As usually happens every month or every other month, WordPress has had another update.  The latest version (3.3.1) was released to fix a security issue and 15 minor bug fixes; so be sure to update your blogs as soon as possible.  And as we have been doing in the past, each of our managed WordPress accounts have been already updated, so that our clients can focus on what they do best.

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There has been a recent upgrade to the WordPress platform to 3.3.  This latest version offers a number of improvements and features that make it noteworthy as well as well worth the time to upgrade.  Of these new and enhanced features, the self-sizing admin screen will make mobile users extremely happy.  (more…)

Changing gears a bit, this recent project is for a local church in Columbia, PA – my home town.  The biggest challenge with this site was that there was precious little to start with.  There are no official church logos, letterheads, etc. and there were few ideas presented, some text and a few pictures.  Everything was going to need to be created from scratch!

Since this was my first church web design project, I took a long look around the web at a great many church websites, both locally and regionally, to get a feel for some design ideas.  I seen some great sites for churches and more than a few that I felt could have been executed better, but there was nothing that particularly caught my attention.  I had absolutely no idea of where to even begin or where to go with this web development project at first; I was stuck and worst of all I knew it! (more…)