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WordPress Security Tasks
A checklist from Kristen Wright at iThemes Web security is a big deal. Keeping a website secure is incredibly important. Case in point, Equifax. Here are some tips for maintaining WordPress security from Kristen Wright at iThemes. I expanded on Kristens recommendations a bit. The iThemes Toolbox is one of many good tools out there.…
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Drupal Child Theme: Updating PainNET website with New Child Theme
We just created a new Drupal design and Drupal child theme. WordPress has been our go to web builder for over 5 years, but when Community Health Center and the Weitzman Institute in Middletown asked if we could update their Drupal site, we took on the challenge. The site was pretty complicated set up as…
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National Heritage Corridor Website: The Last Green Valley
The Last Green Valley National Heritage Corridor website was redesigned by us in 2014. The original site had run its course and we were brought in to re-imagine how The Last Green Valley could manage their National Heritage Corridor online. The new mobile friendly website was launched in the Fall of 2014 and over the…
Read MoreWordPress Hosting 10 best from Elegant Theme’s Blog
Tom Ewer at Elegant Themes put together a top ten list of managed WordPress hosting. Choosing the right web host is one of the most important decisions to make, and also one of the most difficult. Good hosting is critical for truly optimizing the end user’s experience; however, it’s easy to feel confused when trying to…
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Moodle Design
Recently we created a new Moodle design for the Weitzman Institute. Moodle is an open source Learning Management System (LMS) for online education. The goal was to create a Moodle website that became part of the Weitzman design family. This was my first Moodle design. Moodle has a lot of similarities with WordPress. It’s open…
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5 steps to Building a Network of Volunteers
Organizations may have robust traffic on there website, but are they taking advantage of this traffic to build a network of volunteers? We created a campaign for The Last Green Valley to build their volunteeer list and to identify what areas of interest volunteers had in helping the organization. Here are 5 steps that may…
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National Heritage Corridor Website: Blackstone Heritage Corridor
Blackstone National Heritage Corridor website redesign was a major project. A basic WordPress website was recreated with a feature rich custom WordPress theme. The website works as a portal to the national heritage corridor and manages members, events, donations and ecommerce sales, interactive maps, and a long list of content designed to educate and inspire…
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Maria Pacheco, her book and 3 market spaces online
Maria Pacheco Winner of 2016 Diane Von Furstanberg International Award. We had the honor of working with Maria Pacheco a winner of the 2016 Diane Von Furstanberg Vital Voices award DVF International Award, helping produce her book “A Child’s Guide to Making Friends and Changing the World.” The book takes us on a journey through…
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South Windsor telecommunications company needed a marketing website redesign.
The Telspan is a South Windsor telecommunications company and they had just recently had a company redesign their website and they were unsatisfied with the results. I was brought in to design a modern, mobile friendly website that their marketing department could use to manage their online marketing. The site is designed and built on a…
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