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Basic SEO Work
Just finished doing a basic SEO work package on an abstract artist website. Besides optimizing keywords and text, it included submitting the website to Google, Bing and Archive.org.
Trail Status 2 Started
Work has begun on Trail Status 2. No idea on release date yet. It will be much more advanced than the original. It is brand new, not an updated version of the original. It will have the ability to handle more trails rather than a set number. These are two screenshots...
New Website for the Utah Knights
The new Utah Knights of Columbus website went live a few days ago. Our software engineer volunteered to build this site. It replaces an older site built on a web builder with a new modern look. It is built on WordPress and has a calendar, full width image backgrounds...
Sundance Filmguide
While at the Sundance Institute, Chris worked on many projects including the Film Guide for the 2014 Sundance Film Festival which was written in PHP. Some of the work he did included: Updated import from a Filemaker database into the MySQL database the site used....
We Fix Sloppy Web Sites
Did you hire a webdesign company only to be disappointed by the results? Is the overall design good, but there's some parts that do not look or work right? Do you have something in your site, like this image that make you wonder "why"? Contact us and we can fix your...
Webdesign Coding Upgrade: Before and After
Keep Your WordPress Sites Updated
Recently there has been a lot of WordPress sites being hacked. There was a vulnerability that was revealed recently that would allow a hacker to gain control over the site. It was fixed in WordPress 4.2.1, but all earlier version are vulnerable. It's important to...
Spam In Your Google Analytics?
There is a growing problem for website today that use Google Analytics. Spammers have found a way to get their sites listed in your Analytics results. This can throw off your stats so it looks like you are getting more visits than you really are. There is a way to...
New Gear
Recently I upgraded my main computer to a new Toshiba laptop and my monitor to a 24" one and purchased a new BluRay drive for larger backups. The new computer is an overdue upgrade and much faster which will allow me to work even faster. The new monitor give me more...
New Name, New Site
My independent webdesign and programming work has been growing, so I decided to turn it into a business. I chose the name On the Grid Webdesign, because you want a website to be on the grid working for you even when you are not. This site now has its own domain and a...
Skiing and Boarding
Besides programming and working on websites, Chris also teaches alpine skiing and snowboarding at Park City Mountain Resort. It helps keep his life balanced...and is a fun job. He's certified to teach both skiing and boarding. Last time he checked, the resort had two...
Sundance Film Festival Film Guide
I've been working on the Film Guide for this year Sundance Film Festival. I've been involved in all parts of the programming from the export from Filemaker Scripts written in Groovy, to the importing to the SQL database, to the retrieving the data and displaying it,...
Cabin Fever Tahoe
Last week Chris launched a Magento ecommerce store selling high quality maps for hanging up on walls. We have worked on several Magento stores before, fixing problems, changing themes and adding products. This is the first one Chris built from the ground up including...
Beach Club Tahoe
I just finished a new Wordpress website using a custom built theme, based on the look of their old site. I moved over several flash objects and made sure their links still worked. It has 14 pages and does include a video on the aerial tour page. This website is for a...
Quick Update
I've been working at the Sundance Institute doing web and database programming. Most of the other stuff I've done the last two months have been small updates on websites I've built.
Finished the Magento Split
I finished up the splitting of the Magento stores with cleaning up each one and getting the opposite store's stuff cleared out. We waited a few days to make sure everything was good before the cleanup. Here's the two stores I was working on: KathySmith.com Affordable...