Archive for April, 2007
Getting Sites Built. A Case Study.
Saturday, April 28th, 2007THE ASIA FOUNDATION is a nonprofit, non-governmental, philanthropic organization that works to build a peaceful, prosperous, and open Asian-Pacific community. Getting Sites Built has developed a number of web solutions for this organization. We are also their contingency webmasters.
Here are three examples of the work that Getting Sites Built has done to address their […]
Keep the color blind in mind when designing websites
Monday, April 23rd, 2007Jeff Sarmiento of FreshBooks alerts us to a useful online tool that allows you to check what your images or website(s) look like from the eyes of someone who is color blind.
The site says, “Roughly 1 in 20 people have some sort of color vision deficiency.” I haven’t had any feedback yet regarding this issue […]
What Would Seth Godin Do? A Plugin for WordPress.
Thursday, April 19th, 2007Seth Godin advocates using cookies to determine new visitors to your site. Here’s an example of what he’s talking about. Let’s say I am visiting Tod Maffin’s site, todbits, for the first time. I’d see his site and a boxed in area right under the title of the first post. Inside this boxed area is […]
I like the Admin Menu Plugin For WordPress
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007WordPress plugins are central to an interesting and personal Dashboard and site. Everyone has their list of favorite plugins. As one who makes a living installing and customizing WordPress sites, I have my list of essential plugins. I’ll share those in the near future. For now I wanted to mention one of my favorite plugins, […]
Just Launched: Philanthropy Associates Redesign
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007Philanthropy Associates wanted a redesign and the ability to easily update their site without having to always depend on a webmaster. Getting Sites Built redesigned the site, giving it a fresh look and a header that pops off the page. For ease of maintenance and scalability, we built the site on the WordPress foundation and […]
New York Skywatch Site Launched
Friday, April 13th, 2007New York Skywatch is a WordPress powered website built and customized by Getting Sites Built. In addition to WordPress, a Gallery was also installed which will make it very easy for the site owner to upload photos.
The site was built in less than two weeks. It features nice touches like a FeedBurner RSS feed so […]
