Petersen Insurance Specialties Logo Design
This logo is derived from the Petersen family crest. The target demographic is entertainment industry individuals looking for specially tailored insurance plans and a personal touch. The logo needed to reflect the rich family history while still appealing to the demographic. The traditional shield was used along with more contemporary, stylized icons.
Changing Signup/Register Link in WordPress
This gets placed in your theme’s functions.php… ‘Signup’ is the text for the register link in this example. ‘Logout’ is the message displayed when the user is logged in. That could easily be a link to their profile or the admin area as well. add_action( ‘register’ , ‘register_replacement’ ); function register_replacement( $link ){ if (… Read More »
My Favorite and Most Used WordPress Plugins
login-lockdown – protect your neck nextgen gallery – great for internally managed photo galleries tubepress – let youtube handle the bandwidth and conversion please. eventsmanager (for RSVP type events) gigpress (for musician-style tours) capabilities manager – if you have multiple content editors with varying roles. Mail From – change the default from email address and… Read More »
Feedback Is Dead Flash Microsite Design
This was a promotional Flash-based microsite for the AKG D5 Microphone. The company needed the established design direction to come to life on the web. This Flash-based site utilizes a linear navigation scheme to give the user a complete experience and ensure that all of the information is viewed. This project involved design and development… Read More »
Sink Positive Logo Design
Sink Positive needed a simple logo that reflected the water-saving aspect of the product. A contemporary type treatment was used along with a drip element to represent the nature of the product.
SpenshaOnline.com Launches
This past weekend, Nashville Interactive launched SpenshaOnline.com; the online home of inspirational musical artist Spensha Baker. The website design and development was handled completely by Nashville Interactive and involved an open source content management system for flexibility.
Drinks Anyone? BoozeCampNashville.com Launches
For those Nashvillians who enjoy the finer side of spirits, there’s finally a group for you: BoozeCamp Nashville. What is BoozeCamp Nashville you ask? Well it’s a bit of an old-fashioned social network that revolves around great wine, liquor and beer. Events are held around Nashville at various venues and include tastings of great “adult”… Read More »
The Winstar Fantasy Derby Website Launches
Are you into horse racing and/or fantasy sports? If so you should check out the Winstar Fantasy Derby. Nashville Interactive handled the User Interface design and also had a hand in the development of the Fantasy Derby portion of the Winstar site.
Scripture-Lullabies.com Launches
The Nashville Interactive designed and developed scripture-lullabies.com has officially launched! This was a great project to work on. The site design is one that definitely made the web design portfolio and the development portion of the project is a perfect example of how open-source software allows for all the power and flexibility of a proprietary CMS.
Excerpts and Read More Links in WordPress 2.9+
With the release of WordPress 2.9, there have been a couple nice little enhancements to excerpts. It’s now very easy to change the good old […] to whatever you’d like including a simple “More” link that links to the post. It’s also now just as easy to control the length of the excerpts as well…. Read More »
Always Sisters Forever Brothers Website Launches
Nashville Interactive recently launched alwayssisterforeverbrothers.com. This site for the 2010 Always Sisters Forever Brothers Conference in Nashville, Tennessee proved to be a great project to work on. The site design awarded the opportunity to use some pretty cool javaScript and front-end development techniques.
Moving a WordPress Site
I love WordPress and I use it pretty much exclusively for small to mid-sized website development. WordPress development is quick, easy and website owners love the fact that there’s none of the complications that come with proprietary content management systems. Sometimes it becomes necessary to move your beloved WordPress sites to other servers or directories…. Read More »