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We were recently asked to build a landing page by our clients (& friends!) over at Joie de Vivre Hotels. The landing page features all of their hotel properties located in Southern California. While most of their hotels are located in San Francisco,… Read the rest
After months of work, we are proud to announce the launch/redesign of the new Groovy Like a Movie website and homepage SlideDeck. Groovy Like a Movie is a boutique digital production company here in San Diego. Brent Altomare has… Read the rest
Stock photos are great, but they are abused. Too many young websites go for the boxed wine specials, when there is some great “two-buck chuck” out there. Not every project or client will be fortunate enough to have a huge collection of custom photography to fit your every need, but…
Here at dt we are always looking for ways to make a user’s web experience more enjoyable and effective. Whether we are working on client projects or internal work, we are constantly trying to innovate as oppose to being just “good enough.” This has lead… Read the rest
After being thrown a major curve-ball with WordPress 3.0’s new post_type validation for image attachments, we needed to re-think the way that we were storing SlideDecks within WordPress. We were already thinking about making this change in the SlideDeck for WordPress plugin anyways and this… Read the rest
We were recently asked to build a landing page by our clients (& friends!) over at Joie de Vivre Hotels. The landing page features all of their hotel properties located in Southern California. While most of their hotels are located in San Francisco, there are a handful of hotels located throughout the Los Angeles and Orange County regions.
After months of work, we are proud to announce the launch/redesign of the new Groovy Like a Movie website and homepage SlideDeck. Groovy Like a Movie is a boutique digital production company here in San Diego. Brent Altomare has been a longtime friend and client of digital-telepathy. For the past 6 years, dt has worked with Brent to help communicate the tremendous value that Groovy Like a Movie brings to their clients. They help their clients communicate their stories through video to encourage them to think, feel and do.
Stock photos are great, but they are often abused. Too many young websites go for the boxed wine specials, when there is some great “two-buck chuck” out there. Not every project or client will be fortunate enough to have a huge collection of custom photography to fit your every need, but bad stock photography can ruin your site and your client’s credibility. (Embarrassingly enough, having a client with an infinite amount of photos may have been a recurring dream of mine.) As alluring as they may seem, don’t be tempted to use those cheap stock business photographs with the same 5 people in 80 different poses. Take your time. Do some research and set a standard for the website and for yourself. Continue Reading
Here at dt we are always looking for ways to make a user’s web experience more enjoyable and effective. Whether we are working on client projects or internal work, we are constantly trying to innovate as oppose to being just “good enough.” This has lead us to creating new solutions such as SlideDeck and our newest creation – the Hello Bar.
The hello bar is a simple message bar that sits across the top of a website. The goal of the hello bar is to grab your user’s attention and point them to an area of interest. It can be used for internal CTA’s, links to articles/blog posts, tweets, important notifications, updates or anything else that you would like to call attention to.
You have probably seen these before on other websites, browsers, or applications. It is by no means a new idea. Our goal is to allow anyone to easily & quickly create a Hello Bar and embed it on their site. Once it is implemented, users will easily be able to manage, edit, and even view reports in a simple admin panel.
Check out the landing page here and stay tuned for more to come!
After being thrown a major curve-ball with WordPress 3.0’s new post_type validation for image attachments, we needed to re-think the way that we were storing SlideDecks within WordPress. We were already thinking about making this change in the SlideDeck for WordPress plugin anyways and this incompatibility ended up moving the update right to the top of the list!
We are happy to announce that the SlideDeck for WordPress plugin now takes full advantage of custom post types in WordPress 2.7+. We no longer clutter up your database with our own custom tables and as a great side benefit we are now able to interact with the media upload/insert box in WordPress 3.0!
Upgrading is easy, just don’t forget to backup any modified skins before you upgrade. I recommend comparing side by side your modifications and the skin updates in this new version as we have improved some of the styling to prevent accidental theme overrides to the SlideDeck’s appearance. If you have made any skin modifications, just overwrite the new skin files with your updated skin files. We also look up old legacy SlideDeck IDs for any shortcode or template level implementations you have already done and automatically get the new, imported version of the SlideDeck – no need to go back and change anything!
Just update the plugin through your WordPress control panel if you are using the Lite version and we automatically import your legacy SlideDeck entries to the new storage format.
Download the new version of the plugin from the link you received in our update email and un-compress it to your plugin directory, overwriting the old files. After you have uploaded the new files, just deactivate and reactivate the plugin from your WordPress plugin control panel.
WordPress 3.0 compatibility isn’t our only change in this version. Check out some of the other features we’ve implemented:
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