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Archive for » October, 2009
It’s no secret that we’re fans of WordPress here at Nicasio Design. WordPress was originally a blogging platform when it first started, but it has no evolved into so much more.
Besides blogging WordPress is being used as a content management system by small and large sites alike.
Here at Nicasio we have found that due to the great documentation of WordPress, it’s robust set of internal functions and classes, and separation of functionality from aesthetics that WordPress makes a great framework for rapid web development for custom projects.
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A new version of WordPress has been released. This release fixes a few minor security and bug issues and will more than likely be one of the final iterations of the 2.8.5 branch as WordPress 2.9 is in the works.
Most of these issues were discovered during the development of WordPress 2.9, and the WordPress team wanted to make sure the 2.8.X branch was up to date before the release of 2.9
Some key fixes include:
- A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
- Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated.
- Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins.
- Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old plugins.
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Our specialty here at Nicasio Design has always been custom WordPress Design and Development. However some well established businesses have pre-existing sites that they are more or less happy with, but always looking to improve.
This was the case with Knife Coach and Wendy Lewis Co. Both of these sites are owned by beauty expert Wendy Lewis. Wendy was happy with the site’s overall design and content, but wanted to bring them up to date by making them more dynamic and making some design tweaks.
Both of these sites were previously static sites, however in order to give the client more control over their content and make the sites more dynamic we ported both sites over to WordPress while making some fairly significant design tweaks in the process. We also made all of the content on the site dynamic, giving maximum control to the Wendy and her team.
More screenshots after the break.
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According to the 2009 Open Source Content Management System Market Share Report, WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal are dominating the market share on open source content management systems. That comes as no surprise as these platforms have the largest online communities and are the most documented.
One of the most positive findings of this report is how satisfied users are with WordPress, as the illustration below illustrates.
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“Record time is an understatement! Your team performed exceptionally and met all of our internal deadlines. Tarver Games PR is thrilled with how great the site looks, and how simple it is to update and maintain. Thank you for making our company launch tangible with a killer website!”
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“Amazing. Thanks [Nicasio]. I had really high standards for the quality of the site and high expectations for you guys as a team and I’m happy to say you exceeded those expectations on all fronts by a mile. Again, I can’t thank you guys enough for making the development process so easy. Rest assured I’ll be tapping [Nicasio] for development on our next site. Thanks!”
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“Great job Nicasio! Automattic, the creators of WordPress, called your work clean and elegant. This speaks very well of your work since the turnaround on our project was so quick! Thank You!”
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“Just wanted to thank you Nicasio for all your help and tell you how pleased we were with the technical support we recently received from you and your team on our recent WordPress project.. You guys really did take the worry and stress out of getting this done! Having had disastrous results in the past working with other WordPress developers. Working with Nicasio Design was like night and day, as your team made it extremely easy to get the job done, correctly and quickly. We were absolutely impressed with the professionalism, knowledge and ability to actively listen, quickly answer our questions and resolve our WordPress issues. It is a rarity that you find such a competent, dedicated and knowledgeable support team such as Nicasio Design. I would like to say “hats off” to Nicasio Design for helping customers like us feel comfortable and supported. Thank you for taking the time and committing to making sure, that our WordPress project was a successful one.”
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We’re proud to announce the launch of our first fully integrated WordPress e-commerce site.
Neuro Enhancement Strategies (http://neuro-enhancement.com) needed a website that allowed them to manage their page content, photos, media, blog, contact requests, newsletter sign ups, events, and also have the ability to sell their products. They wanted a centralized interface for the management of all of these components.
The solution we proposed was a custom WordPress build utilizing the Shopp plugin for e-commerce. Through some template customizations we were able to make this platform not only meet Neuro Enhancement’s functional requirements, but their design requirements as well.
The site is tied into a 3rd party payment gateway and the USPS web tools API. This allows for payment and shipping calculations to happen seamlessly for customers.
Since Shopp is built as a WordPress plugin, the staff at Neuro Enhancement has one central place where they can manage their content, media, products and new orders from their store.
Screen shots after the break.
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We just wanted to send a big thanks to the WordPress community. As of today our Dynamic Headers Plugin has been downloaded over 20,000 times!
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“You guys did a wonderful job–very fast and professional. I appreciate it so much. I have my website back! I look forward to working with you in the future.”
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