Nov 22, 2012; Category: Design/Development, Uncategorized; Tags: WordPress, WordPress Themes; No Comments
It’s been a year since we started to redesign our website. The old “cobbler’s children, barefoot” thing, and all that: evowebdev.com had been wearing the same skin for almost three years, which is way too long. A lot changes in three years on the internet, and websites need to keep up.
Sep 17, 2011; Category: Content Management System, Design/Development; Tags: Custom Fields, Custom Post Types, WordPress as CMS; No Comments
Slides from my presentation at WordCamp Albuquerque, Sep. 17, 2011. Also includes info about modifying Tiny MCE editor to make it more useful (and less dangerous).
Jun 27, 2011; Category: Content Management System, Design/Development, WordPress; Tags: Custom Fields, Custom Post Types, WordPress as CMS; 3 Comments
Recently, I had an opportunity to build an events listing that showed only upcoming events, with the next event appearing at the top. That’s pretty easy to accomplish. But I also wanted past events to disappear from the listing and show up instead on an events archive listing. It took a lot of searching.
Feb 17, 2011; Category: Design/Development, WordPress; Tags: Design/Development, Theme Development, WordPress as CMS; No Comments
Recently I launched a complete remake of my personal art site: raygulick.com. I’m an oil painter, and my painting site has needed an upgrade for at least 2-3 years. Some opportunities as a painter are beginning to come my way, so I had some motivation to redesign the website and, of course, I built it on WordPress.
Jan 25, 2011; Category: Design/Development, WordPress; Tags: Design/Development, Marketing, WordPress as CMS; No Comments
We launched two WordPress-based websites this week, and I’m pleased with both. But I’m really happy double launches are an unusual event. So many things need to happen just before launch, in addition to the inevitable last-minute content changes, and two at once is pretty demanding. The first site, launching Thursday evening, is The Hilltop
Nov 27, 2010; Category: Content Management System, Design/Development, Marketing, WordPress; Tags: CMS, Communication, Marketing, WordPress as CMS; No Comments
IntelliCyt Corp. is an interesting biotech company in Albuquerque. They make high-throughput flow cytometry equipment and software, with a unique patented process. We were fortunate to do their first website (and their logo) in 2007 while they were still a very small startup. They are still considered a startup (and are attracting funding from venture
Oct 22, 2010; Category: Content Management System, Design/Development; Tags: CMS, Design/Development, jQuery; No Comments
We launched FBT Architects’ website this week. It marks an increasingly rare (for Evo) instance of building websites with a custom-developed Content Management System, as we’ve moved primarily to WordPress as a CMS platform. In this case, however, a custom CMS was necessary to allow FBT the ability to manage the portfolio thumbnail grid images