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WordPress.org Changes Plugin Page Layout
WordPress.org plugin page layout change likely for usability
What the WordPress.org plugin page used to look like.
A couple of weeks ago, WordPress.org changed the layout of their plugins directory plugin pages. The update was likely to improve usability for users trying to determine whether a plugin is trustworthy and what it does. I believe the re-arranging of the page has achieved those goals.
The update removes author links
The layout redesign removes links to the official plugin page. I believe this makes it more difficult for users trying to get support on plugins.
Removing links also affects plugin authors. One of the ways that plugin authors are “rewarded” for creating plugins used to be a link from the WordPress.org website. This resulted in two things: increased traffic to the author’s website and some passed SEO value from the WordPress website to the author’s website.
I recommend all authors to go back through their readme.txt files and add a link to their support pages.
Posted in Web Development
Tagged Layout, Web Design, WordPress, WordPress Development, WordPress Plugins, WordPress.org
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Mountain America Jerky Redesign Launched
Mountain America Jerky Redesign
Mountain America Jerky - Before and After Redesign
I’m happy to announce that today the new Mountain America Jerky website launched. Check out the site and try some of their crazy-good Garlic Black Pepper Beef Jerky. One perk of working with a nice client who sells beef jerky is getting samples of the product! Seriously, though, it’s the best jerky I’ve ever had.
I started working with Mountain America Jerky as a SEO. Jerky is a competitive field, and they wanted to improve their ranking. After working with Chuck on the website’s optimization, he told me he wanted to go big and rebrand the site. The result is a rustic, functional, beautiful website.
Posted in Code, Web Design Portfolio
Tagged Beef Jerky, Cufon, Denver SEO, gzip, Jerky, Mountain America Jerky, Text Replacement, Web Design, Web Development, Web Fonts, Word Spacing, YSlow
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Career-Magic.com Launched
An updated website for a Denver career coach
CAREERMagic came to Katz Web Design to give their website some fresh blood.
When Career-Magic.com was last updated, I was in high school. Yes, it’s true — and I said it. The website not only needed updating visually, but there were a lot of parts of the website that needed to be better integrated with how the business ran. The new Career-Magic.com website launched last night.
Obama White House Website Design — the President's Web Site
Update: the new White House Website is launched!
The new White House website design: what to expect?
We know who President-Elect Barack Obama’s web designers were: SimpleScott, and later Walker Hamilton too. My sources tell me (don’t you have sources? 
) that Scott Thomas and Walker Hamilton are no longer working with the Obama or Change.gov website. Scott Thomas is busy working on an art collective project (VERY cool stuff).
Change.gov web design
The Change.gov site is basically BarackObama.com restyled a bit. The Change.gov site uses many resources from the barackobama.com website, including most of the main CSS file. The Change.gov website was designed by Matt Ipcar. The Change.gov website’s back-end (just like the Obama website) is being handled by Blue State Digital.
What can we learn about the WhiteHouse.gov web design?
If the Change.gov web site is any indication, we can extrapolate the following:
Creating a Real Estate Website in WordPress — Part 2
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In Part 1 of Building a real estate website in WordPress, you learned about a plugin called FreshPost that we used to set up the basic structure of your real estate website. Using this article, you will be able to display a single listing page that has all the content your real estate website will need.
Posted in Code, Design, Tutorial
Tagged Real Estate, Real Estate Web Design, Real Estate Website, Realtor Website, Tutorial, Web Design, WordPress, Wordpress Real Estate
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Web Design Coupon — Up to $300 off a new website!
Katz Web Design is was offering up to $300.00 in discounts on all new web design projects.
From June 2 to August 2 2008, we want to thank you for your feedback — save up to $300.00 on your website. After you have your new website, just write a review of your experience with KWD, and save money!
Here’s how the web design discount works:
- $100.00 off final payment for one review on a major website (Citysearch.com, Yelp.com, Yahoo) after the web design project is complete.
- $20.00 off final payment for each additional review on another major website.
Tableless, accessible, nearly validating osCommerce — Rewriting the beast
osCommerce accessibility stinks
ArrayosCommerce default installation is a huge mess for accessibility. Every piece of code that the platform spits out has endless tables and poorly coded HTML — finding your way through the code is like trying to clear brush.
The simple solution to osCommerce accessibility is to install the Simple Template System and put together a XHTML/CSS’ed out template. That only solves one part of the problem, however, because your wonderful template is going to be wrapping around a whole slew of undesirable code.
Over a year ago, a client of mine wanted an osCommerce website. I wanted to create a masterpiece of accessibility. I tackled osCommerce head-on and re-wrote most of the code that creates the HTML. It was a nightmare, but I created a nearly validating eCommerce website with osCommerce.
The experience was so scarring that I haven’t yet written about it Nearly every file was affected, so upgrading it would be a nightmare, but it’s truly an effort of love.
KWD presents: a nearly validating, tableless osCommerce website
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Tagged Cart, CSS, customization, eCommerce, osCommerce, project, Shopping Cart, Web Design, XHTML
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Denver Real Estate Website – Blue Sky Development Group
In anticipation of a magazine ad in Denver magazine 5280, we launched two static web pages featuring properties.
- 2250 South Marion Street
- 2372 South Humboldt Street
These websites are no longer active.
These pages are a preview to the WordPress real estate website I’ve been working on. The complete site will be coming soon, including some nifty features that someone should turn into plugins!
Posted in Web Design Portfolio
Tagged Denver Real Estate, Denver Realtor, Real Estate, Realtor, Web Design, Website
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Standards-Compliant Shopping Cart with XHTML & CSS!
I’ve been looking for a shopping cart like this for a long time
One of my clients is looking to move from osCommerce to a more user-friendly solution, and I really want to use a shopping cart that is XHTML and standards-compliant…Something that validates and looks pretty with stylesheets off, has a full feature set, and a great admin panel.
I was quite pleasantly surprised when I discovered Tradingeye. They have a well-coded shopping cart solution as well as a CMS. Very, very interesting. Looks like a pleasure to develop for; like WordPress for eCommerce. Check out their Shopping cart demo.
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Tagged Cart, CSS, eCommerce, Links, osCommerce, Shopify, Shopping Cart, Standards, Web Design, XHTML
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Westside Business Builders chooses Katz Web Design
Westside Business Builders is a networking group based in Golden, Colorado. Their website provides general information about the group, and it serves as a member directory. Katz Web Design is a member of the group.
The membership committee asked Katz Web Design to prepare a proposal for the WSBB website, and this Wednesday, the group voted to have KWD redesign the website to improve appearance and functionality.
Posted in Design, KWS, SEO
Tagged Denver SEO, Design, Functionality, Golden, interface, Layout, Optimization, SEO, Structure, Web Design, Website Redesign
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