Looks like font support might be pretty close which is great news. I can’t wait to start building CSS based navigation that can actually match a photoshop mockup without having to either wreck it with the same old fonts or spend a ton of time slicing images of text. Updating those image based navigation elements a few years down the road will get a ton easier as well. Woohoo!
Web Open Font Format backed by Mozilla, type foundries – Ars Technica.
In case you noticed – we just switched the news page to an install of wordpress. We’ve been integrating wordpress as the blogging engine behind our CMS for a few sites and it seems to be a nice fit. We’re not out to build a tool to be everything to everyone – so it’s good to find tools that we can integrate to build a seemless transition between site content and other components. For a site forum – we’ve built some hooks for phpBB3 and we’re looking into replacing our simple cart module with a wrapper for Opencart.
Wow! Where has the summer gone. We had a short unplanned outage last evening from about 10:15-10:30pm due to some network issues on our border firewall during an upgrade of some server gear. Service came back up just fine after a restart but we’re replacing that piece of hardware just in case.
Some highlights since July:
We’ve just launched another lifetouch site for our good friends to the north. Check out http://www.lifetouch.ca. Our CMS system has seen some major updates with this project to accomodate some cool photo gallery features.
Good times today at the Hut. We’re proud to be the recipients of the Guadalupe Award for volunteer service at San Miguel Middle school in Minneapolis. Check them out at www.sanmiguel-mpls.org. The National Association of Realtors just added a carbon calculator on greenresourcecouncil.org using the system we developed for Eco Hatchery. Lots of jQuery ajax goodness.
Walsh Design hat trick! The third site for Walsh Design Group just went live today – great artwork from Velvet Peel. Full service interior design plus 2 retail outlets – I don’t know how they do it! The portfolio and product displays on the site use some nice modified jQuery carousel items and an integrated javascript calendar.
Web-Don Inc. just launched an updated site using our content management tool and a new design from Synchronicity Web Designs. The Center for Victims of Torture has also updated their site engine – they’ve been using our content management tool since 2002. With the new engine, they’ll be able to easily reskin the site when they’re ready without any loosing any content.
Work has also started on the third major revision of the CMS tool. We’ll be incorporating a lot of usability improvements and keeping up with the Web2.0 trends by updating a lot of the control features to utilize the jQuery UI libraries.
A few new sites launched with some fun added functionity.
We’ve added some great features to our backup server! We now support CrashPlan PRO from Code42. It’s similar in functionality to our current BoxBackup system with a nicer user interface and a few extra wistles and bells. Crashplan provides a cross-platform backup system which will store your information both on a local USB drive and on our servers for offsite redundancy. All data is encrypted on at your office – so the system is HIPPA compliant. Best of all it just does what you expect – back up your stuff. To get started just download the client software for your platform and give us a call.
Werc Werk Works just launched their new site with press releases and information on their projects designed by Tilka Design. It incorporates a media component that allows them to pack a lot of image and video content into a nice small package. There are also a few layout features on the site that stretched our jQuery skills to nice effect.
PRO Client for Windows
PRO Client for Mac OS X