We recently had a client whose CMS stopped saving data. We knew we hadn’t touched the code on it in at least a year, so it was a very strange situation. After poking around, googling incessantly and debugging a ton, we discovered that another developer who had been working on SEO modifications for them had created a .htaccess file that was wiping out all POST data sent to a index.php file — ANY index.php file. Our app was written in an older version of the Fusebox 3.0 framework for PHP and as such, everything is channeled through the index.php file in the CMS directory.
The fix? Adding a new .htaccess file into the CMS directory that turns off the Rewrite Engine did the trick.
We’ve just been informed that the JGS, Inc.Forward Thinking Museum, which Workshed helped to develop, has been nominated as one of five finalists in the SXSW Web Awards Art category! This is the big one, the hot tamale, the cream of the crop! We’re excited to have been a part of this project along with our friends and partners at MacTechHelp.com.
So everyone close your eyes, begin to chant whatever chant you desire, and think good thoughts for the Forward Thinking Museum. Nam myoho renge kyo… nam myoho renge kyo… nam myoho renge kyo…
That’s right folks, at the end of December, we’ll be moving into a new office space—just down the street from our current location. If you’ve been in Camas, you may remember Artistic Home and Garden. We’ll be taking over the front end of their space and making it into our own little Workshed haven as of January 1, 2009. Our new address will be:
421 NE Cedar St.
Camas, WA 98607
We’ll have the same old phone number and fax number, as well as the same PO Box address.
We hope you enjoy your new year as much as we plan to enjoy ours!
I wanted to take a moment out to shift focus from internal chest-thumping to a pet project one of our employees has been working on for some time, which has become an invaluable tool for many a web developer.
Oscar Godson, one of our designer/developer folks, has created his own web app called Project Deploy*. It’s a genius tool that speeds of the process of generating a ready-to-go web site framework so you can quickly get started on your new web project. Select a few radio buttons, choose your flavor of XHTML, set some more options and BOOM! there you go. Instant web site skeleton ready for the skinning.
Not only has he created a great tool, but he’s also gotten the traffic for Project Deploy* into the 35,000 rank on the Alexa index. A truly impressive feat that is further proof he had a great idea and ran with it.
While we don’t like to get all hoity toity around here, it’s getting hard to ignore the number of awards that have been given to projects with which we’ve been involved lately. It’s not like we’re out there begging for awards in the streets, but heck, if they keep giving them out, we’ll keep taking them!
This time, it’s the Zookbinders web site we developed on behalf of SDM Marketing, with the design provided by PBR Design. Workshed did all of the information architecture, wireframes, slicing, XHTML/CSS templates, SEO, Flash development, PHP development and custom CMS development (built on our very own Pegboard platform), as well as providing dedicated hosting services in our colocation facility.
The award was from the Summit International Awards — in the category of Emerging Media. The site was presented a Leader award. Of the approximately 700 entries from numerous countries only 12% earned recognition. There are 3 levels that were recognized: visionary, innovator and leader.
Workshed is extremely proud to have been a part of this project and thanks SDM Marketing, PBR Design and most importantly, the fine folks at Zookbinders for allowing us to be a part of it.
We just launched a new coordinated advertising campaign for Lacamas Community Credit Union. Titled the Better Match Campaign, it’s geared towards educating consumers about their offerings in an entertaining way, and ultimately increasing their membership. The campaign consists of a web site and four TV spots currently, but will be expanded to a print campaign and have additional TV spots added in the future.
The TV spots will be showing on KPTV (Fox 12) in the mornings, then across multiple cable channels on Comcast, such as TBS, USA, Food Network, Oxygen, Animal Planet, CMT, CNN, E!, FX, TRU TV, A&E and TLC.
The web site features the commercials, engaging copy and design style as well as a viral marketing-style Breakup Letter Generator, which consumers can use to break up with their current bank by e-mailing their customized breakup letter to one or more people.
Special thanks to Furman Pictures for their cinematography and editing contributions!
Check out the spots below and if you live or work in Southwest Washington, check out LCCU, too!
I wanted to take a moment out to shift focus from internal chest-thumping to a pet project one of our employees has been working on for some time, which has become an invaluable tool for many a web developer.
While we don’t like to get all hoity toity around here, it’s getting hard to ignore the number of awards that have been given to projects with which we’ve been involved lately. It’s not like we’re out there begging for awards in the streets, but heck, if they keep giving them out, we’ll keep taking them!