We went back and looked at WordPress recently. In a word, Wow! They have added the features we need to build fully featured corporate sites.

With the easiest user interface of the big three (Drupal, Joomla & WordPress), some unique design capabilities and a host of SEO plugins we are now adding WordPress as one of our primary tools for new site development.

As a design firm, a big deal to us is an add-on we found for our template development that allows for multiple template designs within the main theme. Between this add-on and some of the new WordPress header and background capabilities we are now developing site designs with the flexibility you would expect from custom pages developed in Dreamweaver.

We're also excited by some of the SEO and Google analytical plugins that are allowing for some very professional level site optimization as part of the original site develoment.

For more details on which site development tools would work best for you contact us today at 847.816.3444.

We've been looking around for a non flash player script that doesn't just look like a rotator. With a lot of code scripting we got one to have a lot of the look and feel of a nice flash presentation but does not require flash... phone friendly, user friendly and less server overhead. See an example at http://www.jelmar.com.

We still use flash were we need an interactive presentation and SWFObject lets us put up another presentation for non flash platform viewers but it's more work and can often be avoided with our new found technique.

We've moved most of our customer's videos to YouTube. By setting up separate accounts for each customer and using YouTube's player on your site you gain all the following benefits:

• Accommodate viewers with and without the flash player installed. This makes your videos playable on computers and nearly all mobile phones.
• Videos are delivered with real streaming qualities.
• Avoid the overhead of storing and delivering videos from your server.
• Enjoy the benefit of increased traffic linking to your site.

Of course, there are still times when your site page requires control over the video that using YouTube's player will not accommodate and we have multiple solutions for that as well.