First – I know my mom and other folks who are not as tech savvy as others will probably read this – so I’ll answer their question first – what’s a CMS? Well, CMS stands for Content Management System – basically – it’s software to help people manage their content for their websites. I imagine …
We love teaching. And we’re no strangers to teaching WordPress around these parts. In fact, we’ve spent over 500 hours teaching and training folks on WordPress alone. So we’re really excited to announce these new WordPress classes. In partnership with The Hub (an incubator for “where change happens”), we’ll be teaching a new WordPress in …
We were recently asked by Dancers Group in San Francisco to write a Top Ten Tips for building out a well performing website. We’ve worked with many arts organizations (including Dancers Group as of 2012), so this was quite fun to do. Especially because we were writing for artists. Below is the full article, as …
Exciting news! We started working with Fractured Atlas this past Summer on a new WordPress plugin for Artful.ly. And now – the WordPress plugin we’ve been working has just been released and ready for downloads. Why is this exciting? What does it do? And what is Artful.ly? Well – for answers to this and more …
We just posted this on our Status Blog, but thought we’d post it here as well. Our Status Blog is mainly for clients that are hosted with us. More on that later. For now, here’s the WordPress 3.5 announcement : There’s a new version of WordPress due out today. WordPress 3.5 includes many new features. …
On October 19th, I was hit by a car while riding my bike. 5 months later, I did my first ever triathlon with my sister. Below is my story of how and why. First – a little bit about my injury. When I was hit by the car, I was launched off my bike and …
For those of you who’ve worked with us, you know we regularly use Basecamp to manage all of our client (and internal) projects. It’s been a great place to manage todo’s, milestones, and store those important project files. But many of our clients have said that it’s simply, well…old. And we’ve agreed with them. There …
We’re proud to announce that we are partnering with Misnomer Dance Theater to stream their performance live from the Joyce Soho. The performance and live stream will happen tonight (Friday) at 7:30pm. You can catch the action on the LiveStream channel or watch the embedded video below.
Installing WordPress can be either an easy or difficult process, depending on which hosting company you’re working with. For people using Bluehost, Dreamhost, and Godaddy all you need to do is go into the control panel and do what is called a “one-click installation.” When running a “one-click installation” script you are basically telling the …
Oh no! My dog ate my website! That is exactly what it feels like when you upgrade your WordPress site and your older plugins don’t exactly get along with the new software. When dealing with WordPress, it is not uncommon to run into a few bugs and hiccups. Sometimes you upgrade for security (like when …
Twitter is one of the fastest growing destinations on the web today. People from all walks of life are tweeting about what’s going on the world, and why it’s important to them. But, like the old saying goes, “there is more than one way to skin a cat” there are many ways to use Twitter …
Tech4Good is a meetup group that connects people from all types of industries. Whether you are a non-profit organization, a funder, a programmer, an individual with a great idea, or a social changemaker, this meetup group will welcome you. As most good meetups do, members are encouraged to share, learn and collaborate. This month’s speaker, …
The last few blog posts I’ve posted here have all started out with “exciting news” – this one’s no different as we’re doing a Giveaway of a WordPress book! WordPress 3 Complete by April Silver is a thorough guide on all things WordPress and even includes code samples if you get the e-book. We’ve got …
There’s no other way to say this – we’re really proud to announce the launch of NDNF’s new site : http://newdirectors.org. In collaboration with the MoMA and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, we built a custom WordPress theme to house the film festival’s lineup. In celebration of the festival’s 40th anniversary, we developed a …
We’ve got super exciting news – a project we’ve been working on with MTV + Purpose is finally out in the wild! Together with the fantastic design and strategy team at Purpose, we developed a custom wordpress plugin for MTV’s Act Blog, helping move people towards collective action. Some of the basic tech details … …
Either you’ve got a Facebook page (or you about to set one up). Either way, you’re probably wondering how to use that page to generate some cash. You’re not the only one. So the good folks at Nonprofit Webinars put together this great webinar on just that – how to use facebook to help your …
