tweets of the day, which is actually quite useful as I’m using the 15 rose twitter to RT any and all awesome things happening in the Venice/Santa Monica Area, so follow us if that’s your thing.
Head over and check out 15roseave.com sometime, let me know what you think. And if your looking for a place to stay in California, well, you know where you can go…
So, we made another product site for Chompers Pet Snacks. The thing about our “sites”, is that they’re more of online brochures. I’ve always felt we needed something a little more dynamic, and a little more up-to-datable, and something for all of our brands. So I did what any other person of the internet would do, made a new sub-domain, installed a fresh copy wordpress, found an appropriate theme, & modified it. Now we have blog.impulse-one.com as our repository of updates for Impulse One. We’ve always needed a news section, or a place for press releases for all of our products, and this site should act as that.
Still plenty of work to do on it, but the framework is in place, and that’s what matters at the moment, the graphical fixes and extended features will come in time, but for now I’m focusing on the filling it with some content.
Thought we were just a beverage company supplying you with ENERGY and health? WRONG! We also love dogs, so much so that we’re making the best dog snacks available. Chompers is our newest product line with a certain demographic in mind…dogs. So are you a dog, then you just try Chompers, if you have a dog, then you should get it some Chompers. We’re working to get the product into stores now, check the updates on Impulse One to find out the latest information on any and all of our products.
I wrote the html and css for the site, and used LivePipe, a handy little javascript/css solution for the rollover tabs on the “Products” page.
ThinkAheadColorado.com CSS Theme Development
I’ve been working contractually for Public Strategies here in Austin since about February, usually helping with tweaks and back end stuff on several different sites by now, and this is the first site I was asked to build out all the CSS for the theme.
They have a full “digital” team over there, I was sent a .psd(seen above) from the designer and I cut it up and coded the rest, the joomla install was readied by the project manager and we very swiftly turned around the site. I really enjoy working with the team at Public Strategies as opposed to only myself and being solely responsible for every single aspect of the design and implementation, being a useful cog in a well working machine is extremely gratifying in it’s own, and I’m happy to part of such a useful team of people from time to time.