Blog Posts: Design/Development
6 Ways to Tell if You Need a New Website»
If you think of your website as an expense, and not as an investment in your business, it’s quite likely it has one or more of the following issues. A well-designed and well thought out website can give your business or organization an edge that can be the difference between thriving and surviving (or not).
When developing WordPress CMS websites, extend the non-bloggy parts of WordPress»
WordPress is an amazing success story, worldwide powering 38% (as of this date) of all websites built on a Content Management System (CMS). There are some good reasons for this: ease of use, a rich ecosystem of plugins and ready-made themes, ease of use, a committed and accessible development community, and ease of use.
WordCamp ABQ 2013 Presentation: Making the Leap from Designer to Designer/Developer»
This is my presentation from WordCamp Albuquerque 2013. Mostly useful for the links to resources on the next to last page.
Recent website launches: all WordPress, all the time»
It was a busy fall at Evo. We actually turned some projects away because we could not get to them in the time frame required (which we hated to do, but not as much as we hate working 20 hrs/day for weeks to keep up with everything). We’d like to highlight four sites launched within the last couple of months, each of them using WordPress as a CMS.
Child Themes: A Sanity-saving Approach to Redesigning/Hacking WordPress Themes»
A friend of mine, relatively new to implementing WordPress sites, emailed me yesterday asking for some advice. She was using Twenty-eleven as her base, and she had run into some problems bending it into the shape she wanted it. I called her and took a look at what she was doing.
We launched a new website with new EvoGallery CMS WordPress theme»
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.
Whew! Launching two websites in the same week»
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…
Website Launch: FBT Architects in Albuquerque»
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…
Why Bad Websites Happen to Good Companies, Part 9: Having a Print Designer Design Your Website»
It’s amazing to me that this still happens with a fair degree of regularity. It would seem obvious that print and the web are two distinct mediums requiring different expertise.…
Why We Don’t Respond to RFPs: There’s a Better Way»
Recently I got into a discussion on LinkedIn about Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and what makes a “good” RFP for web design and development. My position, basically, is that there…