While building my site here at Red Letter Creative, I ran into a lot of situations where Wordpress fell a little short of what I wanted it to do. Page Excerpts were one of those situations. If you haven’t noticed already, Wordpress has an optional excerpt field for posts, but not for pages; which presents a problem for me when I’m using Dan Cameron’s Search Everything plugin and returning the search results via the_excerpt_rss() function…
Author Archives: Zach
Page Excerpt Wordpress Plugin
May 7, 2007 – 1:39 pm
On Deck
May 1, 2007 – 12:12 pm
Though Red Letter Creative is just now officially launching, we wanted to go ahead and tell you what is coming up. Not everyone can afford a web design firm (no matter how small) to design the website they envision inside their heads. It’s hard being a noob, especially when you want your on-line presence to be representative of who you are. So in the spirit of that, we wanted you to know that in the near future, Red Letter Creative will be offering some great freebies.
9rules Disbands Round Submissions
March 10, 2007 – 2:44 pm
After five rounds over the past two years, 9rules has decided to disband round submissions. If you don’t know what 9rules is, it is my suggestion that you’ve been living under a rock however, to quickly sum it up, it’s a social network for bloggers. For the longest time, it’s been quite prestigious to get into due to the fact that every weblog submitted is scrutinized and poured over in assurance of quality content…
Virb
March 7, 2007 – 1:57 pm
In case you haven’t heard, Virb has finally taken off. Produced by the makers of PureVolume, Virb is a social networking site aimed at savvy photographers, web designers and musicians. Offering features comparable to mySpace, Virb hopes to put on a new face for social networking. The “I-don’t suck” face. Combining features that you may have seen elsewhere, Virb tries to combine the best of the web in terms of photography, video, blogging, and so forth…
Minimal Pixel
March 5, 2007 – 3:33 pm
Minimal Pixel, an impeccable little photography studio out of Austin, TX, needed a powerful CMS to present their photography. Built using Joomla as a base, we took this piece of open source software and combined with Slideshowpro, created exactly what the client was looking for.
My Virb Profile
March 5, 2007 – 2:58 pm
Virb.com is an exciting new social network brought to you by the makers of Pure Volume. A social space that is programmed for designers, you’ll find that these profiles are much easier to customize with CSS.
Johnny Beloved
March 5, 2007 – 12:38 pm
Johnny Beloved, my personal blog where my wife and I talk about faith and culture is developed on Wordpress, uses some great custom loops to return content and has a nice banner slideshow courtesy of SSP. We wanted a site that was visually stimulating as well as full of intricate content.
AllCity Technology
March 5, 2007 – 11:43 am
AllCity Technology, for whom I do quite a bit of work, wanted to showcase their available products in an easy to use website. Built on Wordpress, this website utilizes quite a bit of custom work. It was absolutely necessary that this site looked equally well in IE6, IE7 and Firefox.
Moak Casey
March 5, 2007 – 10:55 am
Moak Casey was a web projected I collaborated on with AllCity Technology. Having developed a custom CMS for this firm of lawyers, my job was to make the website both clean and professional.
Acrocomia
February 27, 2007 – 9:24 pm
Acrocomia is an e-commerce site specializing in niche product markets like hammocks, wind chimes and picnic baskets. With over 2,000 products, they required an extensible solution and a colorful scheme that would look great in IE6, IE7 and Firefox. We delivered.
