Lincoln Loop

Bee Herz, Psychic Medium Site

November 17, 2007 | portfolio, wordpress | 3 comments

Our latest site launch was for Bee Herz, a local psychic medium. The elegant design was done by ashwebmedia with coding done here at Lincoln Loop.

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Goodbye WordPress, I'm Leaving You

August 31, 2007 | wordpress, django | Only one comment so far.

WordPress, you seemed perfect at first. You saved me lots of development time, seemed to have a plugin for everything I needed, and a user interface that was easy for anybody to use.

The honeymoon has worn off though. It seems more and more that while you come close, you and your plugins rarely meet my needs. I’ve wasted countless hours fighting to make you do things you just weren’t built to do.

And then there were the upgrades, oh the upgrades. It seemed like every other week I needed to install a new upgrade to make sure you were safe. With every upgrade, I had to make sure the countless plugins you required were all compatible. It all just feels like wasted time now.

I’ve been seeing someone else for a few months now and while it seemed like a harmless fling at first, it has ...

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Bear Lodge Site

August 24, 2007 | portfolio, wordpress | No comments yet.

Just put the final touches on www.bearlodgesteamboat.com. It is a WordPress site designed by ashwebmedia, then hand-coded into a custom WordPress theme at Lincoln Loop.

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Waterside Day Spa Site

June 1, 2007 | portfolio, wordpress | No comments yet.

The new Waterside Day Spa site is out the door. The site was built using WordPress as the backend CMS with a custom theme developed by myself and designed by the talented Derek Ashauer of ashwebmedia.

Overall, I’m very pleased with how this one turned out. The site really captures the look they were going for.

I was able to tweak the templates in WordPress to give them the sidebar menus found on many of the pages without compromising their ability to manage the content in-house. It was surprisingly simple. I’ll try to do a write-up on the technique I used here.

Some sIFR was thrown in to keep pretty headline fonts throughout the site. I also used javascript image replacement where appropriate. I’ll be posting soon on why I like javascript over some of the other image replacement techniques out there.

By using image replacement, Waterside ...

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The Victoria Site

April 12, 2007 | portfolio, wordpress | No comments yet.

I just wrapped up development on a website for The Victoria, a high-end mixed use development in downtown Steamboat.

Derek at ashwebmedia is the designer behind the site. It is the first work we’ve done together and he really nailed the elegant look we were going for. He was great to work with and I hope to be doing more work with him in the future.

I built the site using WordPress for the backend CMS. The frontend is all standards-based semantic XHTML/CSS with a little unobtrusive JavaScript flair thrown in courtesy of jQuery.

With IE6 on its way out the door, I felt comfortable using tranparent PNGs extensively across the site. It let me to separate the background image on each page from the logo, which not only made logical sense, but has some added benefits as well. The browser can cache the logo across the ...

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WordPress Plain Text Paste Plugin Version 0.3

January 25, 2007 | code, wordpress | 13 comments

Now compatible with WP 2.1!

Get it while it’s hot:

• NDS Paste 0.3 (gzipped tar)
• NDS Paste 0.3 (zip)

This plugin adds buttons to the WordPress rich text editor (TinyMCE) for pasting in clipboard content as plain text. Don’t trash your layout by pasting in text from Microsoft Word anymore.

Thanks to the TinyMCE paste plugin now being a part of the WordPress distribution, the plugin is now just one file. Extract nds-paste.php and upload it to your wp-content/plugins folder.
If you have a previous version of the plugin installed, delete the nds-paste folder from your plugins directory.

This plugin is only compatible with WordPress versions 2.1 and newer. Here is the 2.0x compatible version.

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Welcome Ella!

January 23, 2007 | wordpress | No comments yet.

WordPress released version 2.1 (aka Ella) yesterday with some really nice new features. This is a major version change, so we'll need to take our time rolling out the upgrade to our hosted WordPress installs, verifying plugin functionality along the way.

We’ll also be working on updating our very own plain text paste plugin to play nice with 2.1.

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Red Arrow Camp Site

January 2, 2007 | portfolio, wordpress | No comments yet.

Red Arrow Camp came to us to give their existing website a facelift. They were looking for a new design as well as a site that was easier to update and would allow them to showcase some of the great photos they capture every summer. Their new site, designed by Whole Studios, is appealing to prospective campers while maintaining functionality for parents, alumni, and employees.

The entire site is now a dynamic database driven content management system built upon WordPress that allows them to easily change and add content as necessary. We built a custom theme to allow pages to have multiple “parents” in the frontend. The Flash slideshows were done with Slideshow Pro, again allowing for easy management and updates by the owners.

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A New Look

November 28, 2006 | company news, wordpress | No comments yet.

We quietly rolled out a new design for our site last week. Ryan over at Whole Studios came through with a design and logo that fit us perfectly. Except for our Order and Support pages, the new site is 100% WordPress based. We created some custom plugins to make it all happen and we will be releasing them as open source in the near future.

In addition to the new design, we lowered our Postini pricing and increased our hosting package storage and monthly transfer allotments. These changes will be applied to all existing customers before the end of the year.

We’ve also moved network announcements to a new server in an offsite data center. This will allow us to keep you updated even in the unlikely event that services are unavailable here. It’s at status.lincolnloop.com, make sure to bookmark it. You’ll also find public ...

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WordPress Plain Text Paste Plugin

August 31, 2006 | code, wordpress | 49 comments

This plugin is currently incompatible with WP 2.1. I hope to update it shortly. Check back here for updates. Version 0.3 is compatible with WordPress 2.1

This plugin adds buttons to the WordPress rich text editor (TinyMCE) for pasting in clipboard content as plain text.

This solves the problem of users needing to paste Microsoft Word documents, web pages, or any other rich text content into a plain text editor such as notepad to strip out the HTML nasties that have a tendency to ruin a blog's layout. By using TinyMCE's "paste plugin":http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/tinymce/docs/plugin_paste.html, the plugin is smart enough to maintain some basic formatting.

Go ahead and take it for a spin. Extract nds-paste folder from the archive and copy it to wp-content/plugins.
nds-paste-0.2.zip
nds-paste-0.2.tar.gz

Developers note: You should be able to ...

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