This is to let our clients know that I’ll be on holidays from July 24-Aug 9 on the Left Coast, discovering if BC is as beautiful as the license plates claim. During this time, we will have regular email access in the evenings in case of emergencies.

If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us before July 24. If not, have a great month, and we’ll see you back here in August.

The Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute wanted to geographically show where their members are located in Canada and India on their website with an interactive map that they could update and maintain themselves. We tossed around the idea of using Flash or the Google Maps API to accomplish this, but eventually settled on a jQuery-based map. Here’s how we linked the map to ExpressionEngine so that all the data displayed on the map could be controlled by Shastri and dynamically generated by the CMS.

Continue reading "Using ExpressionEngine To Power an Interactive jQuery Map"

Continue reading "IE6, Floats, and HTML Comments"

Continue reading "How Writers Can Get the Most Out of Their Blogs"

You’d think being a Mac owner and a fan of PC video games might somehow conflict with each other — especially when said Mac is the sole platform in my house on which to play games. But, with Boot Camp, a Mac will run Windows just as well as any PC. However, Macs, and the iMac in particular, aren’t really made for gaming and don’t have top-of-the-line gaming hardware installed, so it’s often a bit of a crapshoot knowing which games they will run well. In an effort to better document how games play on the Mac, we’ve launched Mac Gaming, a site that shares the settings we’ve used to get the most out of the games we play. Will a certain game run on your Mac? Visit the site and find out.

Continue reading "[DirectAdmin] Using Installatron to Install WordPress"

Continue reading "[DirectAdmin] Spam Blocking with SpamAssassin"

Continue reading "[DirectAdmin] Changing Your Email Password"

Continue reading "[DirectAdmin] Setting Up an Email Account"

Fictional political satire, written in the form of tongue-in-cheek banter in a small-town prairie saloon. The result is a refreshing antidote to political correctness, sloppy thinking and lazy journalism.

This is one worth subscribing to, if you’re interested in Canadian politics, journalism, and/or skunks.

Continue reading "New Logo. New Website."

We’ve updated the Gleichen website, making some design tweaks, updating the content, and putting everything on top of the wonderful ExpressionEngine content management system (CMS). Specifically, we’ve added more businesses to the directory (if your business isn’t there, let us know — listings are free), created a new Services and Utilities page, and brought back the events calendar. Also, since the site is now running on top of a CMS, community members can add news and events themselves.

Our largest project to date has just launched: the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute website. Six months in the making, the site is a complete overhaul of Shastri’s old site. Built on top of ExpressionEngine, the site features an all new design, a news section, event calendar, forums, experts database, institutional repository, newsletter archive, and tons more. On top of that, the site is available in both English and French. Many thanks to Sarah Hawkins at Shastri for being incredible to work with, to Joslin for the great design, and to Renate Preuss for adding content and bug testing.

One last project before we head on our honeymoon trip to the UK….

Congratulations to Agriteam Canada, whose new website just went live. As always, it was awesome to work with Kiley Turner at Turner-Riggs, Monique Trottier at Boxcar Marketing, and Joslin Green at Player Industries. Coding websites wouldn’t be half as much fun without such great projects and people to work with.

See you all in July!

This is just a quick note to say I’ll be away for the month of June. I’m getting married(!) on May 17, and then Erin and I will be in the UK from May 31 to July 1. During that time, I won’t have regular email access, but I will have someone checking my email regularly in case of emergencies.

If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact me before the end of month.

To mark the 10th anniversary of its highly regarded Quartet poetry series, Frontenac House is planning a significant expansion of the format to feature 10 books instead of four, to appear in 2010. Appropriately, the new series will be titled Dektet 2010.

If you’re a poet, this isn’t to be missed.

We’re delighted to introduce the new website for Purely Inspired – Kelsey Yule Academy of Beauty.

I’m happy to announce the launch of the newly redesigned BC Book Prizes website. Thank you to Monique Trottier at Work Industries for bringing Shadow Box on board to code and program the site, and kudos to Joslin Green at Player Industries for the great new design.

Our poetry book review e-zine PoetryReviews.ca just turned two, and we’ve given it a face-lift, installing a new theme and adding some fresh content.

We’re back from holidays and happy to announce the launch of our second BiblioFile project: Rubicon Press.